When did you start listening to dance music?
" Around the age of 11 probably. My Mum's 70's Disco collection".

When did you start making music?
" Playing music at around 14 / 15, Recording at home aged 17. Recording professionally age 19."

What made you decide that’s what you wanted to do?
" I Don't know if I ever made that decision, it just happened really".

What is your own favourite production?
" The Soul City Experience - Let's Do It", A co-production with Brian Tappert, purely for the situation it was created in. We had just met, I invited back to my studio and we stayed up all night until it was finished. It was the beginning of a great friendship."

What would you say were your musical influences?
" Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Nile Rogers, John Carpenter, Shep Pettibone, Eddie Perez, MAW, MK are a few."

How often do you spend in the studio?
" My sessions can last from 8-48 hours".

How often can we see you behind the decks?
" This year has been a production year for me mainly, but usually I play every weekend".

How did you get your first gig? Where? When? How old etc?
" A co-worker's birthday party, I was 15, it was in a pub in Walthamstow, it went great and I got several more bookings out of it. I blagged the job by telling the guy I was a DJ. In fact I had never played out before, only in my bedroom."

Best club ever played?
" ECU. Rimini, Italy".

You had a set at the Soulfuric party at WMC – what’s the connection with the Soulfuric guys?
" I have known both Brian Tappert & Mark Pomeroy for a long time now, they are both good friends, in fact Brian was my best man at my wedding in Las Vegas recently."

Nice & Ripe – what’s the real story?
" I got together with this guy, we started the label together. It was at a time when I was just starting out with house music production, '93, I locked myself up in the studio, never went clubbing, just listened to pirates, and several years and many records later, having no idea how popular it or I had become I was told that one of my records had sold a certain amount by a distributor, it was not the amount I had been told by my partner. So after a bit of digging around I discovered that this had been the case with quite a few other releases and dissolved the partnership. To rub salt in the wounds all of a sudden my production names were appearing all over the shop produced by different people. It's all good though, Karma is a great thing and i'm sure it will come knocking in the relevant place."

NnG – What made you and Norris (Windross) start working together?
" We met and got on like a house on fire, or should that be a garage on fire."

And who is / are Bump & Flex?
" I am the production side of the duo and Kate Ross is my writing partner".

How does it feel to know you’re behind some true anthems in both the UK Garage scene and the House scene?
" I am proud to have played my part and if I made a few people smile along the way it can't be a bad thing can it."

How do you continue to keep making quality two-step and house tunes? Do you find it difficult to keep your finger on the pulse within two genres?
" No, not really. I just make what I feel is good music, and to be honest, I don't think there is much of a pulse out there at the moment anyway. It will pick up again soon though."

Swing City Label – How involved are you with the day-to-day running? How did it all begin?
What are you currently working on (if anything) & is there anything to look out for in the near future?
" I have nothing to do with the day to day running of Swing City or Wyze Productions. I am a studio slut. I am currently writing and producing with an artist for Telstar called Nicole Russo, I have just completed the 'Ethnicity' 2 Part 12" for Swing City and I have a bunch of other things currently on the firm including a couple of vocal house projects and a funky Oldskool 4x4 UK Garage outing."

You were in a school electro band, which modelled themselves on the Pet Shop Boys! Tell us a bit more about that…….!!! (No comment is not a valid answer!!)
" Ok firstly, 'Electro band' makes it sound way cooler than it was. In actuality it was a bunch of kids making fools of themselves but having fun at the same time while performing dodgy renditions of 80's electro Pop acts like the aforementioned. I was the keyboard player. Suffice to say that we never played the Albert Hall."

I read in your biog on you website you always thought you were going to be an actor. Would you’ve been a big screen, Hollywood actor or more of a soap or theatre kind of actor??
" At the time I would have opted for the RADA approach, probably ending up performing Shakespeare in some lazy London backwater town in front of a bunch of pensioners on the old half price ticket flex. Given the chance now, Hollywood baby, or maybe some grimey low budget B movie. It depends, I don't do naked though."

When was the last time you got drunk? What were you drinking?
" A couple of weeks ago at Mortimers on Berners Street and it was all thanks to my mate the White Russian."

Are you a quiet night in type of guy or some one who’s always up for “largin’ it”?
" I can be both. I can be the most boring old fart or the loudest annoyance in the house."

Where do you go to rave when you’re not playing out?
" I don't 'Rave' as a rule.. Not any more. I used to be a proper hooded topped, acid dancing, E popping, head in the bass bin casualty. But nowadays I'm more of a funky bar kind of person."

Mel has asked me to find out how the honeymoon was – where did you go and how is married life?
" It was in Vegas where we got married, and lets just say it was messy. In fact, true story, On the day of leaving I went out on to the strip and bought a bunch of things, one of which was a cigarette lighter. We're talking proper tacky tourist style thing here. I didn't really pay much attention to it, It did it's job and I did mine at the roulette table. On my last bet I had about a hundred left and just threw it all on the number 7. Getting up ready to leave my heart nearly stopped when it rolled in. In fact the Pit bosses and several staff in the area also needed some Clooney action as the dealer started counting out my mountain of moolah. After giving the guys on the table, (What was in hindsight), a well over inflated tip we made our way to the waiting car. I went to light a stick to settle my still rattling nerves when I noticed the lighter. It had a picture of a few numbers of a roulette table on it and a ball resting in one of the pits.. Yep, Number 7. So yeah, married life is a blessing."

Right – Choose one or the other!

Burger King or Mc Donald’s
" The clown stole my heart from a young age, besides BK ditched the Mushroom Double Swiss - I got out after that".

Blonds or Brunettes
" Brunettes"

Ibiza or Ayia Napa
" Ibiza hands down."

Lager or Spirits
" Spirits. I don't do the 15 pints thing. 15 bottles of Jack maybe...."

US Garage or UK Garage
" Nasty.... Ok, how about Good Music, whatever genre it may be".

Playstation or Nintendo
" PS2, Grand Theft Auto 3, nuff said."

Beckham on the right or in the middle
" He could play on the Moon for all I know about Football".