steve kiw

A love of black music that blossomed in school towards the end of the 80s led me into dj’ing whilst all my mates were growing their hair and hoping tie-dye would come back into fashion. Being too young to get in a car and go searching for raves on the M25 meant I was the DJing loads of local house parties – an intense education in dj’ing and teenage life!With a record collection of some 20,000 LPs and singles my KIW show (Starpoint Radio, 9am – 11am every Saturday) allows me to dig deep into the crates and play soulful music from all genres; whether it be the easily defined soul of Marvin, Stevie or Minnie or its splinter genres. I'm as likely to play the heavy funk of Tower of Power as I am world music from Fela Kuti or Caetano Veloso; rap music from Public Enemy or DJ Format to jazz gems from John Coltrane; the giant disco 45s of Tom Moulton or ‘real garage’ from the likes of Marshall Jefferson and Blaze; original vinyl to sympathetic re-edits. Put simply, there will always be an open-minded approach to what reaches the turntable.My DJing has taken me across the UK and Europe; in the nineties I held occasional residencies at Hanover Grand and The Cross and have spent hours upon hours in backrooms and bars across the country. Nowadays my occasional residencies are in Norwich (Beatfix) and Derby (Soul Buggin’) and I also play at irregular parties for Norman Jay’s Crate Diggers across the UK. Until recently I hosted the KIW show on PushFM and before that I'd served my radio apprenticeship on the airwaves at TimeFM.My live mixing has been described as showing signs of attention deficit disorder. The annual KIW mixes, parodying the use of computers in today’s high street mix CDs, feature me mixing up to 60 records into a 75minute collage, all live and strictly done in one take. Whilst acknowledging they might not be to everyone’s taste, I entered one in a competition for house dj’s and despite not having a house track (or in fact anything with bpms above 112) came home 3rd out of 200+ entrants. These mixes can be downloaded at www.soulbuggin.co.ukThe KIW show goes out on Starpoint Radio every Saturday morning between 9am and 11am.I am also proud to be one third of the globally unknown BALEARIC ASSASSINS OF LOVE alongside my Balearic Bro's King Sunny Ade P and Sherman (when he can be arsed) Join our blossoming collective on Facebook if you dare!