The System

Dj Leroy West

In the middle of the summer of 2004, he started to learn the trade from then New York deejay Tommy 'T'. By February of the following year he started playing fulltime gigs at Sly Bar, formerly known as NOCA, and continued to do so up until the lounge closed it doors in June of 2006.

The last Sly Bar jam was a success, but inevitibly life soon changed, for in late December 2005 he met his Swedish girlfriend, and decisions had to be made.

While visiting Sweden before the eventual and final move in November of 2007, he met up with Dj Babydoll, a resident hiphop deejay in Malmo. True to her word, when he finally arrived in Malmo, they collaborated for a hiphop session at Volym.

Shortly after that gig, he landed a monthly resident spot at a lounge right across the street from Volym, Metro. This is where he had an opportunity to showcase his hiphop to dancehall transitions, featuring old school and new school tracks, mixed, chopped and blended.

Unfortunately, it was decided West's uptempo style of mixing was too much for that particular venue, and ties to the lounge were severed four months later, in April 2008.

Since then, West has been missing in action, possibly to make a come back, but will for sure need a venue where real mixing skills, and not just good music selection, will be appreciated and earn him the due respect. After all, anyone can pick good tracks, but can they really mix and blend?