I'm a music composer, not really a DJ. I go by the name of DJ Ashdrey. I started off making music with Magix Studio as a teenager, trying to emulate my favorite DJs with the cheap sounding MIDI instruments with it; it ended up sounding like video game music. I have advanced to FL Studio, and have been using that for two years, with which I have become an expert. I have influences from many of my favorite trance artists and especially from some great music from video games.
My music may be labeled trance, but I interweave complex, baroque-sounding, epic melodies into much of my music. I use several different types of synthesizers to combine some ambience with some sharper riffs, and I use complex chords, not just the typical major/minor ones. I'd like to think of my music as the opposite of "dumbing it down," which is "smartening it up."