While perusing through a music store with a couple of his Jamaican DJ friends, SMOOTHY spied out this little audio unit called a Roland MC303. Both his buddies knew what it was , but this was new to him. After being just flabbergasted by what it could do, and seeing that it was on clearance SMOOTHY bought it. 

“I took it home and couldn’t stop messin’ with it. I would end up playing some small venues/gatherings and not much more. I would eventually outgrow the little unit and sell it to some young buck who wanted to play house parties”.

At about the same time, SMOOTHY became increasingly disturbed by the lack of morals in the music industry and even more disturbed that Christ Followers were listening to music that he considered filthy and vain.

“That’s when I got the bug and went totally digital. I started buying loop-packs and VSTs, ASTs (anything I could get my hands on. I had a DJ background when an unbeliever, so it just kind of fit when I started pumping out songs.”

A bit of a closet metal head, I produced a whole Industrial/electronica metal album, vocals and all, only to lose three years work in a computer crash (and no back up!). Lesson learned.”

“An identity is what I’ve fumbled with as I made music. I went totally electronic (non-metal) under the name DJgSmoothy.”
“Then I changed the name to The New Amalgamation of Sound. Then I went back to DJgSmoothy. After fifteen songs on and off Spotify, I went back to my roots and reclaimed the name the Jamaicans used to call me: SMOOTHY.”

“I make music now to move you, and as I do there may be more than one genre per song. I’ve got a ton of officially unreleased stuff on SoundCloud at the moment. I like that my music doesn’t really fit just one style. I’d hate to become a sellout and make something that sounds like everything else out there.”

(SMOOTHY is a Pastor who is originally from Western Canada; raised by a Canadian father and an Australian mother. He now lives in Southern Texas with his wife and three crazy teenage kids.)