Hailing from Nebraska, Jack Plumb was born into a family of musicians. As a kid, he was first exposed to electronic music while waiting in the dentist’s office. A trip to Barcelona’s Diynamic Festival changed his life. Meeting ravers from all over the world and feeling the community’s energy inspired him. He wanted to become a bigger part of it and decided it was time to contribute to the scene back 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 like Garrett David (Chicago) and Drumcell (Los Angeles). Despite the modest size of the Omaha scene, they constructed raves decked with forty-foot vinyl projectors screens and a full TurboSound system.
After cheesy, house-y waiting room music piqued his childlike curiosity, Jack Plumb’s passion was further stoked by early 2000s mixtape CDs featuring fun and novel remixes of Sandstorm, Mortal Kombat, and Castlevania. Video game music left a mark on him, especially nintendo’s savant, Koji Kondo. Later on, his discovery of Daft Punk’s music would lay the cornerstone of his electronic music journey.
Jack is proof that the Techno and House music’s roots of 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, typical genre categories as he dives deeper into the underground.
From the hours spent digging on Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and Juno, to feeding off the styles and tastes of fellow DE reviewers, writing for the blog has pushed Plumb outside of his comfort zone. He often finds himself spinning tracks he never previously would’ve touched.
Some of Plumb’s favorite releases that he’s reviewed for Dirty Epic this past year include Ian Pooley “Studio A Pt.2” on Rekids, Client_03 “Sense Combiner” on Cultivated Electronics, and Driss Bennis Pres. OCB “Transhuman X-Press” on Casa Voyager.
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