To start from the start, Neil has been into electronic music since coming out of his mother's loin and being deprived of oxygen for several hours. Thanks to a passing midwife who cut his cord, he now lives for all to see and hear. He was raised in a simple way, but after a toddler labotomy his magnificent mind soon tuned in to the waveform transmissions which pumped out of his fisher price wireless. Tip-toeing through primary school in the mid-eighties, he was visited by a semi-professional break dancer with a crew called Electro Shock, introducing Neil to the sounds of electro. Eight years old, a tiny Neil stepped on the train and travelled across the continent to Cob Records in Bangor, where he purchased records marked with the Street Sounds Label. < Battling though puberty, despite the occasional disappearance into his bedroom with a poster of Samantha Fox, Neil's attention was almost entirely focussed on a radio show presented by a man called John Peel. Underground acts like 808 State, Richie Hawtin and Jeff Mills caught his ear, and introduced him to a new, beat-driven electronic sound. Acid house techno had arrived. At that time the main source for this underground sound were DJ sets on tapes he used to get from his older mates who went to raves(hacienda,quady park,the eclipse).At that time neil devised different ways of editing music using a complex system of wires, cassett decks and a turn table to make audio mixes using songs recorded off the john peel show and his vynil collection but eventualy saving enough to buy some turntables. Neil went off to college,to study engineering, but balanced his studies with promoting Art of Noise nights at local night-club, the Phoenix, with producer, Dez Williams. They were the first electro techno nights ever started in the legendary club, introducing acts such as The Von Trapp Family, H from Red-Seal Records, John Knuckle and Orbit resident John Berry to North Wales. neil was then known as fusion. In '92, he was resident at the Doors of Perception and Order to Dance nights at Bangor night-club, The Octagon. and DJ'd at countless other nights and free parties. By then. the scene was really picking up, and Neil was invited to DJ further afield, to Leeds and Bradford. Throughout the nineties, in-between doing nights around the country, and as far afield as Thailand, Neil founded a radio station, known as "The Other Side f.m". It played all kinds of underground music, ranging from drum n'bass to electro and techno, and featured a wide variety of odd-ball conversation topics. He later went to Detroit with Mind Your Head Records (Grimes) to the DEMF, meeting all his music idols who originated from the Motor City.Along side his job as an aircraft technician he still plays around north wales having played with justin robinson,hybride at the manipulate nights he recently played with the creamfeilds tour......
Neil has now started producing his own tracks, and invites you to listen to them here...