#I think technically he can stop illegal mining operations but not the idea of it broadly

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You think Tron is devastated he shares a name with a cryptocurrency? 🧍‍♂️ identity theft isn’t a joke.

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TheAmazingUchihaBruhs: Naruto’s Birthday Special (part 1)

A/N:I have been very busy, but I managed to fix something for Naruto’s birthday anyways. Enjoy

Case 18

The one thing I had been secretly enjoying these past three months, was annoying Naruto for being underaged. So, it is fair to say I have been quite the ass towards him when it came to activities that were technically illegal for minors.  I also did not pass the opportunity to shove it in his face. Every. Damn. Time.

But the day has come the minor is going to turn 18, and my teasing days have come to an end. It was only to be expected from Naruto to directly take the opportunity to invite me to come over during his the celebration.  He did make clear that he was going to shove the 18 candles on his cake somewhere the light won't shine.

Yeah, I was not underestimating what an ass I have been to him these past months.

Putting that aside, I wanted to get him something special for his birthday. Something he would not only like but love. However, I have no fucking idea what that thing would be.  So, I have to do some detective work.

Detective work being a different way of saying -> I am going to stalk him so I know exactly what he wants.

Oxoxox

Like every good detective movie. The very first thing you do, is clear the pin board and  put everything you already know about the case.

I looked at the yearbook picture of Naruto in the middle of the board. It was surrounded by the ' known'  facts. I was playing with the red marker while my eyes were fixated on the board.

Uzumaki Naruto. Recently started his bachelor in chemistry in the university of Konoha, lives with his mother, Uzumaki Kushina, and his father, Namikaze Minato. He plays tennis, goes to the gym, likes to go to bars, socialize, make friends, play video games. Suffers from ADHD and a nut allergy.

The last one I found out the hard way.

" Holy fucking shit! Shisui owes me money!"  

I turned my head to Izuna, who naturally walked  in my room without knocking.

" Get out" I threw a book towards him, but he dodged it.

" What? We have 34 bets. Which one?" Shisui stuck his head inside my room and looked at the pin board.

" It is not what is looks like!"  I was afraid they thought I was stalking Naruto.

"You did not win. He hasn't kidnapped Naruto yet. So, you haven't won yet!" Shisui looked serious.

" You guys think I am going to kidnap Naruto ?"  I did not expect anything better from my brothers.

"Are we wrong though?" Izuna pointed at the pin board. " You have made a graph of his sleeping pattern going from light-sleep to heavy-sleep"

"Dude, I thought you were bad at maths!"  Shisui walked towards the pin board to examine it.

"Can you ..like...stay away!"  I hissed, trying to cover the board with my body.  " He invited me to celebrate his birthday next week, and I need to figure out the perfect gift!"

"Why?" Izuna asked. " Because he got u that awesome sex toy, you don't wanna share"

" Disgusting..and disturbing.." I shook my head slowly.

"You know what would be a nice gift...A restraining order" Shisui high-fived Izuna.

"But really, you probably won't even see him Friday. Lots of people got invited-"

" Friday?"  I cocked my head, " he said Sunday"

"No, it is Friday. I am sure " Izuna grabbed his phone and after a few minutes he turned the screen towards me.

"But..He told me it was at his house...at noon" I scrolled through their chat.

" Ayyee...Now it got awkward..." Izuna looked at Shisui.

"He probably has his reasons, princess. Maybe he wants the two of you to celebrate together. Maybe he knows you are not into loud music, a big crowd and warm beer. You are probably-"

" That asshole! He is shutting me out!"  I clenched a fist.

" Yeah ! And he invited like..the entire university! If not the entire city".

" I think you are putting fuel on this fire, izuna" shisui sighed. " princess, just be straight with him. Text him and ask about the party on Friday. Maybe he made a mistake, maybe he has his reason-"

"Oh, I am going to get to the bottom of this!"

"Hell yeah! Go and catch him right in his fucking lie!"  

"I thought you and naruto were friends, Zuna"  

Their conversation between them went on.

I didn't pay attention though.

