AIR TRANCE PROFILE

Got into house back in my college days were I used to go back to Paris and record hours and hours of tapes from "Radio FG" (Parisian Gay Radio Station now very well established).

A few year after going to my first club I was round a friend’s house who borrowed a set of decks. I had a go and obviously could not mix anything after about 2 hours of trying. From that moment it became a personal challenge to learn to play. Being a student I was not able to go out and buy a set of proper decks straight away, so I had to put up with a Belt driven decks. (Technics 200 (or something?) with rolling pitch control and a Hitachi belt driven (with rolling pitch control) with a small mixer and ghetto-blaster.

Musical influences:

• Depeche Mode
• Pet Shop Boys
• Metallica
• New Order
• House, Techno and Trance from it early stages (back in ‘89)

This did the job while I learned and drove my house-mates and neighbours round the bend day and night with the awful noise I was making and shouting "Listen to this, it’s a mix ! Good mix yeah?". I did countless tapes and l would listen to them over and over again, give them out to my friends and then do some more. When I went to France for my university placement was where I really got practising. I was playing an average of 3 to 4 hours a day. There was so little to do that was the only way I kept my sanity. I learned to start first thing in the morning while brushing my teeth and eating and drinking etc. And over in France they’d never heard anything like it. So I got playing out there and this continued when I returned to England.

Also during this learning stage, I would spend my nights clubbing, just sat with my arms over the DJ box staring and observing every move every DJ I saw made. Watching all the different techniques and tricks. Also a good way of picking up names of new tracks. Which becomes a great game and very addictive too. Hear a track and go to all lengths and any price to get it first.

After this time it was time to try and get myself established which is an ever-increasing difficult task. I managed to get sets here and there and a few short residencies but nowadays every kid has a set of decks and the competition is fierce. So that’s when I decided to create my own web-site. To show my self up and tell people what I’m about. All I want to do is play records to people and make them have a good time. I like making people happy. I’m not in it for money or fame or big-headedness, just the joy of playing. I see it like playing an instrument and when I do a set I can just really get into it and loose myself.

• All time favourites:

 Greatest Moments:

1. Meeting my girlfriend (Zoë) at Homelands 1999.
2. The first time I heard a good tape of myself and thought this is good and wanted to dance to it.
3. Seeing Paul Van Dyk (at Creamfields, Homelands and The Opera house).
4. Standing in the box with Sasha looking over 1,000.
5. Spilling a pint of lager one of the decks John Digweed was playing (accidentally), and him just laughing it off.
6. NYE @ Club UK, London, 1996-97.
7. First time I ever went clubbing and heard "Hold that sucker down" at a little club called The Rhino in Southampton.

 DJ Gigs: 

• "La Spiralle", Reims (France) 3 month residency
• "Cherries" @ Guildhall Tavern, Winchester (UK) 3 month residency
• Barbican Center, London (UK)
• "Gives you wings", Harpenden (UK)
• "Gives you wings the return", London Bridge (UK)
• "Cherries all-nighter", Southampton (UK)
• "Cherries Nottingham", (UK)
• "Level One", Southampton (UK)
• Cafe Face, Val D'Isere (France)
• Club 21, Val D'Isere (France)
• Various free parties