‘Expansions’ could be Broken, Jazzy, Latin, Techie, Soulful, Discoid, or a bunch of other things, but it might be easier to just call it ‘House’. How else can I explain Moodymann versus Chaka Khan?
Jimmy started off making not-too-badly beatmatched tapes using the trusty pause-button technique way back when. He later hosted a lunchtime show on a Wellington, New Zealand station called Active for about a year before moving to a DriveTime slot where he was lucky enough to hobnob with the hobnobs, local and international who passed through NZ’s capital. This was the mid-to-late 90′s, a magic time for techno and house, and Wellington being kinda small, he got to meet a lot of his heroes.
Moving to Japan in 2002, Jimmy took a long break from DJing partly to get some sleep, but mostly after shipping his record collection to his Dad’s house in Jamaica where much of it remains (not for long, though).
4 years of record shopping in Osaka proved a good reason to get started again, so the Version Excursion rebooted, and thanks to some key people around Namba, Horie, Sannomiya and Semba, the older-not-wiser Jimmy still gets to practice his beatmatching, though with CDJs sometimes, these days.
Vinyl; heavy, hard to find, but there is no substitute.
