Hi Danny, firstly how are you and what have you been up to?
Im so grateful to be out on the road DJing enjoying every minute also working training with many people to achieve success in life and lead a dream life through personal development company success university
dannyrampling.successuniversity.com

You are credited as being one of the founders of the UK’s dance music culture/acid house explosion of the late 1980s. Do you think this is a fair statement and who else would you say was also responsible?
Of course I would say proudly that’s a fair statement as the passion vision energy I gave was the platform for the UK dance scene those that were also paradigm shifters (look this up paradigm) Frankie Knuckles Alfredo Tony Humphries larry Levan David Morales ron Hardy DJ Pierre marshall Jefferson paul Oakenfold Colin favor eddie Richards Noel watson Mark moore and all at the time.
It was a collective of sun spirits together

Tell us about that famous first night out at Amnesia in 1987/88[delete as applicable]. Who was Djing and do you remember what tracks were being played?
The legend DJ Alfredo good looking argentinian DJ who created soundscapes of eclectic music with a beautiful crowd dancing til sunrise in a glamorous totally open air club totally intoxicating experience like seeing the rolling stones for the first time or being at height ashbury at the birth of the hippy movement a real once in a lifetime changing unique experience for all of us present it was tribal feeling

After Ibiza you came back to London to recreate what you had experienced out there. For the younger audience out there that may not know the history, can you tell them a bit about the club night you started, Shoom ?
All night illegal basement gym on the at weekends deserted south bank of the river
Non stop strobe lights cherry scented smoke soft drink and energy pills 300 colourful party people a union of souls who were conducted by a young 24 year old DJ who gave so much positive energy and zest for life celebrating a new musical style house electronic Balearic melting pot of music

Can you tell us a bit about how Ibiza has changed since those early days?
Ibiza has gone from an island of a handful of supremely talented DJs with open air clubs to the superstar DJS in closed in clubs with far too many restrictions the freedom has been greatly reduced in recent times sadly

What’s your favourite Ibiza club; in 1989 and in 2009?
Amnesia open air 89 , Pacha 2009

At the Coronet you’ll be playing in front of 2000 people in the main auditorium. What’s the biggest crowd you’ve ever DJ’d in front of ?
30,000 at the river club nye 2000 amazing experience

Over the past 20 years what do you feel has been your biggest achievement?
Pioneering the UK scene with shoom going from an unknown to the prime time Saturday night radio 1 show

If you could go back to 1987 and do it all again, would you? Or have you had enough of partying the nights away?
I would do it all over again and much more right now with time travel if the opportunity was there

Do you feel there has been a best era for dance music, musically and as a scene?
1988 through the golden years of UK superclubbing to 2000 although its still rocking now!

In what ways do you think that the move from Vinyl to CD and digital formats has changed the whole clubbing industry, music and scene?
The dance music scene embraced developed technologies that have improved changed the way we listen play dance sell music
Sadly record shops are all but gone now there was always a buzz in all shops at the start of each weekend as we all came together networking sharing discussing music those days are surely missed

Tell us a bit about your new book?
The book has been inspired by my internet marketing studies on personal development courses therefore I decided to do what many of dream of doing and produce a book im sharing over 20 years of my experience as a dJ with readers with my partners we spent 6 months writing the book the feedback has been outstanding we plan to release a hard copy in near future also

Finally, you are a lot more selective and take fewer bookings nowadays and we’d like to thank you for coming to play for Rubix!
See you on the 16th May at the Coronet.
Its going to be a rocking night in Sarf London

Rubix team [Alex & Blake]