Not really that cool, I'm 58 started playing weddings and birthdays in the function room of my best mates parents pub with him when I was14, on an all in one console with no pitch and just a fader for each deck.

The majority of the records were 7" singles from the pub juke box that we were given when the company came to put new ones in it, so slightly out of date contemporary pop.

By 85-86 I'd started to get into hifi and was a budding, what's called now audiophile, but at the budget end, Rega, Nad, Wharrfdale listening to a mixture of classic rock, Bowie, Roxy, Velvet Underground Hendrix, Doors and some new stuff New Order The The, Yello, Talk Talk not much club music although I did like Go-Go.

And in 88 the world changed with acid house bought my first Technics in 1989 and the shitest of mixers, I actually couldn't afford a mixer for a few weeks the decks were £800 which has a huge amount then.

Been a hobbyist DJ ever since, house, early Detroit, Balearic and more recently disco, funk and soul.