I am not a DJ but I am totally obsessed with House music in its many different forms. I started listening to house in 1989, I was 17 years old and was almost at my last year of school. Back then it was a sound coming out of Chicago called “Garage Music” It then became known as "Acid House" with the smiley face revoIution at the tail end of the 1980s. I have to give a lot of credit to the pirate radio station "Fantasy FM" London's dedicated House music station circa 1989 - 1991, here I heard a lot of what sounded like repetitive noise but I also heard some sounds that were truly remarkable. I would often listen to Fantasy FM through the night always with a cassette waiting to record anything that I liked. This was how I started building my early collection of random tracks on tape, staying in on Saturday nights with my finger ready to press “record” was normal for me, anything to get that special track!

The first cassettes I actually bought were Guru Josh's "infinity" together with artists like A guy called Gerald's “Voodo ray” , A Man called Adam’s “Barefoot in the Head” (still love that to this day) and of course the AMAZING "Pacific State" by 808 State ( a remix of which features on my "Deepness is Served Mix). From there onwards I devoured anything remotely "different" to my staple diet of Jazz, Soul, Funk and Hip Hop.
Definitive tracks like Mr Fingers’ “Can you feel it?” In which the very philosophy of House Music was spelt out word for word to the masses was as inspirational then as it is today. “This then became our House and House Music was Born!”

In September 1991 I went to the opening of London’s Ministry of Sound where I was fortunate to meet Mark Moore (formerly of S Express), whose vast library of music which filled two rooms in his house left me speechless. With opening sets from American house DJs such as Larry Levan, David Morales, C+C Music Factory, Roger Sanchez and Tony Humphries, it was the UK’s first 24-hour dance license nightclub, and had a 150dB(A) sound-system built by Austen Derek. Ministry of Sound London quickly grew in popularity as THE clubbing venue to be at for House music lovers. Despite all this, for the first three years you could not even buy a beer at the bar due to the lack of an alcohol license and their notoriously strict door policies kept long queues outside even at 7am! Thanks to Mark Moore I always got in.

1992/93 was more about "Fun City" and The Astoria with the sounds of DJ Hype, Slipmat, Fabio and Carl Cox but last but not least was a DJ named Pete Tong (back then he was just a name I kept hearing on Judge Jules' show on Kiss Fm).

From 1994 onwards my focus shifted back to the traditional vocal uplifting house music like the sounds of the sublime Robert Owens (I’ll be your friend), Cathy Dennis (Do you feel me?), India (Love and Happiness!) and of course the most awesome Lil Louis' “Lonely People”. Another real inspiration was the classic Frankie Knuckles’ Anthem “Tears” (which features on my "For the Love of House part 1" mix) this was simply mind blowing and still gives me goose bumps to this day! These artists laid the foundations to my soundtrack of the mid 1990s. All this was set against a backdrop of my deep love of contemporary Jazz, Hip Hop, Rhythm and Blues and Soul music, none of this was ever for one second left behind or ever forgotten.

1999 – 2003 saw the birth of The Hedkandi brand which to me was like a breath of fresh air, they simply blew the doors off with extended plays of what I call Soulphuric or “Disco House” music. It was a celebration of everything I had previously known and was credited with a collection of Disco Kandi, Disco Heaven and Beach House CDS all of which I bought with religious dedication. All this was complimented by the weekly Friday Hedkandi show on Jazz Fm by Chris Coco.

The early 2000’s were mostly focused on The Naked Music/ Blue Six Brand and the sublime sounds of Lisa Shaw, it was yet another blast of much needed fresh air.
In August 2008 Fate took me to a certain Balearic Island known as Ibiza and since then my love of house music has gone through all kinds of enlightenment, revolution and EVOLUTION. This place introduced me to a certain sound I would have never considered as “my type” of music before and I LOVED it! I was introduced to a new sound with producers like Deadmau5, DJs like Eric Prydz, Armin Van Burren, Mark Knight, Sasha & John Digweed, Eric Morillo, Arno Cost and Sebastian Ingrosso. What these people were doing with old school classics like Robin S’ “Show me Love” , Inner City’s “Good Life” and Eurythymics’s “Sweet Dreams” was just awe inspiring! I didn’t want to leave the Island!

I immediately named it "Fantasy Island” but the part of Ibiza that really lived up to that name is a small bar/restaurant at the end of a beach called Platja de Ses Salinas, it is known simply as “Sa Trinxa”. I have to say this place has to be credited with opening a brand new musical window in my life with resident DJs, Andi Piper, John Sa Trinxa, and Marcello Marchitto, these guys have inspired some of what you will hear from me on my “Ear Conditioning” mixes. I mean who could dream of hearing a dance music version of Nina Simone’s “Here comes the Sun”? Hall & Oates’ “I can’t go for that” or The Balearic Incarnation version of Chris Rea’s “On the Beach”? I was dazed, confused and elated (and didn’t want to come back to London).

Anyone can put songs in some kind of order and burn a disc etc but I have always been extremely picky about music, anyone who has been with me when I hear something I like can testify to the mad scramble that I go through to find out what the name of the track is.

As I said, I'm not a DJ but you can be guaranteed that anything posted here will be the very finest of the sounds I have available to me.

I have spoken enough,I will let the music do the rest....................so enjoy!