The story in short: ”...September 2006 – toby (aka dj snige) has recently graduated in Digital Media Production and is sat at his desk in his old job doing temp work as a data administrator in South London. Bored as hell, he runs his daily check of the D&BA forum. ‘Work Experience/Internship at D&BA’ he reads. Apply! ... September 2006 – 2 weeks have passed. Back at his desk Toby checks his email to see he’s been invited for an interview. ‘Rinse-Out’ he thought… October 2006 – interviewed by two scary girls in a basement room. He can only hope it went well!... one week later and the carrier pigeon has brought me good news, an offer of 3 months assisting the video production team and helping on new web projects… January 2007 – Permanently moves into the tecnical/development team as he’s taken on full time as web architect / digital producer. Snige was only too happy to oblige…”
My biggest project to date has to beDrum & Bass Arena Download, live now for just over 2 months and growing in users every week. Regular meeting reviews ensure we get the biggest tracks and contantly improve usability of the site. Back in the day (erm, November 2006) planning got underway. It all started with research… and lots of it! I’ve interrogated more download sites than the amount of times Mampi Swift has double dropped “The One”. But hey, this is a massive part of my job in any new project we take on, which then leads to the interactive design (what happens when a link is clicked) and information architecture (how everything is organised). All the info is then passed on to our designers and developers who go on to bulid the site. I love the finished product. There were positive implications from the start of course – only one genre of music meaning very simple top level navigation. And of course D&BA’s vibrant community. Big up yourselves!
Next up for me: Functionlaity spec for Drum & Bass Arena Upload. Host your mixes and sell your own tracks from your very own Drum & Bass Arena artist page. It’s gonna be big, believe! DnB Networking with a central profile to host all your media. Even if you don’t make tunes, this is where you’ll be able to upload your sets and have them streamed and/or downloaded from your profile. How many of you upload your mixes to a generic hosting site and then paste the link in to the forum? Well we wanna change all that and give you the complete media hosting package. Are you producing tracks? Upload your music, set the price and track order numbers from one platform. Furthermore, a great way for all D&B heads to listen to an array of unsigned tracks and mixes from one place.
Anything else? Well yeh,like many of you guys I am a dj myself. Moving to London has really been good for the opportunities in the last 3 years. You can catch me B2B with Aggers & the drum & bass showcase in D&BTV now!
And so the Drum & Bass Arena Blog is born.
I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how this is going to begin.
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