Ive been vinyl DJing since 1999, tinkering with production from 1998 using a vile music rif based software called music 98 on the playstation 1, i got involved in using full studio software suites to produce - back in the day when the UI wasnt very user friendly and it wasnt about making everything into DLC like it is now. i learned by messing- i didnt understand a thing by reading it so i just explored with my ears and hands. i was given a voluntary job shortly after working in major radio, which went out to three major hospitals. unfortunatly i was given the shove after 6 weeks due to being non verbal which they had known about and well i gather its kind of a big draw back to radio DJing, but i had a co DJ who was the speaking person-i knew what i was doing with the mixing desks,the 1200s,the CDs and even oldskool tape decks they had in there.   

i was not that long after-moved into residential care for adults with complex autism and intelectual disability (otherwise known as learning disability,in the UK) ,so i was quite rightly not allowed any equipment in my bedroom as its always had ended up trashed. i had developed severe tinnitus and profound hyperacusis, from the amount of head banging i did without my padded helmet, so  i coudnt have done it anyway.  years later, i was given sensory integration therapy while locked up in a learning disability hospital and this had helped me start coping with music and tv sound again so i began listening to music and started doing digital DJing via asoftware called mixxx, which has left absolutely trashy drivers on my laptop so i continuously now get blue screens of death.

i then moved onto virtual DJ using the pro mode, and then bought a pioneer REV-1 DJ controler i use serato pro,otherwise if im not able to hold my flightcase on my knee i use virtual DJ with a fab gaming mouse called the roccat kone XP (no,nothing to do with windows XP). i do a mix whenever i can afford music, this is just my own personal view on myself but i dont ever want to get music via unpaid means because its stealing from an artist and label.

I had developed brain injurys threw my lifelong epilepsy and this is where it kinda got a bit murky, it has destroyed my memory so everything i ever learned about DJing, and production i have had to start over and i now also constantly forget while in the middle of mixing for example. thats why i liked virtual DJ as it shows you what track youve just played which for me was a means of acesibility and not just a convenience.

so during every mix im having to relearn as i go along and im hoping at one point itll go into my long term memory and ill no longer have to map everything out.