DJs Make the World Go 'Round - James E
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- January 20, 2006

If there is anything I love more than electro itself it is the way James E mixes it together.
Vancouver residencies (past and present)?
Mostly afterhours stuff. The only real club stuff would be Sky Bar. And then millions of afterhours (Gorgomish, Boutique, Broadway & Manitoba) and parties. This was our third year doing the Spanish Banks parties. Right now I'm with Tight Afterhours.
First introduction to music?
Everything came from my older brother. I remember in 1986, when I was ten years old, we came to visit my mum here in Vancouver and we got to sit in the studio all summer and see Loverboy record their album Gettin' Lucky and that's when I really started to like music.
Favourite all time party/set in Vancouver (doesn't necessarily have to be yours)?
It was a set that me and Norrie tagteamed at Super Nova (2003) and we just destroyed that party. It was good times.
Are you happy with the Vancouver scene?
I wish it was bigger and more glamorous but I'm all right with it, I guess. I kind of wish it was bigger, but who wouldn't?
Why do you reckon the scene is smaller than other cities of Vancouver's size?
I think we've got more talented DJs here. We've got a lot of talent here so I think that makes a lot of people and their immediate crews more snobby towards other parties. Just too much talent in this city is killing it. Like, when RC was telling me that in Phoenix there were only three or four DJs in the whole city for years, that was it, that's why they would have these huge parties all the time. We have so many fucking DJs here it's hard for other DJs to go to other DJs' gigs and support other scenes and other types of music.
What makes Vancouver the best city EVER?
Just living downtown. If you go to downtown Calgary it's just office buildings but we live downtown here and it's beautiful.
Would you relocate as a DJ?
And start over? If I had already been playing somewhere else I would. I would just for a bit, at least, to check out the scene there. But I could never start over, from scratch. I can't go through the years of going out, I don't have that type of energy anymore. When you start fresh you have to go out and promote yourself and be at all the events. I couldn't do that again.
Anything to add?
No.









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Not many DJs get off their arseholes and actually make things happen…most just hand off a couple demos and wait for the phone to ring. Not only has James matured into a solid party-rocking DJ with impeccable taste in music, he’s one of the few proactive movers and shakers. Past differences aside, I think James deserves the utmost respect for what he brings to the Vancouver underground scene. Respect.