{"id":2,"date":"2006-11-15T07:21:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T07:21:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-01-29T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T20:34:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/derek-sanders.net\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About &#038; Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first experience with Trance roughly a decade ago while I was in my infancy of the browsing the web.  I came accross a song that struck me in a way I had never experienced with music.  The song was Flaming June by BT, and it was the very awesome BT versus Paul Van Dyk Remix.  I didn&#8217;t get into Trance at that time, but always kept the sound as a forethought in my mind.  I eventually moved onto college and got access to some of my first DJ mixes.  The earliest that I can remember was a promo mix from Mili Sefic, who my brother had managed to pickup in a mall near Chicago, IL.  You can find that very mix <a href=\"http:\/\/derek-sanders.net\/?p=56\">here<\/a>.  From there I moved onto listening to the Tunnel Trance Force volumes.  I eventually got to the point where I wanted to make my own mixes in order to sufficiently control the energy.  Not having any money at the time I got into using some basic software to do very basic fades between songs, and that is where I began my DJing career.  I eventually moved onto using Pioneer CD decks, and it wasn&#8217;t until 2006 where I began to actually get good with mixing songs.  I currently do a lot of individual mixes and some internet radio shows, but my ultimate goal is to eventually get out of the bedroom and into clubs. <\/p>\n<p>Favorite Producer: Suncatcher<br \/>\nFavorite DJ: Mili Sefic<br \/>\nFavorite Song: BT &#8211; Flaming June (PvD vs BT Remix)<\/p>\n<p>Equipment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 x Pioneer CDJ-900 CD Decks<\/li>\n<li>Pioneer DJM-400 2 Channel Mixer<\/li>\n<li>Apple MacBook Pro<\/li>\n<li>M-AUDIO Audiophile USB<\/li>\n<li>Sony MDR-V700 Headphones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Professionally I work as a computer scientist and researcher.  I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, a Masters of Software Engineering, and a Bachelors of Wireless Engineering from Auburn University, Auburn, AL.<\/p>\n<p>You can e-mail me at info @ derek-sanders.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first experience with Trance roughly a decade ago while I was in my infancy of the browsing the web. I came accross a song that struck me in a way I had never experienced with music. The song was Flaming June by BT, and it was the very awesome BT versus Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derek-sanders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derek-sanders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derek-sanders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derek-sanders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derek-sanders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/derek-sanders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"https:\/\/derek-sanders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derek-sanders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}