Paul's Top eJay Trax 1-5

1) Venemous MC - Yep! Yep!

2) Bird In A Tree - The Funkmaster

3) Madang - Girl-On-Da-Bass

4) Harry Turn - How

5) ConKuss - Alien Invasion

Paul Enderson, formerly known as Partners In Ryme, has been a DJ/MC for about eight years and started off playing for small private parties, progressed to playing some major clubs, then scaled down to playing pubs and karaoke events when the pressure from the clubs got too much to bear!

He classes himself as a house and garage DJ, a garage and happy hardcore MC, and a hiphop/r&b performer.

Paul is also a graphic artist and web designer and was the man behind the development of the original opening sequence of the Fest pages.

He's been involved with eJay since the very beginning and tried out Dance eJay about a week after it had been officially released. His eJayed! site (www.enderson.freeserve.co.uk/ejayed) was the very first UK website supporting eJay software.

Paul has worked with Jon Silvara (MD of Fasttrak Software) on many occasions, he's had his music played in Virgin Records Oxford Street store when FastTrak were promoting HipHop eJay, and he has worked on samples for Dance eJay 2 and HipHop eJay 2.

The first track he ever submitted to the eJay website (It's All Good) was nominated for EOTW and won week 18!

Paul's tips for budding Rap Artists

Go through the following process:

Lay down the backing using something like HipHop eJay 2 or StreetStyle eJay. I often import custom samples which I construct using programs like Fruity Loops (www.fruityloops.com). I then export the mix to a WAV file.

Load up a media player called Winamp (www.winamp.com) and a sample editor called Sound Forge (www.sonicfoundry.com). Using a cheap headset mic which I bought for a £5, I then play back the WAV file using Winamp while I simultaneously record the vocals in Sound Forge. Save the vocals to another WAV file.

Import both of the WAV files into Acid (www.acidplanet.com) and tweak them until the volume balance and timing are correct. Export all tracks to another WAV for burning to CD using Nero (www.nero.com) or converting to an MP3 using Musicmatch Jukebox (www.musicmatch.com).

As you can see, it looks like a fairly straight-forward process, but it can often take several hours and many re-records of the vocals to get a track sounding completely right. It's worth the effort in the end though!