I got into music / djing back in 1991. I hooked up with Colin Dee, he was playing in the local haunt called "The Chambers" - a dodgy pub that spawned a few of Corks biggest Dj`s. At the time Colin was playing Hardcore (I think that’s we called it at the time?), I was one of the only other lunatics in the City that was into djing the same stuff - so we hit it off immediately. We banged out hardcore for a year or 2 in the Chambers which got busier & busier with the growing popularity to "Raves" in the city. Cork is and was A house-Music orientated city due to the Legendary Sir Henrys club, so playing oldskool back then made it pretty difficult to get a gig! In fairness, we played every club in the city at one stage or another, at the time I called myself "Dj One" - class name I know ;-) back to back with Colin Dee - happy days. Myself and Col were mad into making mix tapes, funny, one time we were in the attic of my parents house and we found a bin bag of these old Audio Digest c60`s, my old man was on this subscription for them, Anyhow - we swiped the tapes, the bag must of had about 500 tapes in there, and over the next year or so, we recorded mixes onto every one of them and passed them out to head across the city at parties ect. I only have a 1 or 2 left at home in my tape archive So 92, 93 our music got darker and darker, we loved the stuff, hardcore breaks and fucked up samples, it was great fun. Even getting record for us was a big task since there was no internet or local shops that did hardcore, but we still managed to get the tunes! around end of 93 to 94 things started to change, break beats were getting tough a little fast, Jungle was already big in the uk, but it was still all hardcore to us. I headed off the the UK (Northampton) where I hooked up with Matt Connell and got deep into the Jungle scene. I spent every last penny I had on vinyl, picked up a couple hundred jungle records, some quite rare now. I really liked the sound & the bass ect and kept up the hard stuff until I realized I was not black and understood the lyrics from Cutty Ranks Lim by Limb Sub Base. SO I turned my back on the Hard Jungle stuff and went down the IDM side of Jungle in 94. There was a lot of crap there but some good stuff as well, to be honest I wouldn’t really play much of it anymore, but I go dig out my ragga stuff every now & again for giggles! Continuing with the IDM 94 stuff, I then got my first record on No-U-Turn and that changed EVERYTHING - completely. That was it, the music I was looking for. It was incredible Ed Rush and those savage beats and the hoover basses - fuck me I was in Jungle Heaven, I couldn’t get enough of it. SO at the time I was mixing up the IDM stuff with No-u-turn, lol listening back to my mixtapes I don’t know how I got away with it! So, off to the USA for the summer of 95, a break from djing - when I got back to Northants I was producing heavily with Octamed on my good old Amiga 500 with 1 meg of RAM, some of the stuff was pretty cool, full of energy - unfortunately back in 2000, I got broken into and the scumbags who took my stuff also took my 100 Amiga floppies with all my old tunes, so all I have left off that stuff is some bad tape recordings, might post 1 up for the laff! SO in 95 the metal heads jungle stuff was getting really good and the Drum & Bass sound for me began to happen, although I didn’t really call it drum & bass for another 2 years or so really. I continued along this style of NUT / IDM and metal heads stuff / EMOTIF ect up until 96ish Around 1997 it started to get silly again! Well at least in Cork we finally got our Pirate Radio Station - RADIO FRIENDLY - it was just what the city needed, and we got a our own show on Saturday Afternoons, it was CARNAGE! I have loads of tapes from them great fun and we had a massive following, thus came more gigs ect around the city For me the music was getting dark again with all the Prototype stuff / Dilly and the likes, really enjoyed it

Ok, So I have lost the plot a little.


I just, finally, purchased a copy of Clarence G - Hyperspace Soundlab, probably the rarest dance / electronic record on the planet.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...

200 worldwide aparently, tis actually James Stinson - drexciya solo project

Harmonics Vol.1

how the west was won - Psyche
If it really is me - Aphex Twin
Oirectine - Boards of Canada
Pulsewidth - Aphex Twin
Clipper - Autechre
Sixtyten - Boards of Canada
Your head my Voice - Aphex Twin
DIagram VII (80’s mix) - D’Archangelo
02 Bike - Autechre
June 9th - Boards of Canada
Bio-Dimension - Redcell
I love my new shears - Boards of Canada
Orchila - As One
Eltec - Maarten Van Der Vleuten

This is my first attempt of mixing harmonically, works well in some places - not in others!

http://meob.podbean.com/