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Welcome to Atlanta!
And also the new online home of Kai Alcé. As you can see we still have some work to do so please bare with use, we are building the site as fast as we can.
Peace
Kai
Hello
Saturday, March 11, 2006
As I've always let the music speak for itself, I've also found that there are fewer ears catching the sound. So I felt a need to express my thoughts and feelings with those who are listening, and to hear what they have to say. Which brings us here to the new addition to my site. As many know me from Detroit, many know me from Atlanta and in still many still do not know Kai Alce. This is my way to give back presently what I get in the present. My bio gices a brief description of what I've been thru in the past and through this blog page I will speak further on some of those experiences as well as speak on what I see now and for the future.
Now where do I start...
New York, living in Queens, Flushing born to Haitian parents I've always been a foreigner. Growing up listening to calypso, native Haitian music and my father's love for jazz. I was also surrounded by the disco element of the city and the local skating rink, while also experiencing the birth of Hip Hop. So my love of music came in many different facets. Which translated into me being in charge of the music at any one of my parents many parties in our two bedroom apartment, i.e. the DJ (who would of thought).
Then moving to Detroit from New York in 1980 I found myself in a new place that ha d nothing to do with where I had just come from, a foreigner again. Although Detroit was breeding they're idea of house as house was not existence and having the benefit of an older sister I got to see things at an early age. Detroit was quite different in the fact that many of functions that generated the sound we now know as Detroit were put on by high school students. For instance classic electro track know as Charivari by A Number of Names was one them hiring such jocks as Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Ray Berry to DJ these functions. Just as I left New York I caught the buying vinly bug so I quickly found the one store that dedicated itself to promoting the new which was store called Buy Rite which also doubled as the main distributer of the Detroit sound as well as all the the music coming from Chicago and overseas. By 83 I bought my first set belt drive tables and numark DJM 500 mixer. From that point on I seemed to be obssed with putting the music of the day together which was was not limited to house disco but also the electro, and even the hip hop.
After being pushed by friends who had heard some of my tapes I began playing some gigs in the neighborhood, and also throwin some cool parties at ny house when my parents were conviently out of town. Then in my sophomore year I went to an unnamed party thrown by unknown to me a distant cousin Chez Damier, Alton Miller and George Baker which would soon become the Legendary Music Institute. As the Music Institute were looking for it's collective I went down to aquire a position. Luckily I got the position as coat check, light boy and whatever else they needed. The next two years of my life at the MI would be the one of the most influential aspects of my life.
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KAI ACE! What DOU! U know who it is. "What's up with that MoodyMann?" U should know now. Glad to see U in space. U should think of streaming from your site.
Peace D
2:30 PM
I love this dude.
8:38 PM
so what is up with mjq ??
5:09 PM
Dude got TALENT!!! The energy, the vibes, the flow, you are too smoooooth for words. Especially when your glasses are almost to the tip of your nose and you are still spinnin. LOL You know what I am talkin bout.
LOVE YOU MAN!!!
laMaitresse of House (Myspace)
5:58 AM
Hey,
Your mixes are dope,we really dig this deep stuff.
Right down woth Detroit.
Love
9:25 PM