LISTEN TO DJ FOOTLOOSE ON BBC1XTRA - MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY MORNINGS - 2AM - 6AM....show will be available for 7 days after at www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra...
In 1992, DJ Footloose burst into the UK music industry at the tender age of seventeen with his passion for the newly born Jungle scene. For the following six years he was booked to DJ for all the heavy weight club promotions such as Telepathy, Jungle Fever, Roast, Thunder & Joy, Jungle Splash as well as hosting his first regular radio show on the specialist Jungle pirate station, Kool FM.By 1998, the Jungle scene fragmented into various musical directions with one route transpiring into the UK Garage scene. Yet again, Footloose was on top of his game with a weekly radio show on the first pirate Garage station, Deja Vu, alongside fellow connoisseur, Pied Piper & Mike Ruffcut, following on to the mighty Freek FM alongside EZ & The Heartless Crew. Due to the ten years of constant airplay and exposure, Footloose had generated further hype to his name amongst the ever growing UK Garage scene with his diary becoming increasingly over loaded with DJ gigs every night of the week for all major club promoters in the UK such as Twice as Nice, Sun City, La Cosa Nostra, Climax, Sidewinder etc. The hype didn't stop there as he then took the mighty step of pioneering the UK sound across to the USA (New York, LA, Seattle, Miami, San Francisco, Philadelphia) as well as Canada (Vancouver & Toronto) and Europe (Cyprus, Switzerland & Germany).In mid 2001, Footloose also tried his hand to promoting his own club night called Sunday Skool which ran successfully at various venues across London for a couple of years and attracting further collaborations with other promoters, as well as launching his own record label. With such a strong presence within the Garage scene, Footloose was the Senior Chairman for the Urban Dance Committee which he set up with fellow committee members such as DJ Spoony, Mike Anthony (Rampage), Michael Bulgen (Zoo Enterprise) & Norris Windross (UKG Awards) to work alongside the Metropolitan Police.Footloose was also featured in a BBC Choice documentary called 'A Day in the Life of a DJ', which highlighted his talent on a visual platform plus invited to showcase his mixing skills on the turntables as a special guest on specialist urban shows airing on major radio stations such as BBC Radio One (Dreem Teem), Choice FM (MasterStepz & Andy B) and Kiss 100 (Dreem Teem).Over the last couple of years, the garage music fragmented into a similar pattern as the Jungle scene and instead of following the newly born genres such as Grime, Footloose opted for the more vocal side of the street - Funky & Soulful House. Presently he is one of the busiest DJs in the UK pioneering this new funky house movement within the underground scene as well as producing tracks in the studio well before this genre crosses over to the masses by the end of 2006!In 2007 DJ Footloose is still going from strength to strength ~ he has produced ‘Just Leave’ feat: Simone which has already created a stir in the clubs as well as being a huge hit on radio where it made ‘record of the week’ on BBC Radio 1xtra, where coincidentally Footloose has landed the job of presenting the New ‘House’ Show.
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