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I started spinning records when I was about 13 years old. It was my brother who got me in to it, he could do no wrong in my eyes. So when he allowed me (and when he wasn't around to say no) I’d use his old Soundlab DLP3’s, a classic pair of entry level decks which were completed with a comically-old little 2 channel mixer, which I strongly suspect had a previous job in an unknown AV studio.

'...the feeling was and still is indescribable..'

I was instantly hooked. Mixing records together was creative, technical, fun and, most importantly for a 13-year-old lad, ‘cool’. I’ve always been creative; doodling and writing rhymes but these things didn’t really carry the same prepubescent street credibility that came with the label; DJ.

I very quikly realized the massive buzz that comes with entertaining, whether it be a few of my mates in my bedroom or hundreads of people in a club, the feeling was and still is indescribable. So I kept practicing when ever I could.

As time went on, I scraped together enough money to buy my first pair of decks. They were old, belt-driven, cracked plastic beasts, but they were mine and I loved them. From this point on, all of my pocket money and nominal earnings (from the odd child-labourous job) was ploughed into feeding my vinyl habit.

After a shakey start of cheesy 'Top 40'-esque dance records, I started to become musically liberated, experimenting with house, techno, trance, speed garage and later drum’n’bass, breaks and hip hop in all their many different flavors and with each of their different toppings. This adventurous approach to my music is something that I’ve never lost.

By the time I turned 15 I knew I wanted a career in music. I was becoming more and more despondent at school, which is hardly an unusual story of adolescence, but while my peers were sneaking-out armed with fake ID’s to pubs and clubs at weekends, I was playing them. My brother had set up a night called ‘Let Loose Da Juice’ from his now university town of Bournemouth and gave me a regular slot playing there. At 16 I ran my own night in Torquay called ‘Transitions’, which ironically reflected the time between secondary school and slacker college, with a lengthy dip in the chemical sea. I’ve never regretted not going back to Grammar school.

After a hazy period of excessive excessiveness and squalid living, which followed dropping out of slacker college and moving out of home with an equally socio-politically lazy youth, at age 16/17, I decided enough was enough and moved to Exeter to study music technology and other (superfluous) A-levels. By now my brother’s night, renamed ‘Breakfluid’ had taken off in a big way and was pulling in huge crowds and the biggest names in the business. I maintained my regular slot there and was also getting a lot of work from pubs, clubs and events in Exeter and beyond, including a regular Saturday night slot in the busy pre-club bar ‘Envy’.

I found it difficult to maintain an interest in college, with some of my excessive demons still very much in effect. The only course I had any time for was music technology, which I feel was teaching me the basic foundations for the future.

In 2000 I put together a business proposal and approached the Princes Trust finance team. After lots of painful waiting and meetings with Princes Trust big wigs, I was accepted for a small business loan from the Trust to set-up my own business ‘Digital Juice’. Since then I’ve been teaching myself how to use the software and technology to create my own sound. Like my record collection, my style has been hard to pin-down. I’ve made drum’n’bass, nu-skool, trip hop and breaks. These days I concentrate on hip hop, R’n’B and more song based music, which allows me to use my music, lyric writing and also my voice so that I have total control over the content- though I am also a big believer in jammin and collaboration.

DJing's always gunna be a real buzz and i've been fortunate enough to play hundreads of clubs, pubs, festivals, parties n shindigs across the country and play warm-up sets for the biggest names in the business. But my true goal now is to have my own records on the streets and be recognised as an artist in my own right.

The rest of the story is yet to be written, so watch this space…

Thanks to everyone who’s supported me over the years.

I wanna give a special big-up the following people:

Joe Dollar, Sarah McKendry, Noise Monkey, D-Bwoiy, Scooby, Henry Rider, Roo, Sophi Paulding, Mike Collins, Tilky, Sy, Carl M, Joolz and far too many more to mention

Rest In Peace Matty & Darrell, our thoughts are with you.