I’ve been collecting records for a good 16 or so years now, and DJing for around 13 years. It all kicked off by finding this thing called music in the form of Hardcore as it came out of the smoky acid house/warehouse rave phase back in the early nineties.

From there my music tastes evolved as I discovered lots of new and exciting
music over the years, as the dance scene exploded across the country
creating dozens of genres and styles. Never being one for putting things in
boxes, I soon began mixing up various styles of music regardless of tempo or
genre in marathon 12 hour sets at the infamous NOODLES BBQ's held in the
summers of 98/99/2000.

After much encouragement from friends, I put on a series of one-off parties
called Noodles, which took place in various venues around Nottingham where I could play the sort of records I felt were being ignored. This opened me up to a whole network of local and national DJ's and music lovers which have become good friends, from not only my home city but from around the country.

As for playing out, I'm one of the Basmement Boogaloo residents and
often play at their allday events and overseas boat parties in Croatia. I'm also a member of the Soulbuggin' collective and I DJ regularly at our monthly residency at the Moog bar (every 4th Friday of the month). I can also be found making guest appearances at various nights across Nottingham, such as
Spectrum, Audiophile, Percussion, the myhouse-yourhouse alldayers and the
Smugglers Inn events. I've been very fortunate to play alongside great DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Greg Wilson, Norman Jay, Benji B, Quantic, Bugz in the Attic, Red Rack Em, Yam Who, Stuart Patterson, Dave Jarvis and many many more.

I've also have my own online radio show which goes out every Sunday 2pm -
4pm on myhouse-yourhouse.net LIVE or you can listen on demand at
http://www.beane.podomatic.com