Jack Plumb, bio
Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska and born into a family of musicians, Jack got his first exposure to electronic music as a kid waiting in the dentist’s office. A trip to Barcelona’s Diynamic music festival changed his life. Meeting so many ravers from all over the world and feeling the energy of the dance music community left him feeling inspired. He wanted to be a bigger part of it, and decided it was time to contribute to the scene back at home.
Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska and born into a family of classical musicians, Jack got his first exposure to electronic music as a kid waiting in the dentist’s office. Cheesy, housey waiting room music piqued his curiosity, which was further stoked by early 2000s mixtape CDs of fun and novel (at the time) remixes of Sandstorm, Mortal Kombat, and Castlevania. Video game music left a mark on him, especially nintendo’s savant, Koji Kondo. Later, his discovery of Daft Punk’s music laid the cornerstone of his journey with electronic music.
A trip to Barcelona’s Diynamic music festival changed his life. Meeting so many ravers from all over the world and feeling the energy of the dance music community left him feeling inspired. He wanted to be a bigger part of it, and decided it was time to contribute to the scene back at home.
Returning to Omaha, Jack started to DJ under the moniker Jack 2.0. He began to help an Omaha crew throw warehouse parties in an old German printing factory, initiating a party series known as “THIS IS” Prior to the pandemic they booked top DJs such as Garrett David (Chicago) and Drumcell (Los Angeles). Nevermind the modest size of the Omaha scene, they constructed raves decked with forty-foot vinyl projectors screens and a TurboSound system.
Jack is proof that techno and house music’s roots throughout the American Midwest are strong. While considering himself more of a House music guy, Jack explains that writing for Dirty Epic has pushed his appreciation for electronic music well beyond its dubious genre categories, and deeper into the underground. From the hours spent digging on Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and Juno, and feeding off the styles and tastes of fellow DE reviewers, writing for the blog pushed him outside of his comfort zone. He finds himself spinning tracks he never previously would’ve touched.
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Selected reviews:
Surgeon, “Europa Code”
Lisene, “Mind Palace”
Tim Taylor, “Do You Like…”
Machinedrum, “A View of U”
Moy, “Acid Entrée”
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