A brief insight: Aged 29 & based in Bournemouth. Having been exposed to electronic music from the age I had ears, I suppose it was inevitable that I've taken the musical path that I have. Growing up listening to artists such as Human League, Visage, Duran Duran, New Order etc when the Trance boom came around in the 1990s I was sold. Whilst my school friends listened to Brit Pop. Indie or Hip Hop, I immersed myself in hundreds of dance compilations from the likes of Ministry of Sound & Nukleuz. Still far to young to venture out clubbing I played every compilation to death.
Once I'd turned 18 I found myself at The Opera House in Bournemouth every Friday for Slinky. The music policy was pretty simple but very spectacular: THE finest Trance and Hard House DJs on the planet! Every DJ you'd ever care to mention that was making a noise within those genres during the early noughties played at Slinky. It was Mauro Picotto though who caught my attention the most. Famed perhaps for his Trance anthems such as Lizard, Iguana & Pulsar, it was his ability to crossover into the Techno field that interested me. His Nukleuz compilation "The Lizard Man" is a prime example of this and that led me to his compilation released a year later titled Metamorphose.
Fast forward 5 years and 2 trips to Ibiza in the summer of 2007 convinced me that the Trance scene had gone stale and it was time to focus on the other constant in my musical life: Techno. Picotto's Metamorphose compilation was littered with tracks linked to Picotto (productions, remixes or signed to the BXR imprint) but the standout tracks were Electric Deluxe - Electric Deluxe, Devilfish - Manalive & Chris Liebing - CLR 07.
Anybody familiar with these tracks and familiar with myself will probably not be surprised by those 3 choices. It's from there that I find myself here today. Chris Liebing, Speedy J, Gary Beck, Adam Beyer, Terence Fixmer are the current targets of my musical obsession. My sets tend to encompass all of these artists and the labels they tend to be linked with.
As a DJ I'm still very much a fan of using physical decks (CDJs) and a mixer. As revolutionary as the digital DJ era has become, at the present moment it just Isn't for me but who knows what the future might bring. You'll probably note the lack of egotistical bullshit about my big break in DJing and the endless list of A-List DJs I've played alongside. That's because there's nothing to mention. I've played at a few local nights here and there and held a residency for 2 years on an online Trance radio station called Trancemixers (now running as a website called Electronic Mixes). By all means I'd love to play out at a variety of parties so if upon listening to anything I post you think I can provide a soundtrack to a night then please get in touch :-) Until then I will continue to produce mixes and post them up for the sheer fun I get out of it & because I believe that's why all this fantastic music was produced in the first place.
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Music I listen to: Club Classics, Tech House, Trance, Techno, Disco, Jazz-Funk, Chillout / Leftfield
Places I visit: Glasgow, Sheffield, Nottingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Plymouth, Southampton, Preston, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Poole, Blackburn, Eastbourne