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Tales from the Past

About me

When it comes to explaining how I became a DJ, I can honestly say that for me, it’s been a long journey that has shaped my entire life. I was born in 1972 in London in the old Hackney hospital and at the tender age of 5, my family moved out into the country; I didn't have a say nor did I really understand what was happening being only 5 years old. I grew up listening to main stream music and every Sunday I would religiously listen to the top 100 with my tape deck ready and my finger on the record button. I found myself staying in more and more, listening to different genres of music playing on the radio and from my Mum and Dad’s record collection rather than going out and playing with my friends. My music tastes became vast; from rock and roll to classical and everything in between.

Going back to listening to the top 100 on a Sunday, I could predict a tune that came in at 100 and I knew instantly which one was going to be a contender for No.1 and I was able to do this for some time. Then something changed, I was no longer able to predict the tracks that made it to No.1 – it made no sense as they had no weight, and it was at that point that I slowly realised that the charts were fixed. I lost interest then, so I took myself off to WH Smith to find some new music. I was scanning the tape stand, looking at the artistry on the covers, seeing what would stand out and there it was…Deep Heat Volume 1 tape double pack! The only reason I bought it was because of the psychedelic orange cover and when I got home I could not believe what I was hearing! I played it over and over again; I was blown away – it was so fresh and the energy I got from it is hard to describe; I was so used to pop music, but after that, I never listened to the top 100 on a Sunday again and carried on collecting Deep Heat compilation tapes. It was to be a few more years down the line that I was able to connect the dots and understand what this new sound was all about, and now looking back all those years ago, you could say it was fate.

As a young adult, I survived on my dole cheque once a fortnight and this allowed me to buy enough supermarket own-brand sausages, eggs, bacon, milk, cheese and bread and have just enough left over to be able to afford to go Raving for 4 days - go figure! This was a time when you went to a Rave in your groups, but it was like the Marine Corps moto ‘no one gets left behind’ and we would all chip in if someone had no money to come out; we literally left no one behind.

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