 I was determined to find out why the hell Naruto was shutting me out. Could it be...that there was some hotti in his class who is super smart and good in chemistry and maths that loves to work out and is like a 10 in bed!

Shit. No. That person would have everything I have not. Maybe Naruto already knows!  I have to find out who this bitch is...and kill them.

I pulled his picture from the pin board.

"Operation perfect present has changed. I am no longer interested in what he wants. I am interested in that slut's name he fucks around with and I am gonna make them disappear!"

I saw shisui and izuna share a look with one another.

"Uhmm...where did the ' slut'. Come from?" Shisui was the first one to ask.

" obviously it is the bitch in his class that he is totally into and thus is shoving me to the side!"

"That makes perfect sense! You're his plan b when it doesn't work out with that bitch!"  

At least izuna got it.

" you will not listen to my advice, will you?"

" no" Both izuna and I said at the same time.

" don't call me when you are in jail" he walked out of the room. Well, I did not need his negative energy anyway.

I grabbed my laptop.

“This is like playing detective! But instead of the finding the missing dango we are finding the bitch who is trying to steal your boyfriend"

" he is actually not my boyfriend....yet" I turned the screen of the laptop around for Izuna to see. " he has 200 classmates. It could be anyone of these fuckers!"  I put the laptop back on my lap.

"Oh damn...this seems like...a lot of work. Why don't we just..like..proof you are better than some random person in his class."

I looked up from the screen, over my glasses at my brother.

" Dude..I'm an 18 years old, below average, guy that has severe ptsd coupled with anxiety and on the verge of depression. My special skills are eating an entire bag of crisps and sarcasm"

" yeah..killing the bitch is easier" izuna admitted.

"Fuck, you would expect a bunch of future chemist to be a bunch of geeks..." I Muttered, googling every name.  " it could be any one of them"

"What is Naruto's type anyway?" Izuna looked over my shoulder. " dude, are you cracking into their personal emails?"

I turned my head to look at my brother.

"It depends...are you going to snitch on me?"

" When did you even learn-"

" I am a guy with some hidden skills....I knew some IT nerd back in the police force. I saw them do this all the time. That is how I know some tricks"

" dude...Why don’t you just crack Naruto's computer. See whom he has been in contact with from his class and all"

I stopped typing for a second.

" fuck me"

" I am a good partner"

" even better if you get me some coffee" I said.

" on it, partner!" Izuna jogged out of my room as I continued trying to get in Naruto's laptop.

" ha! I am in! Thank you weird IT chick that is always talked out loud" I smirked.

"Do I wanna know what is going on?"  

I did not look at the door opening, knowing it was Obito.

"Hacking Naruto's laptop to find some scumbag trying to steal something of mine"  

"I don't wanna know" Obito said, as he walked past the open door.

"Hey, I got the coffee. What do you have so far?" Izuna said, putting the mug down.

" so far...I know his background is a picture of a fox and he watches a lot of porn..like...a lot...like...fucking hell. There is gay porn here and lesbian porn and just straight porn. Apparently he does it between making homework too?"

" how long can this guy go?" Izuna grabbed my laptop and scrolled through it. " he is into some kinky shit..so it seems..."

"What else is there?"

"...Youtube..lot of youtube..FaceNet"

" FaceNet. Give me that" I grabbed my laptop back. "Ha! They have a class groupchat !”

" of 200 people?!"  

" nah...20...but he is in 6 of them...fair to assume he made friends with almost everyone" i scrolled through some of the chats, but got nothing.

"Hey, single chat, some chick named Mito" Izuna pointed out. I pressed it and frowned.

" He video chats with her"

" cam sex eh! Scumbags!"  Izuna said.

" it is suspicious, right?!" I shouted.

"He wrote a message..see the chat with his mom is back on top" izuna speculated.  I pressed it.

" Hey mom, I am with  Nana"

"Who the fuck is Nana!?"  I shouted.

" he has two side bitches! With you makes it the three side bitch! "

" but of course!"  Everything made so much sense now.

" she is typing!" Izuna pointed at the screen.

"Have fun, dear. Be safe " Izuna read outloud.

"K-kushina...But...i thought she liked me!" I grabbed izuna. " she is in the scam too...curse that family. What does she mean, be safe..WHO SAYS THAT!"

