Richard R aka
Rich Beats
Now 31 a child of the house /hard core era, when tuning in to sunrise fm 88.75, meeting points and big big parties were about.
I remember back then that the music industry was all I wanted to be in, I didn’t have any interest in school (Acland Burghley) apart from the music .Even then I wasn’t interest in playing drums (which was the cool thing to do at that time).they use to have these little rooms all I wanted to do was to get as many guitar amps and speakers and try to connect them all up together and blast the room down for an hour or so with my c90 tape I recorded the night before off of the radio.
That’s where I Got my first deck - from some fucked up old 80 double DJ console with 3 flashing lights at the front ,but fuck it I thought I was grand master flash.
I first started trying to teach myself how to scratch & mix, no pitch control on these belt driven beautys!
Those days getting even 1 technic 1210/1200 you was on a par with god himself,
If you had a set of 1210s and a newmark 1775a it was official - you were god!
and yes, Nermark mixers were rated top back in the day (but they still were shit then but fucking expensive shit)
Eventualy a couple of years later I got some 1210s and an mrt60. I started messing about (this time I was working in young’s discos looking after the hire dept. I did some parties, left, and went to work for Rudie Cox in queen’s crescent where I got my hands on some real equipment! (not the shit young’s had) it was a great time of my life!
I then learnt some more and opened a radio station- Sweet fm 95.5 - run it for a little while got pissed off with dti taking our rigs all the time, and believe me I would put these rigs in some hard places inside lift shafts,hanging off of a car jack in a riser. But they still get them!
It was about then I started taking an interest in making music and recording . I then went to work at the electrowerkz.
What a fucking I opener that was I’m from an estate were every ones a ‘sweet geezer’
So what the fuck are all these blokes with white make up and birds wearing next to nothing or rubber skirts?
They run an alternative/goth club(www.slimelightlondon.com).on a Saturday. That’s when I became involved in live work I had all ways set up large systems and parties but never live stuff. My horizons were widened and blown apart more in those years then they ever will be again. I got to work some great people -hooj choones,warp records,Grand Master Flash (a dream!!), Asian dub foundation, E.S.G , Paradise garage, Horace andy, Soul Jazz records - and so many more top artists and labels.
Everyone has a period in there life when it gets a bit more serious and where they look back and realise that certian times were fucking great fun and working for Rudie Cox (Coxs discos) Mak & Dettie (Electroworkz) was it!
I met Adrian around time he use to have an art gallery/space in kings cross, a friend of mine (Fucking nutty hairdresser from Kentish town who threw some of the maddest Off the hook underground parties in London.) Micheal Murphy (www.flaxonptootch.com.com) did some parties in his space and we got talking ,I did some work for him we became good friends, and here we are now a good few years down the line.
@ The Salon. (cheq out pics)
recording & production studio
we:record/voice-overs/radio adds/cd-dvd-runs/format change
rent the studio out
and of corse cut records.(dub plate on vinyl that larst
a life time)instrsted in doing somthink at our space call me...Get Your Own! | View Slideshow
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