DJ PHIENE BIRTH NAME (WADDELL LLOYD) WAS BORN IN 1974 ON THE EASTSIDE OF DETROIT,IS WHERE HE BEGAN HIS JOURNEY WITH MUSIC AT THE AGE OF 8,PHIENE BEGAN LISTENING TO MOJO GETTING WELL AQUAINTED WITH ELECTRO FUNK AND NEW WAVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC ALONG WITH GEORGE CLINTON AND PARLIMENT FUNKADELICS.AND HE BECAME A FAN TO THAT MUSIC GENRA. AT THE AGE OF 12 PHIENE SPENT A SUMMER IN SURBURBING CHICAGO "IT WAS 1986"THATS WHEN PHIENE WAS INTRODUCE TO HOUSE MUSIC BY HIS FIRST COUSIN THAT WAS A NEIBORHOOD DANCER. HE USE TO ATTEND PARTIES WITH HIS COUSIN AND WAS HOOK ON THE CULTURE AND THE DANCES THAT WENT ALONG WITH THE MUSIC. IT WAS SIMILAR TO THE DETROIT TECHNO CULTURE. BY THE TIME HE CAME HOME HOUSE MUSIC HAS TOUCH DOWN IN DETROIT AND WAS COMBINE WITH TECHNO, AND THATS WHEN HE MADE UP HIS MIND THAT HE WANTED TO DJ AND PRODUCE.WHILE ACID TRAXX SWEPT IN HE HAD BUILT UP HIS CRATE COLLECTION AND STUDIO EQUIPTMENT AT THE AGE OF 14 AND START DABBLING WITH TRAXX MIMICKING THE POPULAR DJ'S LIKE THE WIZZARD (JEFF MILLS) AND PRODUCERS SUCH AS JUAN ATKINS,DERIK MAY,KEVIN SANDERSON.UNTILL LATER ON IN HIS LIFE PHIENE HAS FOUND HIMSELF AND MASTERED HIS TRADE THAT HE DID AROUND THE CLOCK AND LABEL HIMSELF DJ PHIENE AKA CRONICC BEATZ...