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Quick
Facts About EXT:
-
Full name is Christopher Robert Ferry.
- Born on February 13th, 1974 in Meadville PA. (Aquarius)
- Went to Catholic School for 8 years.
- Has been DJing since he was 15 years old.
- Was part of a rap duo in high school (Chump C & Juice T).
- Attended classes in Music Engineering & Production at Penn
State.
Past
Shows:
Circuitry
Divine - Indianapolis - 2000
"---???---" - Ft. Wayne
- 2000
Rebirth 303 - South Bend - 2000
Phunk X-Mas - South Bend - 2000
California Dreamin - South Bend -
2001
Bangin' The Decks 1 - South Bend
- 2001
More Than Corn - Merrilville - 2002
First Aid - South Bend - 2002
Bring Da Funk - Elkhart - 2002
From early childhood, Chris was exposed to music in wide varieties
from his parents. His father played guitar and keyboard by ear,
which Chris would always listen intently to well into the night.
With a wide ranging music collection in the house at all times
he was exposed to everything from Bluegrass, Rock, Pop, Soul,
Jazz, Funk, Electronic (Kraftwerk in those days) on down to Country,
and Classical. By the early 80s he had a good foundation in music,
then came the Breakdance era, a new style of music and culture
that he immediately latched on to. Chris would hear and copy mix
tapes made by DJs in New York that would filter into his town
through friends. He stayed up late on weekend nights trying to
bring in a radio show out of Cleveland, Ohio: the Friday night
"Clubstyle Show" on 107.9 FM. Chris instantly became
fascinated with DJs mixing and scratching.
By
the age of 15, he was putting together his own DJ setup and collecting
records. Within a year he was Djing and working with rap groups
in the neighborhood. At 16, he got his first residency at a local
teen club (Razzies) spinning on weekends. For the next couple
of years, he spent time making tracks for rap groups and Djing
under the name of "Extempore Productions". By 17, he
was spinning each weekend at three different clubs (The Cowshed,
The Breakaway, Ty's Club) and doing house parties in and around
his hometown of Meadville, PA on a regular basis. He would do
occasional club spots all around the Northwestern PA/Ohio region
as well. Chris spent some time sharing a radio show with a friend
at the local college (Allegheny's WARC 90.3 FM) mixing hip-hop.
At 18, Chris moved to West Palm Beach Florida and lived there
for about a year doing gigs and soaking up the Miami sound.
In
1992, he moved to South Bend, Indiana and settled in. Having been
highly influenced by the work of Cameron Paul (Mixx-It Remix Co.),
he began building his studio up to do remixing and production.
Over the span of 7 years he DJ'd, sold remixes to a couple remix
services, made tracks of his own, and worked with several local
artists producing tracks and remixes. In 1999, he held a spot
on WSMK 99.1 FM, mixing on the "Saturday Night All Request
Party". The summer of that same year, he was introduced to
the rave scene and instantly fell in love with it! The appreciation
of the DJ within this culture was exactly what he had been searching
for. By the summer of 2000, he was making pathways into the rave
scene as a DJ under the name of "EXT", a snip of his
production work: Extempore Productions. Over the next 2 years,
he met many new people, making connections and friends and played
at various shows around the Midwest from Indianapolis to Ft. Wayne
and around the South Bend area. Chris is now making efforts to
put together his own tracks and release them full scale in the
next year.
