JOSE BERNAL AKA DJ Dee X-Man, has been Dee Jaying to music ever since 1990. His interest into the art of Dee Jaying grew even stronger when a closed friend of his invited him to a few house parties, which at the time consisted of ELECTRO (EGYPTIAN LOVER), RAP (NWA), MIAMI BASS (MC ADE) and some FREESTYLE (STEVIE B) music. His interest for FREESTYLE music increased when a local Dallas radio station played the magical toons of NOEL's Like A Child. "I remember hearing that song and catching the message of the song as Noel sang it.

From that moment on, I too realize that FREESTYLE was meant for me. I recall hearing STEVIE B's Spring Love, but for some unknown reason Noel's song had a better affect on me at that time and I was hooked on FREESTYLE From that moment one DJ Dee X-Man began to collect vinyl and after a short 2 or 3 year span, over 60% of his records consisted of Freestyle music. DJ Dee X-Man's record collection at one point grew to 4000 records. "I remember when someone wanted FREESTYLE or was looking for a FREESTYLE song or artist, they usually came to me. They knew that I would either have the song or knew who sang it. I've had people buy or take miXed tapes from me and take credit for them. LOL!

I've even had miXes played on the radio, but yet the local DJs denied all knowledge of hearing them anywhere else. It was funny though cause all my close friends knew what was up." "I've been asked about my DJ name from time to time and after temporarily using a few other DJ names back in the early 90s, such as Mega Rock, Jealous Jay and Mega Jay, I decided on the name DJ Dee X-Man by way of a split up. By that I mean that I was part of a group of DJs that were called The X-Men, but after a short life, we all split up and went our merry ways. Especially after I joined the Marine Corps in January of 1992, and went from residing in Dallas, TeXas, to residing in 29 Palms, California for the next 3 years. About 29 Palms, California, let me just say you're not missing much, so I'll end it there.

While in California and from time to time, I would listen to an L.A. radio station that played Freestyle. I remember they used to play a lot of Nyasia, Daize and TKA in a megamiXed format. I was like wow! I got to get back into the FREESTYLE miXing scene too! My last year in the Marine Corp was spent in Okinawa, Japan. Although Freestyle wasn't played at all over in Okinawa, I kept abreast of all the new Freestyle songs by sending a good friend of mine regularly to the local record store, having him buy the records and actually having him mail them to me while still in Okinawa. Back then in 1995, I remember Tazmania Freestyle was bringing out all the great jams and I had my Dallas contact working on overtime trying to keep up with every 12" Tazmania kept bringing out. LOL!" "By early 1996, I was back in Dallas and although the local radio stations still played some Freestyle, they were not at all promoting it. By that I mean that they were still playing Old School Freestyle, such as Stevie B's Spring Love, Debbie Deb's Lookout Weekend, etc, but they weren't not playing the latest Freestyle. I felt that people got the impression here in Dallas that Freestyle was truly dead.

Especially when you keep hearing the same old songs almost 10 years later. To make the long story short, the Freestyle scene here in Dallas has been at its weakest eXposure point since. "In early 2000, I started to surf the web and realized that FREESTYLE was still very much a live. Back then I remember coming across a site call the National Freestyle Bulletin Board, I think that was the name. I remember chatting with Sammy C. about his song 'This other part of me' and going wow! This is great! Unfortunately my work took me away from the PC and for the next 4 to 5 years, Internet access was gone. It wasn't until recently in early 2005, when again most of my day at work was spent behind a computer and when I decided to google FREESTYLE, once again I came across several sites, which discussed and still supported Freestyle. After reading through a few dramatic threads and also seeing some promising threads, I decided to join a few of the sites and have my say too. It was soon thereafter that I met Ted, who was promoting his site Disciples of Freestyle and the rest is history.

I want to send a big THANK YOU to Ted for allowing DJ Dee X-Man to eXpose his style of miXing to the remaining Freestyle nation. Because of him new doors have opened up for me and 2006 for DJ Dee X-Man looks promising. Stay tune X fans!!" "As a Dee Jay, I believe we can continue to help our beloved Freestyle artists, who have the same goals in mind. To make Freestyle successful once again. Long live Freestyle and long live the art of miXing."

DJ Dee X-Man