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MENU: Hi Chris, I've known you since you were 16 and still at high school and I must say it's a pleasure to have you on board for the 1st Deja Vu gig in Auckland on Sunday the 23rd Oct.

CRISIS: That you have. Underage Crisis & Seb Wild sneaking into Christchurch clubs. Thanks for keeping us out of trouble!

MENU: Tell us a little bit on how you got into the DJ scene at such a young age?

CRISIS: There were 2 completely unrelated things that got me into it at about 13. One friend of mine’s older brother was about 16 or 17 and had just started DJing, and I witnessed that about the same time that a young Seb Wild introduced me to trance music. It’s a slippery slope.

MENU: In your own opinion what do you feel it takes to be a great DJ in the Auckland scene?

CRISIS: It comes down to your own unique mix of musical vision and technical ability; whatever interesting way you can express that. Then once you’ve produced those goods, you sell them; people knock networking and self-promotion sometimes, but it’s extremely beneficial.

MENU: You are into producing dance music, what styles have been coming out and any future releases we should be aware of?

CRISIS: I’ve actually just come back from what I would call six or so months of musical hibernation. I’ve got a few trance & hard tracks which I wanted to release last year but it never really came together, so those might make it to free download or something this year. I’ve also got another alias for alternative hip hop and house which I’m hoping to release an EP with sometime in the near future.

MENU: Where can we check out your sounds?

CRISIS: Soundcloud.com/djcrisisnz is where all my new Crisis material goes; but add me on Facebook at facebook.com/djcrisisnz.

MENU: You have always been quite a fanatic for Hard Dance but seen your style has changed over the years... how do you view the Hard Dance scene in Auckland?

CRISIS: Hard Dance is like a curse word sometimes. There’s a lot of negativity associated with it in the wider scene. But you can’t argue with its effect on a dancefloor. There’s a lot of potential value in Hard Dance; but the scene needs to innovate to unlock it.

MENU: Define Crisis and his sound and what do we expect to see at Deja Vu?

CRISIS: Tough, exciting dance music. I’ll be going for broke at Déjà Vu; trying to pull the rug out from under Auckland hard dance ha ha.

MENU: Thanks Chris… thanks for making Déjà Vu another unique event.

Catch Crisis at Deluxe Nigthclub 146 K’rd with supporting acts:
Charlotte Jones, D’vo, Malden, JayTee, Mrs Fish, Remarc, Gopal, Macnrow and Cyan