We sit down with Jason Hodges for our ‘Get Familiar’ Series as we shotgun some questions his way to get a peak into how inspirations, introduction to the culture and his start in the music world!

A1. I discovered house music while at my grandparents house way back in 1989-90. They had a really high end AV receiver that picked up a local university radio station. So one day, i was flippin’ through the radio dial and discovered a show playing on this station mid afternoon, really cool music called house and was hooked from that point on.

A2. Toronto was influenced big time by the NYC sound/scene so any of the NY dj’s were an influence to me but it was Louis Vega who made me wanna do this

A3. My first major club gig as Jason Hodges was at a place called 23 Hop in Toronto. That place was the bees knees, soo much fun.

Q4. What is your go to piece of kit?

A4. Well my go to piece of gear has always been my SP 1200 as well as the MPC

Q5. Wish List – What do you wish you owned that you don’t have today?

Listen to his latest release for Refuge Recordings