![]() ![]() But seriously I think maybe being asked to play the Sonar festival in 2002 was a pretty important step for me and also around the same time, getting my first gig at Circoloco at DC10 in Ibiza. My mother calling me last year to tell me that Paris Hilton just said in an interview in the Evening Standard newspaper that I was her favourite DJ. ![]() What’s been a definitive career moment for you? I like to pack my sets with some emotional punches and I like to play some strange, off-kilter, weird and wonderful surprises at what I decide might be an opportune or even, an inopportune moment. Psychedelic, trippy house and techno with a penchant for a cool melody and the odd well sung lyric here and there. For the last 15 years I have run my own label Crosstown Rebels and have been enjoying life travelling the world playing music to people, making them dance and smile. So here they are in chronological order: I worked in the best record store in London’s Soho, Groove Records, I worked at a car wash and at a travel agency, I worked for The Sun newspaper and for a bunch of other similar newspapers as a crime reporter, I worked at Dazed & Confused magazine as Assistant Editor and Music Editor for three years and I worked at London Records and then co-ran City Rockers. Yes, I’ve had a few interesting jobs that have lasted anything from one day to a few years. I read you used to do journalism and you’ve done quite a few other random jobs too – what made you decide to focus on your music? It was there that I first started to make electronic music alongside some pretty serious producers. C from The Shamen, and his management team, who ran a music studio in North London and gave me studio time. After that, I managed my best friends band, got them a record deal and after that I was spotted by Mr. The very first time I “made” a piece of music was for my school’s end-of-year review and I created this thing called “The Manuel Rap” about my headmaster, and I sampled stuff together from my Numark DJ Mixer and performed this rap with two friends from school. For me, there were two super important musical things happening at the same time: on one hand you had soul groups like Maze, Luther Vandross and Loose Ends, and on other side there was KRS-One and Scott La Rock and Public Enemy. ![]()
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