" Come..come...Sasuke...it is alright".

" it is not!"  I hissed, pushing izuna aside. " I am gonna track the gps on his phone and fucking confront him!"  

" you can do that?!"  

I raised an eyebrow when I turned my head.

" track my i-phone...dude...it is not hard..." i shook my head.

I wrote the address down and got up.

" bitch gonna get it. All of them!"  I reached in the drawer and grabbed my handgun, though izuna immediately grabbed it from me.

" you are right...I will beat them all! More satisfying"

"Maybe..And this is odd coming from me. You are just scared because you don’t see him as often as you used to. So,now you are thinking irrational?”

“You followed one psychology class. Back.The.Fuck.up!” I hissed

“I should not be a part of this. Without Shisui as my attorney I am not sure who else I can afford"

" whatever! I will go alone!"  I Grabbed my phone and walked out of my room.

" where are you going?" Shisui asked as he saw me pass by.

" fuck some fuckboy’s bitches over" I hissed.

"....Be safe..”

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Exclusive Interview With DJ & Producer Tanner

Diving into the industry under a new alias, Tanner otherwise known as Connor England, is a 23 year old DJ & producer from Daventry, who specialises in House and Disco. Currently based in South London he is completing his degree in Music Industry Management at The Royal Docks Business School. I caught up with him to get an insight into his life and what’s been keeping him busy recently in the big smoke.

Hi Connor, thanks for taking the time to chat, must be quite the challenge trying to keep on top of university work and maintaining a DJ career, how do you time manage? And what are your plans for after university?

Easy, thanks for having me! So yeah, I’m in 2nd year at Uni at the moment, and although the course is rather academic (being Music Business) the workload hasn’t been too much to handle yet alongside my job and music work! I work as a bike messenger almost full time alongside Uni in the week and that covers me for money, leaving me from around 5pm onwards each night to focus on my music/Uni work. I’m testing new tracks, mixing and building sets for possible gigs near enough every day, be it before work or Uni, or when I get back, and the same goes for when I sit down to write my own music or play around with some edits. 

Music itself is a big part of my day to day routine, and my daily life (besides work) almost completely revolves around either studying about music, or making/re-producing it in some way. Weekends are best, as I can use both free days to really get into a new project in the studio, or simply use the time to search for new music etc. In terms of what I’ll be doing when I finally graduate Uni, you’ll probably see me doing the same things, but with more time and money on my hands to do them! Also, I’m working on a few up-coming projects right now that if all go well, should keep me more than busy after graduation.

The inevitable question, what made you decide to become a DJ? 

Haha, this is a hard question actually, because there’s so many different reasons and memories I have of starting, plus I got my first set of decks 8 years ago now! But to be completely honest, the first time I ever experienced dance music in a way that influenced my future choices was at the age of 15, when I lived in my hometown of Daventry. An older friend who I looked up to a lot and who always had his ears to the ground for new music, invited me to a house party in the neighbouring city Coventry. Being a small-town boy and still in school, opportunities to leave the town and go out at my age were minimal, so I was eager to not miss out. We eventually arrived at the house quite late and settled in, not long after which I was offered my first pill by another friend. 

As you can imagine, and like most stories before mine that include a reference to ecstasy, the rest is history. The person who was DJ’ing was playing all sorts of stuff that I’d never heard before (I was in to some pretty crap music myself at the time) and it just completely blew me away. For the rest of the night I danced in genuine awe of the DJ as he played tracks by Pearson Sound, Mala, Boddika, Leofah, and Pangaea to name but a few. (Ramadanman – ‘Glut’ was one of the tunes I heard that night for example). I think the combination of those heavy rolling 135/140bpm tracks and my first pill experience gave me an insight into a world I didn’t know existed till that point. After I finally recovered the next day or so, it was obvious to me that I had the bug, and I decided I’d never look back from that experience or the scene I was introduced to. I began practicing on my brothers Technic 1210’s and bought my first set of decks soon after. Nearly 8 years later here we are! Romantic eh.

