JOURNEY FROM DJ TO MUSIC PRODUCER
Darrin Swafford aka Deleswa founded Deleswa Productions in 2010. He is an artist and music producer from Ohio with over 15 years of experience in music production, who specializes in diverse hip hop beats and melodic instrumentals.
Deleswa's work ranges from writing and composing to mixing, mastering and music production. He is self-taught on the piano, drums, and bass guitar, but creates most of his music using hardware, standalone sampler workstations and his DAW of choice.
Deleswa's style and inspiration were influenced by years of listening to various types of music and experiencing cultures from around the world during his work, life and travels.
Deleswa makes his beats available for licensing from his website for creatives such as singers, rappers, poets, spoken-word-lyricists, and dancers. And since becoming a member of ASCAP, he now has aspired to not only support the creative community, but to also get music placements for gaming, commercial television and film production.
Stepping back into the 80's, Darrin started his musical journey as a young teen, making pause mixtapes for friends in his neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. This hobby quickly evolved into a passion by the age of 15, when he decided to link up with a friend known as DJ Shiek to become a Street DJ. After graduating from High School and enlisting in the military, Darrin had the opportunity to join forces with New York based DJ crews "Top Secret Productions" and later "Trak II Productions" as Scratch Master "D", spinning vinyl in nightclubs during his time in Korea. This was a challenge at first given Darrin's prominent exposure and inspiration for oldschool hip hop such as Mantronix, Doug E Fresh, The Fat Boys, Dana Dane, Roxanne Shante, and many others. This was because of the need to play more of a variety to include RnB, Pop, and House music relevant during that time within the club scene. Afterwards, Darrin decided to switch it up to pursue his passion of becoming a well respected music producer, starting out with only a Tascam 4-Track Cassette Recorder, a Yamaha X3500 keyboard, and later an Alesis SR-16 Drum Machine and Korg N264 keyboard workstation. Little did he know this was the beginning of what would later become known as Deleswa Productions. Additionally, during the span of time from 1992 to 2016, after Darrin recommitted his life to Jesus Christ; he volunteered a significant amount of time toward worship services, including music workshops and concerts, all while serving as the lead Bassist for 2 churches in Korea, 3 churches in the United States of America, and 1 church in Italy.
Currently, Deleswa produces and drops new beats on a regular basis to continue building his sound library, while striving to improve and learn new techniques to help evolve his musical sound and style. This includes occasional collaboration with other artists and producers to help keep the interest of music alive across social networks, while building strong relationships with others who share a common interest and love for music.
If you are interested in learning more about Deleswa, we invite you to connect with and follow him via the social networks he is a part of. Also, if you would like to stay informed about new beats and promos, feel free to subscribe to the mailing list on the home page of beatzville.com
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God Bless and much success to you.
