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Ok, you asked for It. Here's the lowdown on the one like DJ Zippy...

My real name is Stephen and I was born in Plymouth on 22nd December 1981. Nowadays I live near Glasgow. I first got into music in 1992. I was pretty young at this time so I was into the more commercial side of Hardcore. At the time tunes like "Sesame's Treat", "Charly", "Fire", "Way In My Brain", "On A Ragga Tip" etc were in the national UK top 40 charts. I didn't realise there was an underground scene at this stage. My friends and I bought compilation albums like "Rave 92", "Rave Generator" and "Kaos Theory 4". I really liked the breakbeat style back then (and I still do now) because it was so different to anything anyone had heard before. I lost track of the scene for a few years, don't ask me how or why, because I don't know.

Thankfully I rejoined the Raving Massive when Jungle got more popular in 1995. I liked Drum and Bass because it had the familiar breakbeat sound and it was pretty fast (well I thought it was until I heard a DJ Loftgroover tape!!). When Jungle split up into the "Intelligent" and "Jump-up" styles I soon lost track and interest in it.

One day in 1995 I was in the record shop "West End Records" in Clydebank and I saw a Rezerection tape pack. I had heard a lot about Rezerection and so I bought it - it was "The Best Of '95" pack. I was then suddenly drawn in by the bouncy sounds on the Scott Brown tape. A while later I noticed the name Scott Brown on the front of a Scottish magazine called M8, so I bought the mag. Ever since I started reading M8 I have been up-to-date with the scene.

Around this time, the Happy vibe was slowly becoming more and more popular in Scotland compared to the Bouncy and harder styles. Rezerection started booking more big name English DJ's instead of foreign acts, and magazines like M8 had to reflect ths in their coverage of the scene. Without realising, I slowly started to prefer the cheesy sound of Happy Hardcore to the brain-frying sounds of Rotterdam. I then started buying Happy Hardcore-only packs from Helter Skelter, and CD compilations like the United Dance volumes.

In April 1997 I bought my decks and my record collection has increased in size steadily. I have also sent a mixtape to Tom Wilson at Forth FM for him to play on his "Bonus Beats" show......(that's it. click on "back" to exit this page)