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Based on the South Coast of England I grew up listening to a fairly wide range of music. In short... on my dad's side alot of old Rat Pack, Tommy Steele and other jazzy bits n bobs. On my mum's side everything from the Beatles to Neil Diamond and much inbetween.I had the obligatory recorder lessons at school and then the flute which i got pretty good at although not graded and still play around with for ideas. I play Keys/piano but not so much nowadays.My music tastes changed rapidly when i left school at 16. Hanging out with older friends i soon got caught up in the early Rave scene in the UK. Moved to London age 17. Discovered clubbing and the now legendary Labrynth (Dalston Lane) where in 1995 i started Dj'ing. Playing what everyone now calls Old Skool and a fair bit of underground trance/techno. Basically, whatever made people wanna dance. I've been Dj'ing for about 15 years though in total and 4 or 5 years ago decided to teach myself Cubase which i now know inside-out, upside-down and back-to-front. Went on to learn a big chunk of Reason and in the last year been heavily into Ableton Live. I produce allsorts of music. Not strictly sticking to any particular genre but if i had to put my finger on one then it would almost certainly be Drum n Bass (swinging towards the liquid side of it as i'm gettin a bit bored with the mainstream club aspect these days). I dabble in live recording of Bands and got quite heavily into vocals this last year but i'm still very much a novice with regard to the processing of them. I try to listen to everything the musical community can throw at me with an un-biased opinion cos there's many a suprise when you least expected it... That's about it for now but i'll be sorting out my page a bit more over the coming weeks when i find time. Peace.