Biography

the digitalistI did have a third person run-of-the-mill biog, but - I’ve written about myself in the third person enough thanks to my facebook status!

I’d love to say how I wanted to be a DJ since I was 4, about how I was scratching and doing double drops whilst still in the womb. The reality is, however, that at 4 I didn’t have a clue what I wanted to do. To some extent, I still don’t.

Aged seven, I wanted to be a Brick Layer. By ten, I wanted to be a footballer. Then a cyclist. Then a pilot. Then an author. Then a Rock star. Then a businessman. Now, I just enjoy doing what I enjoy doing; If it takes me to interesting places, pays me worthwhile money, and helps me meet interesting people, then that’s a bonus in my book. I just love music, the effect it has on me and other people - I find it fascinating and it completely fills the majority of my days.

Coming from a relatively musically orientated family, I was exposed to all sorts of music. My mother loves folk, my father likes trad. Jazz. My sister is a classically trained musician who is now a music teacher. So I’ve listened to all sorts of stuff over the years.

I learnt to play the piano at eight (although at first didn’t take to it), then learnt the guitar at 15, and then the drums at 17. After studying Music at College I was introduced to an even wider range of music - african beats, spanish guitar, freeform jazz, swing and also electronic music such as jungle and house. It was then that electronic music really started to take hold.

I just loved the progression, the driving basslines, the journey the tunes took me on. They put visions in my head, visions of staring out of a train window at speed - even when I wasn’t on a train(!) The music fuelled my imagination and created scenarios, events and places where I could really get off on listening to it. The imagination, the possibilities. I could close my eyes and it would take me to places without me actually needing to go there.

Now, years later, I hold down a residency at the worlds biggest dance music radio network digitally imported (di.fm).

What I love about playing on the radio, is that people are only there for one reason. They’re not there for the half price drinks on offer. They’re not there for the girls in short skirts. They don’t care what you look like, what you’re wearing - they care about the music you play and the sounds you produce. They are there to listen - and only listen. It’s this that makes it such a unique and extremely fulfilling medium. It’s brilliant.

In love with the raw analogue sounds of early synths, I now uses everything at my disposal to create a unique and up-front DJ sound. Putting it simply, I’ve got more squelch than a fat man sticking his foot in a wellington boot filled with diarrhoea. It’s filthy sounding!

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