Little Jim

This is my story........Since as far back as I can remember I’ve expressed myself through music and art and throughout most of my childhood I tried to learn how to make sound and shape it, using as many instruments as I could get my hands on. I always got involved with the latest music scene and I was and still am always influenced by new musical genres........I spent many years through my teens and adult life writing and performing with bands, playing a wide range of styles and taking on different roles within each band from vocalist to bassist. In 1998 I moved to Leicester from Cardiff and within a few months I met four talented musicians with a wide variety of influences. Together we formed the eclectic music collective Cassava which I fronted and continued to be heavily involved with for around three years........The time I spent working with such a talented and enthusiastic group of individuals gave me the opportunity to put my instruments down and concentrate on my vocals and songwriting skills for a while but having always been interested by the use of new technologies within the music indusrtry I was becomming more and more influenced by electronic music. I was restless working in a traditional band situation and wanted to learn more about using technology to realise my own musical ideas.........In 2001 I left Cassava and spent the next three years concentrating on music, technology and innovation. I developed my skills as a singer/songwriter, producer/perfomer and musican while still regularily playing percussion and providing live vocals in bars and clubs around Leicester, playing with DJ’s from different dance genres including Swivel@Havana (Hard House), Viroid@TheCharlotte (Drum and Bass) and over the last couple of years with Vangaurd@TheAttik (Dub/Jungle), Rootsound@TheTwistedToucan (Roots Reggae) and BreakTheMould@Nomad (Breakbeat/Progressive&Tech House)..........I’m currently still working on my own electronic music influenced mainly by chillout, dub, breakbeat, electro house, tech house, drum&Bass and trance and performing live vocal sets with dub sound systems..................................................... .................grey r 58 g62 b71border dark grey r 23 2g8 b32web yellow text r223 g207 b87web blue grey highlighted r84 g102 b150Pictures of the Lahoona Beats project StudioLi’l Jim performing with Cassava, Leicester music collective.