HOUSE OF CUSTOM MADES

As a child Decible, born James Blanchard, was raised in a household that was filled with music. Though he was the youngest of six siblings, many times he felt alone, it was one of the reasons he gravitated towards music. Music has always played an important part in his life, he has "an ear" for it as the saying goes... A move to Florida early in his youth exposed him to new styles of music and other genres. Feeling inspired when he heard certain beats produced by producers such as DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Marley Marl, Diamond D, among others, urged him to move beyond chopping samples on a tape player, weaving them together to form new sounds, and creating mixtapes, to sampling with a Zoom sampler.