I started DJing as a hobby in 1990, mainly playing Hip - Hop and UK Raggamuffin. Around the same time I fronted a live four piece band, that did not last for long, however, out of that came an outfit called X E DOS SOCIETY . Two MCs, a second hand AMIGA 500, and a bass player (who only lasted two gigs!).
The emerging illegal rave scene had lured me in, and spent many a weekend in motorway service station car parks waiting for maps/tip offs for the next big night, and many Mondays in the local record shop trying to buy what I’d heard.
During 1991 I secured a few DJ residencies in and around Essex. Often dragging round my new AMIGA 600 with me, playing tracks and dropping samples over the mixing. Sometime around 92/93 I was approached by a newly formed band called SZEKI KURVA. They were looking for a scratch DJ/Programmer to complete their line-up. Two EPs and a LP, another upgrade to an AMIGA 1200, and many in-house fights later THE FIGHTING COCKS were born. After a brief time signed to RCA RECORDS (one single - W**K**S!!) we started to release our own material on FGZ RECORDS. First up was ’Come and See’ an eleven track LP, and just about to be followed up by ’Music For Lapdancers’ a twenty track LP. Touring with The Fighting Cocks opened up many European DJing opportunities in Germany and Hungary and here in the UK.
With all of this going on, my own production moved to the back burner, but the flame never went out. I continued to hone my skills, and now have an extensive back catalogue of work-in-progress that is slowly getting polished. The first of these tracks are now available on the six track DnB EP ’Discords in a Refined and Pleasant Life’ (inc. ’I Believe’), from my own FIERCE BUSINESS RECORDS. Next up will be ’The Heat X Changer’ (inc. ’Shizzle Mi’).
In June 06 I was asked by TOP CAT to remix a TENOR FLY track called ’Ghetto Youth Must Survive’ which appears on the 10 track LP ’Two Veterans - Tenor Fly meets Top Cat’ available on CAT O NINE RECORDS. At present I’m co - running a weekly club night ’Sunday Sessions’ @ The Deck, Perranporth, Cornwall, UK.......
Breaks mini mix recorded live on 08 10 06 @ Sunday Sessions, The Deck, Perranporth, UK.
REMIX PLAYER - inc AMY MAY Right Now - Breaks Mix
, 586 We Got Bored - Tools and Twitheadz Mix
, TENOR FLY Ghetto Youth Must Survive
, OBEDIENTBONE Aware
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