31 yr old Alex Virr (aka Youthful Implants) started DJing drum n bass
whilst at university in Manchester in 1996. After 2 years representing
on the student scene and promoting a night called Beatific he returned
to London and began working on a record stall in Camden selling nu
skool garage and DnB alongside Ollie Moira of Hardcore Beats. From
there he met Clayton from the south london based Trouble on Vinyl /
Renegade Hardware studio who offered the opportunity to work for
him both as a recording artist and consultant on fledgling breaks
label Octagon. The Funkaholics were born with founding members
Joe Grey and Tam Cooper (now known as Precision Cuts). An EP
and two singles later the Funkaholics were receiving props from
Adam Freeland, Tayo and Tipper in the early days of the nu skool
breaks scene.

During this time the Funkaholics played sets around London for
Chew the Fat, Renegade Hardware at the End and Mass. After
an amiable split, the Funkaholcs were disbanded and Precision
Cuts were born whilst Alex left London to pursue a career in
graphic design. Three years later Alex returned to London in
2002 and soon after hooked up with DJ Jurassik to help mould
the Supatronix sound. He now enjoys being partner and resident
at the Hoxton based monthly parties with Jurassik and the hugely
talented Missmax.

Following guest slots on BreaksFM and NuSkoolBreaks radio and
excited by the developing sounds and continuing diversity within
the whole spectrum of breakbeat - Youthful Implants' sound now
spans a broad musical range from the electro-oriented side of
breaks to its more hardcore cousins. A hook up with producer
extraordinaire Anti-Science saw new ideas and skills brought to
the table in 2007 and these two have been combining Ants'
superb mixdown capabilities with some of YIs' older material
to produce some brand new forward thinking breaks released
on new label Waveshape last year. 2007 also saw Alex release
on Sango, Defbox, and NuLogic as his remixing skills gathered
demand.

2008 will see Alex teaming up with old friend Ollie from Hardcore
Beats to launch sister label Future Perfect with some fantastic new
talent and genre blurring music. Supatronix's new venue Medicine
Bar, Gt Eastern St, London EC2 is proving to be the perfect platform
to showcase up and coming DJs in the bar upstairs as well as more
established artists in the club downstairs and is fast developing
into a commercial force to be reckoned with. Supatronix is 1st
saturday of every month and you can catch the Supa residents
on internet radio on www.nsbradio.co.uk from 5pm - 7pm every
saturday evening. (read l Be my friend on MySpace here and c
heck some tracks: YOUTHFUL IMPLANTS MYSPACE - Blatch!

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