03.29 (Fri)
Born: "In 1975 in Kingston."
Family: "They always wanted me to go to University but I moved out at 19 and blew all that out. They listen to the radio now and love it. I remember being fifteen and playing my way through all my 7’s to my family and friends. Not to be a DJ but just because I wanted everyone to hear the music. I remember going on school trips and haranguing the bus driver. I’d take a box of cassettes with me and sit next to him."
Musical Roots: "I used to be really into 50s/60s stuff as a kid. I used to go out and chase down all these records I was after. There was this dude in Kingston, one of those people that would move in to other shops that have closed down and set up inside. He used to compile tracks for me that I was after and I used to chase them after that early funk records, whatever I was just bang into it. From there it led its way through to James Brown territory where you end up at the doors of hip-hop. I would collect on any format, tapes, whatever. When I was a kid of 10 or 11 I started buying records and it was 7" never twelves. I could never see the point of a 12". I wasn’t a DJ and 7" records were a couple of quid cheaper. The first things I re... More Biography
Family: "They always wanted me to go to University but I moved out at 19 and blew all that out. They listen to the radio now and love it. I remember being fifteen and playing my way through all my 7’s to my family and friends. Not to be a DJ but just because I wanted everyone to hear the music. I remember going on school trips and haranguing the bus driver. I’d take a box of cassettes with me and sit next to him."
Musical Roots: "I used to be really into 50s/60s stuff as a kid. I used to go out and chase down all these records I was after. There was this dude in Kingston, one of those people that would move in to other shops that have closed down and set up inside. He used to compile tracks for me that I was after and I used to chase them after that early funk records, whatever I was just bang into it. From there it led its way through to James Brown territory where you end up at the doors of hip-hop. I would collect on any format, tapes, whatever. When I was a kid of 10 or 11 I started buying records and it was 7" never twelves. I could never see the point of a 12". I wasn’t a DJ and 7" records were a couple of quid cheaper. The first things I re... More Biography