I left school at 16 and trained as a sound engineer at Beatles-producer George Martin’s AIR Studios. However, I'd always played in bands and written my own songs so I really wanted to be on the other side of the control room glass. I didn't realise at the time how lucky I was to learn from the best producers and engineers in the world...
Around that time I started recording music on my own, first using a four track tape recorder and later with a Commodore Amiga and a basic music sequencer that came free with a magazine cover disk. I was DJing too at this time so it was natural for me to start mixing samples from records with the instruments I could play.
I worked with Jadell on a never-released project called Vanishing Point: two white-boy producers and a Puerto Rican MC from New York. Sounds fresh but the "rapper" had a flow like a rusty sewer (in a bad way) and our production was a little too lo fi to cut it...
A few years later, after gaining "critical acclaim" with productions as the Hightower Set and Appleseed, I released material on labels like Wall Of Sound, Pussyfoot, Ultimate Dilemma and XL Recordings offshoot Rex Records.
A string of high profile remixes followed including Badly Drawn Boy, the Sugababes and Kylie Minogue’s massive number one "Can’t Get You Out Of My Head". Some of the people who have continually supported me and played my records over the years are Radio One’s Zane Lowe and Rob Da Bank, Xfm’s Eddy Temple-Morris and London Live’s Sean Rowley... so thank you to them and many others besides.
As well as producing my own records I've produced records for other people: indie bands, singer-songwriters and of course the genre-defying but very funky (and totally hilarious) Cuban Brothers.
My tracks have been featured in TV adverts for Toyota, Adidas, 3 Mobile, Carlsberg, Tiger Beer and others. I've provided music and sound design for some cutting edge websites including sites for Honda and EA Sports and I was nominated for a prestigious D&AD award for my work with Tokyo Plastic.
I've recently composed the music for a short film, "Samurai", an animated tale by Three Legged Legs. Although only three minutes long the soundtrack to Samurai has many elements of a full-length feature film including a symphony orchestra, traditional Japanese instruments, modern beats and movie-style sound design. It's definitely one direction I'm headed in for sure!
I'm currently working on a new album of crazy prog rock/hip hop breaks and beats as well as all the other stuff I do to keep the big bad wolf away from my door. Ggrrr!
