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I am a self-exiled Greek. After 4.5 years in MAD-chester and 9 years in Germany (Berlin, Erlangen and a bit of Düsseldorf), I moved back to Manchester in April 2005 to start a new job.
Having spent a fortune on records, tapes and going to live gigs in Greece; a year of learning how to be a B-girl when I was 15; 9 months of being a night-time radio presenter on Greek Radio for a Cretan folk music programme (well, I was my dad's slave); a 2-year speck as the singer of two University bands in Manchester ("None of the Above" who are still going!! and "Blue 2"); very random attempts to learn the bass guitar (I always end up composing Joy Division's "Transmission" all over again); and 10 years of drug-free clubbing all over Europe, I finally accepted my teenage fantasy to DJ and did a workshop with Donna Maya from "Die Patinnen" in Hamburg in 2001 at the tender age of 32, and was wondering why I hadn't done it earlier! I started teaching myself on the decks of three generous, kind and wonderful mates: DJ Ainge who had even given me the keys to her flat to go and practise while she was at work!!!!, DJ Stef the Cat who gave me my first ever gig at the Schnabelbar and lots of encouragement, and Thomas, an avid techno DJ himself, who gave me his whole gear while he was abroad - ein massives Dankeschön geht an Euch alle! I was lucky to get my first gigs already in late 2002 and 2003 at the Schnabelbar in Berlin. These were followed by others in 2004 at the "Übernachtslounge" club in Dresden and at the "Köpi", an alternative cultural centre and squat in Berlin.
Once back in Manchester in 2005, I got my own Technics and my basic Stanton mixer and I also started a course in Studio Engineering, Music Production and ProTools at the School of Sound Recording (SSR). In early 2006 I got to play a couple of times at a Manchester internet radio station, Unity Radio , and later in the year I did a course in MIDI and Music Synthesis using Cubase SX and Reason again at the SSR. In May 2007 I got to play at my favourite club in Manchester, the "Attic", at Caro Snatch 's "Rare As a Green Dog" night which got awarded funding from Futuresonic Festival , followed by another RaGD gig, a gig at Hit&Run Manchester at the "Attic" again and a couple of private parties at the "Saki" bar. 2008 has brought several gigs both in the UK (Pangaea Festival, Open Plan, Fluff, RaGD) and elsewhere in Europe, so no doubt I will have to quit my day job soon ;)
I mix mainly oldskool upbeat and bouncy Jungle and dark, speed, hardcore Drum’n’Bass (Check and download my "Rumble in the Jungle" mix on DUBEARTH). In 2008 I started playing out Dubstep and minimal techno too (Check my "Trip into Dubstep" mix on DUBEARTH); whereas my goal for this year is to play out Schranz and hard techno too :)
In 2006 I started producing my own Dubstep-tech tunes at home (check out my music profile ) and given that I also still do the good old drug-free clubbing pretty much every weekend, 24 hours in a day are just not enough!!!!!! ...
Since January 2008, I've been doing a monthly podcast on Dubearth called "Genre Salad", where I introduce and play my favourite tracks of the day, year or life, usually brand-new dubplates and unreleased material straight from the budding producers coming from all corners of the Earth but also older tracks from bigger names that don't get played out enough. The tracks span many different music genres from dubstep to hiphop to jungle to raggacore to Schranz. To have a listen to and download the Genre Salads for free just click on the fruit below!If you want to send me your tracks for the upcoming Genre Salads, message me for the email and / or postal address.
P.S. If you're into non-electronic music, make sure you check out the rest of my family, Zero Fractal , the next Smiths, trust!
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