Back then, every block had a DJ group.

In one high school, there would be two DJ groups, sometimes, more than that.

It was just such a groundbreaking thing to have that many DJ groups concentrated into one area.

The joke is, every Filipino family must have a DJ within two degrees of separation, I guess.

We weren't playing music that everybody played, that the radio played.

It was underground, post-disco music.

We then, put our little Filipino spin on things.

It was just pretty much, kids just getting together, and wanting to play music for people, and get everybody to dance, and we would bring the DJ equipment to the hall party, and have the party there, and have dances.

This is around 1982, Westmoor High School, Daly City, you and Mike Petricio, you guys were just starting as Fusion.

I remember being in the garage party, watching you guys, watching you guys mix, listening to music, like, "That's pretty cool."

Somebody came up to us and asked, "Hey!

Have you ever heard of two turntables and a mixer?"

We put two unmatched turntables together, and started trying to mix two songs together.

Didn't know what we were doing.

Then we finally got a real mixer, and that's when I started getting it.

The time that we did it, from 1983 til mid-1985, man, so many groups just sprouted out of nowhere, and these competitions where happening everywhere.

I go to one of the guys garages in Daly City.

The whole crew is already there.

So we tried something out.

We hooked up four turntables, right?

And, right off the bat, within an hour, he was throwing stuff in, I would put stuff in, and we're going back and forth, and it was that moment, that we were officially Spintronix.

# This is a test.

# Yo!

1-2-1-2!

Party people, in the place to be.

# We are Spintronix, from Daly City.

Yeah, I'll never forget the first time I heard four turntables.

I was like, "Wow!

How fast is that guy?"

Then I see two guys, each with two turntables, I thought that was amazing!

And we were battling on those things.

# Ladies and gentlemen # La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La... and gentlemen The battles back then, during the mobile Disc Jockey era, you would have, sometimes, three or four DJs, groups, in one hall, setting up their equipment.

We all kind of just saw each other were doing.

It just became a competition thing, too.

Like, "You DJ too?

I DJ too!

Well, I can be better than you!"

So, remember what all DJs used to do back then, is they had a secret weapon record.

They would put tape on the record.

They would cover the label, so that the 20 or 30 guys crowding you while you were DJ-ing, who was taking notes, wouldn't know what record you bought, and figure out what song it was.

Back then, there was no social media, there was no technology.

The only form of music back then was cassette tapes.

So, we would record our four turntable mixes.

Every member of the group would share it.

They'd go to school, or give it to their cousin.

And they would get re-recorded.

Next generation tape, next generation tape, and hand it out, and it would spread, whether it's Daly City, or outside of Daly City, just based on these cassette tapes.

I was always doing mobile gigs and then, my transition just became more into the battle scene.

We started doing a lot more scratching, a lot more tricks.

In '92, we won the DMC World Championship, with me Q-Bert and Mike.

We tried to form a rap-group, and be producers, and it kind of just transitioned into that phase of DJ-ing.

Maybe it was a way of guys staying out of trouble.

Maybe it's a different alternative to sports.

If you weren't into the gang scene, keep yourself busy while your middle class parents were at work in downtown San Francisco, or wherever.

Comin' down to the turntables, my son, ten-year-old, Jayden Anolin, AKA DJ ProteJay.

Well, I just thought it was a very unique skill.

No one in my school had it.

I'm the student to him, so we just added the, "Jay" in my name, Jayden, to make, "ProteJay."

And I just wanted to be like my dad, too.

I can be like him, or over him, over his level right now.

It had a great impact on the DJ-ing scene, the whole world, yeah.