ex-professional DJ and part time lecturer... I have been 'into' music since I was a wee boy - apparently I was asking my parents to buy me records from the age of 2 (all be it an early interest in Glam Rock and the Rollers!) From that I progressed to an enthusiasm for new wave / romantics (with an obsession for Adam and the Ants) until I discovered Northern Soul and Disco in the early 1980s (thanks to a local youth disco that played what was obviously the DJs own passion). I became fascinated with the electronic sound of the 1980s and loved anything that sounded vaguely 'computer created' including music by Joy Division / New Order as well as anything Vince Clarke was involved in.. It was however another youth disco that took place in a nightclub in Newcastle that really captured my imagination - this was a New York inspired disco called Sidewalk in which I was introduced to breakdancing, electro and essentially Hip Hop.