LOKKI (Richard Lock)

I have been involved with drum n bass on many different levels for almost ten years. Currently I work for Nu Urban as their graphic designer / artwork person designing everything from adverts to record sleeves.
I first got into the music in the mid nineties through a culmination of the various music I was listening to ranging from electronic acts like Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Genaside 2 and Leftfield right through to experimental industrial bands like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. Later on add to this a healthy interest in a lot of hip hop such as Busta Rhymes, Tribe Called Quest, Jurassic 5 and an obsessive love of Cypress Hill and Bob Marley and it wasn’t surprising that these very different tastes would manifest themselves in a love for diversity of sound that jungle and drum n bass offered.
As far as DnB went, it wasn’t until 97 that the bug began fully to take hold. Previous to this I had owned a few bits n pieces along with the other electronic music I collected and battered Goldie’s ‘Timeless’album to death but it wasn’t until I heard the darker, deeper sounds around 97 that my ears began to prick up. Over the course of 98 my casual interest in DnB grew to a fully fledged love affair and it wasn’t long before and all the great stuff coming out on Hardware and Prototype had me more than hooked.
Shortly after this period savings were raided and decks were bought. Initially it was more to hear the music than to mix but obviously a love for mixing developed pretty quickly. Numerous days were spent trawling through Massive Records in Oxford looking for the best jump up, the darkest tech stuff and the odd bit of hip hop. It was from here that my love the darker techy stuff began to spread into the wider spectrum of dnb and labels like V, Full Cycle, Good Looking, Metalheadz, Ganja, and Formation soon found their way into my life.
I am not only a drum n bass DJ, I try to bring other genres into the mix and love playing around with music. I hate narrow minded attitudes and like nothing more than opening someone up to a new sound.
My DJ style could be described as being aimed at the dancefloor whilst keeping it slightly left of centre be it darker or more light styles… but check some of my mixes above and you will see how genres like dubstep and other electronica often sneak their way in to my more experimental endeavors!
Expect to see more dubstep soon here soon!