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empire x
12+ albums
darkstepDrum and bassdarkAlldnb
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Derrick "EMPIRE X" Murph, Was born in Sarasota FL. where he was raised into a family of musicians and music producers by a Mother well known for her talents as a singer. Derrick began making music at an early age where he gathered pencils and cans and beat away to make the rhythmic sounds of drums. At the age of 15 he was putting on live shows for young audiences rapping and rhyming lyrics at venues with a group of teenage performers called The Last Boyscouts. This was just the beginning of X many musical talents. Since the day he was old enough to realize the "art" of music, X knew he had something in him musically that he was not going to let be unheard or unknown. He was introduced into the Breakbeat scene originally where he found himself Break dancing to a beat that he loved. He met a local DJ in 1993, Chad Allen that caught his interest. X found himself very intreagued with the ability a DJ had to capture the mind, body and soul of every person in the club by spinning vinyl and performing talents that he never knew existed in a DJ. He started his quest practicing at his cousins? loft on two turntables spinning Hip-Hop. Day and night he was working at building something for himself, a name as a DJ. Soon after starting with Hip-Hop he realized it wasn?t the genre he wanted to focus on. His main focus became Breakbeat.(Thanks to mike & Charlie M.A.C.) In 1994 he started spinning out at clubs and parties turning out Breakbeat records like he never thought he could. After a
