Bio:
Geoffrey Crabb aka G Flex was born in Eastbourne DGH on 13th January 1983. Lived and grew up in Seaford where he started experimenting with basic music making programs on the playstation and PC. Moved to Langney Eastbourne in 1999 to attend college and less than a year later moved to Lewes.
While in Lewes he purchased an Atari ST (loaded with Cubase v.2), a sampler, two sound modules and a MIDI Sequencer and started taking music prodution seriously. He produced several hours worth of music and gave away cassettes of his tracks.
He was also interested in DJ’ing after seeing some of his peers using decks so he bought a pair and started to practise night and day. Being distracted by the decks the production took a back seat for a while.
In 2001 he began to use a program called Fruity Loops on the PC and the production really stepped up a gear. He sent out several demos to various labels including Twisted records and Cactus records.
In December 2001 he landed a weekly residency at Brighton club Volks Tavern. Because of this the production once again took a back seat.
He moved to Brighton in 2003 to concentrate on DJ’ing. During this time the Sound System Good Karma was born with fellow reggae DJ’s MR Finn and Irie Fresh (Kings Hi Fi). A hectic few years of running parties, club nights and illegal raves ensued.
In 2004 he heard a sound called Dubstep emerging from Croydon and onto the streets of brighton via Mix CD’s and a lot of hype but no club scence (yet...). He sought out where to buy Dubstep records and began collecting labels like Big Apple, Planet Mu, Tempa, hot Flush etc.
In 2005 Good Karma Sound split due to musical differences but still remain friends. At this point G Flex retreated to the bedroom studio and spent a year producing his own unique style of Dubstep / Grime / Underground Dance Music and in June 2006 he started his own night called Rubber Dubs to showcase his diverse sounds.
Rubber Dubs runs last Friday of the month at the Jazz Place, Ship Street, Brighton along with resident DJ Micky Freeze.
Still in the studio and playing out regularly in and around Brighton, London and the South Coast, be sure to check out G Flex ~ The General
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