I want to thank everyone that helps me promote my site & mixes online. It has always been a dream of mine to be heard all over the world. I am currently being aired on multiple online radio stations. I'm also being aired on radio stations around the USA, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Japan, Netherlands and who knows were else my mixes have reached. I checked the stats today of my "Baila Reggaeton CD" it has been downloaded over 1.2 million times, WOW!!! All I can say is, thank you. Keep spreading my mixes, keep emailing the mix links to all your friends, keep burning and giving away CD copies of all my mixes to everyone you know!
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The story behind "Baila Reggaeton" CD
"Baila Reggaeton" was never going to be released. It was a mix made to prove to myself I could still make some hot mixes. Back in early 2004 the Reggaeton craze was spreading like fire! I knew that DJ's would start putting out some Reggaeton mix CDs. Being away from the DJ scene for over 6 years I decided to visit one of the local Chicago mix shops. I was surprised to see my "Sad Girl Freestyle" CDs being sold especially when I have not pressed them in years. Aside from that I was asked when in the world was I going to release all my old mixes. I briefly mentioned I was doing some research on Reggaeton music and the mixes out there. They right away gave me 5 CDs that were from the most popular Reggaeton DJs from Chicago and had the hottest selling Reggaeton mixes out. As soon as I jumped in my ride I popped them in 1 by 1. I was disgusted by how these mixes sounded. Like Shit!!! All the blends were off, no breaks, all the blends had music over music without harmonic blending and it sounded like a Mexican band off tune!!! I was embarrassed to say that these new DJs now represent Chicago even the old school DJs Reggaeton mixes were garbage. I thought to myself, these new cats have no respect for the art of mixing, no respect for the history of Chicago DJs. I called one of my friends DJ Suevecito and mentioned to him what I had just heard, he commented that that's the way all Reggaeton mixes were done. I did some research online in hopes to find a mix that was produced properly. I found Reggaeton DJs from all over the world and listened to there mixes, they were all garbage. I found one of the most popular DJs, DJ Casanova. I could not believe my ears this guy is suppose to be the best Reggaeton DJ in the world, he should have been embarrassed with the mix that I heard, my mother could make a better mix than that and she's never DJed in her life. His producing of Regaeton songs were the shit, but his mixes were shit meaning garbage!!! Now I knew right there and then I had to make a stand not for me but for the art form of making a mix. I did more research on the background of Reggaeton and how it evolved from Spanish Reggae from artist like El General etc.. I did not know anything about Reggaeton other than it was hot I knew it was about to explode into the mainstream worldwide. I started asking people online if they knew anything about it. Some how in a chat room on AOL I ran into this girl from Elgin IL., now my friend Jenny and she knew everything about it. Without knowing me I invited her over to my house so I could listen to her CDs, She had every new Reggaeton Album out. I was in Reggaeton heaven. She let me borrow all her CD's. I made a mix just for fun. I let Jenny listen to it she said "the mix was ok". I was like OK! Yes the Juan Too Big Perez ego came out. I was like I am one of the most known & best DJs in Chicago. She said to me "I never heard of you before", Yes I got a reality check, I was one of the most popular DJs in Chicago! I was on a mission from that point on to turn her into a Juan Too Big Perez fan. So I did what I have been doing for 6 years nothing...LOL. A few months later my friend DJ Suavecito had me listen to a mix he had just made. I listened and I was impressed, that mix was pretty good for being blended the wrong way it had a good song selection. I encouraged him to put out the mix, I even named the CD for him it became his first release "Suaveton" Reggaeton Mix. I even went to the stores with him to distribute the CD. Yes the owners bugged me again, when was I going to re-release all my old CDs. While helping Suevecito for a couple of weeks, I decided to listen to more mixes from other DJs around Chicago, yes they were all still garbage. One day while being online one of my DJ2BIG.COM message board members Kkrayzie said to me that people around Chicago were saying that I sucked that I was done, it was over for me. I got pissed. Now that's when I got off my ass and started to make a mix to prove to myself I still had it. I got the hottest sounding Reggaeton songs I could find, songs that sounded like people would not get bored of hearing over and over again. I also grabbed some the all time highest selling Reggaeton songs and made a mix. The mix was not completed though, it needed an intro. I listened to all my old freestyle intro mixes like the "Freestyle Mania 3", "Sad Girl 2, 4, 5", "Untouchables House & Freestyle Mix", Yes I needed inspiration. I then called one of my DJ students DJ Boi Jeanius and had a conversation with him about CPU programs to make break beats. My sampler key board was out of commission for not being turned on in 6 years and I needed to make Reggaeton break beats in order for this mix to be properly produced. He said to me that he used fruityloops, I had no idea what the heck that was...LOL, he said he could make a few Reggaeton break beats for me. The next day he gave me a CD with over 30 short Reggaeton break beats. Boi Jeanius asked, what I needed them for? a lesson I later gave to him by the way I also made up his DJ name Boi Jeanius. I began to make my intro. It took me about 2 weeks to perfect my intro. I then re-edited the mix and perfected all the blends with those Reggaeton break beats. The mix was complete I thought. I must of heard that mix 500 times, I went over to the mix shop inside of North Riverside and let them hear my intro. They went crazy the owner ordered 500 copies, I said to him right away this mix will not be released. He offered me a lot of money for the master I refused. I left the store and Nas called me 5 min later and said Juan you need to put out that mix. laughing I said "I am retired I am done". That is when it dawned on me, Kkrayzie my member from my message board was right, "I was done, it was over for me", then the reality check I got from Jenny hit me again. Right there and then I called Ryan B owner of energy Thursdays and one of the best graphic artist that I know. I set an appointment to make a cover for my mix. He was even excited that I was going to release a new CD. I went back into the studio and tweaked out the intro added the drops said a few things in the beginning "I'm the nika that changed the game and im about to do it again" translation: a lot of the things you hear in Chicago DJ mixes today I originated. The bad ass intros with movie clips, kool ass art work covers, slow song at the end which is my signature endings etc. and this time I was going to do it again with the way this mix was produced, clean edits, perfect blends my signature slow song ending and a bad ass intro something no one in the Reggaeton DJ market worldwide had ever done. That's the way it happened. "Baila Reggaeton" CD was officially released December 29, 2004. Since then all Reggaeton DJ mixes from Chicago have now improved. DJs are now using Reggaeton break beats, even while mixing live at clubs. DJ Casanova mixes are now highly improved somewhat. DJ Suavecito is working on "Suaveton Reggaeton 3" I heard it already its hot. Boi Jeanius can now out scratch me, in fact now I will be taking scratching lessons from him, he aslo is now part of the infamous Henchmen. "Baila Reggaeton 2" will be released this year 2007. I still have not heard a better intro than the one I made for "Baila Reggaeton".
I want to thank everyone mentioned earlier. Jenny from Elgin, DJ Suavecito, Boi Jeanius, Ryan B, Nas and Kkrazie from the DJ2BIG.COM message board for all your help and word of encouragement. Ultimately I thank God Almighty for the talent and gift that he has given me of producing the best mixes in the world.
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