DJ Monarch now has a web presence after launching Monarch Music & Media where you can find home page links to a selection of his online mixes at Mixcloud and some of his music production ventures at SoundCloud. There is also a two-part DJ biography and the facility to hire his DJ services for your bar or club night, family get together, house party etc.
Vinyl is still very much the order of the day for DJ Monarch who plays an eclectic range of dance music styles including oldskool, drum & bass, techno, house, trance, hip hop, soul, trip hop and downtempo. His mixes tend to focus either on particular genres or specific years as this has proved to have gone down well with listeners who appreciate the variety, both in the early days
playing out and about in the bars and clubs and then more recently via internet radio.
The idea for starting a music and media website stemmed from a combination of the DJ's previous experience within the financial accounting industry which he worked in for many years learning much about good business practice along the way while the musical experience goes back to the late 1990s when a good friend and fellow DJ handed him a lucky local break with a regular warm up set at a local Northwich wine bar of a Friday night playing oldskool house which ended up running for 18 months. From there DJ Monarch went on to internet radio where his Monday night show on Ineffect Radio lasted for 7 years, the longest running show on that station.
Further opportunities to DJ outside the local area were provided during the time at Ineffect Radio, one memorable occasion being the party event put on by the station and held at The Venue in Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire. DJ Monarch's 90 minute set actually became a 3 hour set after one of the other DJs could not attend the event and it was a memorable evening with a great line up including DJ Hixxy who as usual was spinning some happy hardcore. DJ Monarch got his first overseas gig in 2006 when invited to a birthday party event for a girlfriend of one of the Ineffect Radio DJs, this was held in Zurich, Switzerland and once again a great time was had by all.
At the Monarch Music & Media store you'll also find new and used Vinyl Records, CDs, MP3s, TV & Film DVDs, PC & Video Games and other forms of electronic media which are available either directly from the website using PayPal's Buy Now buttons or via links to larger stores such as Amazon and iTunes who offer the customer a huge range of both choice and value.
Visitor interaction is very much encouraged on the website where there is a Guestbook, Guest Map, Forum, Live Chat Room and Blog, the aim being to build a friendly community spirit and a feeling of unity similar to that you find at the better live music events!
In order to aid the future growth and reputation of the website a reciprocal linking scheme is in place whereby other businesses, social network page owners and bloggers can register their interest and then submit their company logos, ad banners and page links etc.
