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spent many a time and a night on the decks. Started way back from punk roots using elements of the rave scene to put on nights that went from rave to reggae and hip hop and back again. Went further down the hip hop root and put on Flava in Plymouth with XL and pushed hip hop as far as could be in Plymouth at the time. The local Plymouth heads that counted were there and the the up and coming talent through out the UK were grabbed and asked to appear and all this before everyone banged on about uk hip hop. We're talking from '94 on when First Rate was new to the scene, when Disorda still played American sets, when Roots Manuva hadn't yet done Witness, when Taskforce where the Battlecats, when Ty was still pushin Ghetto Grammer and Shortee Blitz was is P.I.C. Cutmaster Swift would play for us while on holiday here and gave us the first Enforcers show and Mark B still gave away his records. MK would do a four hour set to make the jouney worthwhile whilst Blade just jumped in the car with Grasshopper for something to do. And a young Milestone was in the crowd along with a London runaway known as Manage and The jungle Drummer was planning his future beats! Mr Thing rocked the parties then the venues started shutting nights almalgamated and Flava as room two to the jungle of Legends of the dark black continued the name and the game til further 'problems 'on the scene. But its not been all about hip hop. Running alongside this has been an interest in the breaks scene building up from trip hop to big beat and settling for the bass heavy sound. Anyone that came to Plymouth and played the Cooperage would have Bloodshot on the decks before them be it Tipper, Freq Nasty, Hardnox, Freestylers or whoever I was never far away.Bloodshot has/is/and will push hip hop and the bassline breaks and all round partying whenever and where ever possible. Not so much in the promoting game but always willing to spin the tunes be it hip hop or breaks. Reviews both genres for 24/7 magazine especially if its got a point to it and is not garbage. And a gabba session is never turned down. But really is any of the above that important?