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Hello and welcome to my website.

In 1999 a friend showed me how to operate a dual cd player and a mixer. I was hooked. I immediately began DJing shows anywhere I could. Homecoming, prom, weddings, anything. Back then, DJing meant traveling to an event, usually in a crappy van, sometimes 3 hours. Upon arival I would carry 20 trips of equipment into the event. Then it was time to set up. Larger shows would take me 2 hours to get ready. All the lights could take awhile. High school shows were usualy 4 hours of music. Weddings usually 5 hours. After the show, tear it down and load it up, 30 minutes. Lastly, drive home. In the fall of 2008 I quit doing shows at high schools and weddings. Now I focus on what I want, when I want, where I want and I do it however I want.

I really started to get into "dance music" in 2001. At that time I started attempting to smash music together. In winter 2003 I was DJing at Coach's sports bar on Sunday nights, and that's when things changed.

I would play only "dance music" for 2 hours. People would complain and I would tell them to go away. I just kept smashing basslines together. One night at Coaches I was playing on the Denon DN-4000 dual cd players and it happened. I manualy beatmatched for the first time. I put minimal effort into improving and played very seldom for fun. I did crap dances full of hip-hop and crap I hate. I had no equipment of my own to practice on so in the summer of 2006 I bought 2 pioneer cdj-1000 tabletop cd players and a crappy djm-300 mixer. Things started to improve quickly as I learned to sync beatsr. I practiced seldom at that time because I had no place to play.

Fall 2007 I set up a ghetto studio in a friends wet basement and swore I would get better. Again, I seldom practiced. A group of DJs put together a show for a friends birthday party at a local bar January 5, 2008. This is when I started to put together sets, instead of just grabbing random tracks. I started recording, reviewing and critiquing these sets. I have continued to make and record sets as many monday nights as possible. January 5 2008 I recorded "DJ Lumppy - Live set 19". For 20-29 I dropped the DJ and just used Lumppy. Then from 30 on I started using the name Richard Lamm. I thought up a fun name for my live sets, Beyond the Limit.

I am by no means a superstar. I DJ for fun. I love it. A friend once told me "If DJing ever stops being fun, I'll have to stop doing it. Stop taking it so seriously." So I am trying. I do this for the love of the music and to bring this music to friends.

Enjoy