Even more than an inventor, entrepreneur, international speaker and performer, Justin Kent is a visionary. Discovery Channel calls him "The Future of Dance Music" and Remix Magazine says he's "Blasting The Market Into 2099." Inventor of the world's first MIDI Turntable, he uses his signature technology to mix and scratch music and video under the codename EJ K.

More than an inventor, entrepreneur, international speaker and performer, Justin Kent is a visionary. The Discovery Channel calls him "The future of dance music" and Remix Magazine says he's "Blasting the market into 2099." Born in Orlando, Florida, Justin — a self-proclaimed TV junkie — was brought up on a hyperactive diet of MTV and the Internet. A modern-day wiz kid, he was creating Web sites for NASA in high school before relocating to Boston where he earned degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in computer science and art and design, as well as a minor in music.

As a budding DJ in college, Justin quickly mastered the art of mixing records, but he missed the visual impact of television. One day it occurred to him, "What if you could scratch TV?" Armed with a desire to revolutionize music and the art of DJing, Justin was determined to enhance the musical experience by using his skills to incorporate interactive video into his sets. At the time, however, nothing on the market existed to support this. So Justin invented his own system, the results of which became the world's first MIDI turntable: a patented optical hardware/software system that allows the DJ to synchronize and control sound, video and lights. With the arrival of this avant-garde system, Justin Kent the DJ subsequently evolved into Justin Kent the EJ, or Experience Jockey, so-named for his ability to create one complete interactive club experience. Justin now performs under the code name EJ K.