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Damian Higgins, better known by his stage name Dieselboy, is an iconic American drum and bass DJ, producer, and label head. In 2012, he acquired the nickname "The Destroyer".〔(Return of The Destroyer - Altered plans lead to Altered Thurzday, by butterfly_89000, www.indymojo.com, August 20, 2012 )〕 Dieselboy is known for tightly programmed and meticulously executed cinematic, themed drum and bass mixes,〔(amazon.com The Dungeonmaster's Guide customer reviews )〕 and for decimating dance floors through complex, textured, dynamic, intense live mixing of state-of-the-art drum and bass. Since December 2013 he has been performing his sets on four CDJ's.〔(Dieselboy Facebook bio (accessed 5/18/2014) )〕 Dieselboy is the founder of the Human Imprint music label (drum and bass) in 2002, and co-founder of its sublabel SubHuman : Human Imprint (dubstep, electro) which launched in September 2010. In February 2012, Higgins co-founded Planet Human as the umbrella label for Human Imprint and SubHuman.〔http://www.controlfreqradio.com/blog/2012/dieselboy Control Freq Radio Dieselboy Interview by Synba, August 26, 2012〕〔https://www.facebook.com/planethuman?sk=info〕 Dieselboy was the first American to be voted into the UK-based Drum & Bass Arena Top 10 DJs 2004 online poll, and has played events on six continents. He was also the first drum 'n' bass artist to chart a single on ''Billboards dance chart with ''Invid'' in 2000. (Source: The Washington Post) Dieselboy is sponsored by DC Shoes and Pioneer PRO DJ. Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, Dieselboy has also performed at rock festivals and extreme sports exhibitions. Dieselboy tracks have been heard on MTV and ESPN, and in videogames. Higgins has also designed graphics for T-shirts, logos, fliers, buttons, CD's and record sleeves. Dieselboy is represented by Circle Talent Agency. An uncredited sample Higgins created for an intro for a New Year's Eve show in Los Angeles – "Ladies and gentlemen ... it's time to get fucking grimey!" – was used in Joe Manganiello's solo dance scene in ''Magic Mike'' as heard in the film's Blu-ray+DVD release. Higgins has been interviewed about his passion for food 〔()〕 and began writing about food for FirstWeFeast.com in 2012.〔()〕 He was selected as a presenter for the 7th Annual StarChefs.com International Chefs Congress (ICC) held September 30 to October 2, 2012, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. 〔http://www.starchefs.com/cook/events/icc/2012/ICC-2012-presenter?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_capaign=2012-icc-presenter〕 ==Biography== Dieselboy was born Damian Higgins in Tarpon Springs, Florida in 1972. At the age of six he moved to Rye/Colorado City, Colorado, where he and his two sisters were raised by their mother (1st - 8th grades). He moved with his family to Oil City, Pennsylvania, on the third day of school in the 9th grade, and is a graduate of Oil City Senior High School. He is the eldest son of singer/songwriter Bertie Higgins whose ballad ''Key Largo'' reached #8 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 1982. In April 2009, Higgins married his long-time girlfriend Ramie Roth. Higgins's early music experience included playing drums in a school marching band and DJing for high school dances. "I originally started DJing (before learning to beatmatch) back in 1989 and 1990 at dances at Oil City Senior High School and also a small nightclub in Franklin, Pennsylvania, called Shenanigans. I DJ'ed three of my high school's dances, but I was just playing tunes, not mixing." Higgins is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he gained additional DJ'ing experience (particularly in beat-matching records) playing on a Carnegie Mellon University radio station (WRCT). The name Dieselboy originated from Higgins's Internet chat handle, "Diesel." Upon discovering a local graffiti artist shared the alias, he "made it Dieselboy. Back then I looked like a kid - I was 19, but I looked like I was 14. It also reflected my interest in video games and animation." Higgins moved to Philadelphia in 1997 to become the drum 'n' bass buyer and sometime T-shirt designer for 611 Records owned by Nigel Richards. From 1998 to 2004 Higgins hosted the seminal weekly drum & bass club night Platinum at Fluid nightclub.〔(Farewell to Fluid, the Philly Nightclub where Questlove, Dieselboy and Countless DJs held Court, by Tara Murtha, Philadelphia Weekly, March 5, 2013 )〕 On March 7, 2013 Higgins announced a final Platinum "smashdown" saying: "I used to run a 21+ drum and bass weekly in Philadelphia from 1998 - 2004 called Platinum. It was somewhat legendary. Some of my favorite memories of DJing are from that night. Recently I found out that the club I used to throw the event at, Fluid, is closing down. Most of the people that had nights at Fluid are now throwing one last show as a send off for the club. On March 27 we are doing one final Platinum night to say goodbye. It is going to be fucking insanity. Almost every resident DJ we had is going to be there (myself, Mason, Karl K, Sine, Kaos, Method One, Icon) and all of your resident MC's (Messinian, Armanni, Sharpness, Illy). If you love drum and bass, you absolutely do not want to miss this show. Our "final" show from 2004 is legend. Be a part of this one." 〔(Final Platinum announcement on Facebook, accessed March 8, 2013 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dieselboy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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