John first got into dance music when he was about 11 years old with the sounds of Bomb The Bass and the Streetsounds Electro series being particular favourites. Since then, mainly thanks the Mary-Anne Hobbs Breezeblock show on BBC Radio 1 (which he listened to religiously in his teens) he has spent a lot of time and money discovering and listening to new sounds. In the year 2000 John decided he'd had enough of just listening and decided to splash out on some shiny new Technics decks and he's never looked back. In his career so far as a DJ he has played many styles, starting off with dirty house records and then gradually working his way through the mainly dark and techy genres of electronic music including Progressive house, Tech House, Electro and Breaks. During the first three years of his life as a DJ John had 2 residencies and was runner up in the now defunct Muzik magazines Bedroom Bedlam competition, won the iDJ Reader mix competition and been one of the www.protonradio.com featured artists. More recently John was the winner in DJ Magazine's Pick 'n' Mix section for December 2006. Nowadays John is best known for his numerous mixes which are usually a melting pot of machine funk electro, dubstep, glitchy breaks, techno and any other filth that happens to be lying around at the time. In 2005 John moved away from the traditional two decks and a mixer and started using Ableton Live. A move which he feels has given him the freedom to be more creative and allowed a wider selection of music to be played that would not always be possible on decks. It's also thanks to this new technology that John has become more intersted in producing his own tracks, what these will sound like is anyone's guess. Look out for some tracks (hopefully) coming soon-ish (maybe). John is joint owner and A+R of the Digital Distortions and Limetree Projects labels.
