Being a shade into my thirties, it's been a fair while since I spent a significant portion of my teens wobbling around Cream and Bugged Out listening to some of the best DJs an impressionable young 'un can hope to see. I suppose at some point I realised that there were more great music out there than I was finding on tape packs, mix cds and the Essential Selection and started frequenting 3Beat and Probe to find some awesome new records for myself.
At university I met DJs considerably more skilful than me (as in, they could mix) and somehow chatted my way into playing these records for other people. Luckily after student days I went on to be heavily influenced by two years living amongst the bass and bleeps of Sheffield. There I was introduced to a fresh house style stuffed full of chewed up vocals, rough basslines and bleepy hooks- in South Yorkshire they dig out music with character, attitude and verve and it has informed everything I've played since.
I've since moved on to Manchester but DJ-wise I've been lucky enough to play all over the country, from heaving behemoths of dance music culture like The Ministry Of Sound and Sankeys and legendary stalwarts of the scene like Back...
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