Stu J “I had just turned 18 when I first started my legal club land DJ career. This would have been 1986”. Stuart Devlin AKA Stu J explains to me during our evening phone call. “It was a gig with my mate Stevo. It was a club in Southampton called Barberellas. But before this we […]
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Monita “I started to DJ in 1989, after I got myself my first set of decks. I had always been into music, whether that was disco, electro, hip hop or gangsta rap. And as soon as hardcore and Belgium techno hit the estate, I was drawn to that instantly. It resonated with me. I had […]
Skrufneck It was an evening in June when James Pritchard and I managed to hook up for our chat on the phone. I am getting a bit of a pro now at doing shorthand interviews, though after about 3 sheets of A4 my hand is starting to feel the pain! It’s a young man game […]
REECE PROJECT The Reece Project – another one of DJ Phantasy’s many aliases. And he had a good few of them, that’s for sure! “I was always making music and putting them out under different aliases…. I don’t actually know why I was doing that to be honest. Looking back now I should have just kept […]
Phantasy “To be honest, I completely forgot I made them!” – It’s a wet Saturday morning in May 2021 and I am on the phone to DJ Phantasy, chatting about the first set of unreleased tunes that he has recently found. “The DATs were sat in my office, and for years I have wanted to […]
Ova Doce “The whole vibe was dark, the DJs were just trying to out-do each other with darker and darker tunes and it just didn’t seem like people were really enjoying themselves. So I stopped going to raves after that night” – That was pretty much where we left Nathan Ova Doce during our last […]
Exodus Al first started to DJ back in 1988, inspired by the acid house sound that was taking a hold of the country during that year. The Summer Of Love was a wonderful experience for those lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. And DJ Ruffcut was one of those […]
Justice It’s been over a year now since myself and Tony Bowes chatted about those days gone by. We were both part of that deeper sound of drum and bass that swept across the globe in the mid-nineties, both of us signed to Moving Shadow, both of us creating sonic soundscapes of depth and emotion. […]
Fugitive Today is a momentous day, it’s the day that myself, Dave, Shaun and Olly Underdog got together for the first time since 1994! Back in the day, Dave, Olly and myself use to live together. Olly ran Underdog from the loft, Dave had his bedroom studio on the ground floor and I was on […]
Ellis Dee Well, this is the fifth release I have so far done with Mr. Majestic aka the don papa Ellis Dee. And I know this won’t be the last either! This guy has been at the forefront of the rave scene since its inception and is still out there (covid aside) plying his skills […]