So, you’ve been uploading some of your own edits via SoundCloud recently. When did you start to produce and where do you see it taking you alongside your DJing?

Well, I’ve always wanted to make my own music alongside being a DJ, as most of us do at some point it seems. I mean, it’s a natural progression to move from playing other people’s music to making your own I guess. Up until now I’ve been rather self-critical with my productions, and thus haven’t uploaded anything till now. However, in the past 6 months I’ve spent extra time in the studio working on tracks, and decided it was about time I released some under a new alias, so I created Tanner to group together my current DJ and production work. In the long term, I plan to keep building on my individual sound as a producer to coincide with the type of music I play in my DJ sets, and to release on some labels I’ve always wanted to feature on. I like the idea of starting my own label at some point as well, to release some of my more obscure or random productions, possibly alongside other friends and colleagues, but we will see. I wouldn’t start a label for the sake of it.

So, you’ve played at and helped with nights in your hometown of Northamptonshire in the past. Would you say it’s easier to organise an event back home or here in London? And reasons why?

Well, back home the scene for house music was small, and the nightlife economy there revolves around typical small town mentality. Most ‘clubs’ catered for RnB and Pop music, and all the ‘bars’ were either so bleak or depressing that it made going out for me and my friends a no brainer. We often stayed in on weekends preferring to watch early days boiler room through some tinny laptop speakers instead! So, when there were House/Techno nights planned, everyone in the town with vested interests was involved in some way. Be it performing, promoting, flyering, helping to spread the night through word of mouth at college, you name it. The whole scene - or most of it - would try and pull together to start new nights, to offer some sort of alternative to the norm, which was great. In terms of London, I’m currently building a proposal for a bi monthly event to be held in South London (set to run from July 2017), and all in all that has been a lot of work to plan, but relatively easy to get permission for etc. I wouldn’t be able to say if it’s easier to be honest, as I think the challenges that people I know faced in Northampton are very different to the challenges promoters will face in London now, such as gentrification or property development for example. But overall I’d say that regardless of how hard it is for people to start a night, there will always be those that find a way around it. Like Acid House showed us, the skies the limit. If it became impossible to legally run events, then promoters will simply go back underground, operating via illegal events instead. 

Who are your biggest influences?

My biggest influence is my mother that goes without saying haha. But musically, ah there’s so many! Chicago House and Detroit Techno were really important for me when I first began to delve into the more underground side of dance music, so I’d say for sure artists like; Frankie Knuckles, Larry Heard, Ron Hardy and Steve Silk Hurley, plus Carl Craig, Jeff Mills, Theo Parrish and the like from Detroit. Then there’s the more recent artists such as Joy Orbison, Ben UFO, The Black Madonna, Midland etc. Also, my old boss Aidy West who owns Vinyl Underground (a 20+ year old record store in Northampton) is a don in the underground scene, and he was a big influence on my taste in music when I worked for him. 

What are your top 3 songs at the moment?

Ah that’s easy, I’ve been rinsing these recently! 

1. Guy Costly – Somebody Here

This is an absolute banger straight from 1992. It just climbs and climbs! Slamming gospel house track that works on the dancefloor every time. Available on Discogs for under a £1 too so go get a copy!

2. Cloud One – Disco Juice 

It goes without saying, but this is a timeless classic that will always be a feature in my sets. Almost entirely produced by the legend Patrick Adams for Cloud One, its got tonnes of feel good vibes right from the start. A surprisingly versatile record that works in so many ways – great to end an energetic set on!

3. Karizma – Work It Out 

This heavy hitter from Karizma is such a favourite of mine at the moment that I’ve stopped playing it in the hope it becomes a bit of a nostalgic go to record for my future self!  More gospel madness, enjoy dropping it as you inevitably will!

Any tips for aspiring DJ/producers?

Focus on doing things for the right reasons that matter to you, and try to keep in sight why and how you started your love for being a DJ or Producer. It doesn’t matter how long it takes to get to “the end result”, and realising that can be humbling. I’ve got far to go in terms of achieving the goals and aspirations that I’ve set out, but taking the time to achieve them properly and organically is what I hope will keep me involved and in love with music for years to come. Thanks :) 

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