DJBeat's blog and bio where you can find out what makes me tick

Short Bio...

Born in Bridlington (East Yorkshire, UK). Nothing much to do there really.
Got into underground dance music at around 13 years old.
Soon fell in love with the Hardcore and Rave music which was huge around 1991/92.
Bought a set of Technics belt drive decks and a cheap Tandy Realistic mixer, added some big speakers and an amp to the gear, then started buying vinyl and practicing how to mix.
Used to get a train to the local Town's and City's every Saturday with my mates as Bridlington didn’t really have any good music shops.
We went to Scarborough, York, Hull and Leeds for our vinyl.
My mum bought me a set of Kam belt drive decks when I was 15 and then for my 16th birthday, I finally convinced her I needed SL's and she bought me my very first Technics 1210.
Mum couldn’t afford more than the £300 it cost back then so I was so very grateful to her just for the one deck.
I got a part time job and by Xmas that year I had managed to afford my 2nd 1210.
Started putting on under 18's raves at the local youth club with a couple of my friends and then outside school term, at a local holiday camp's very large nightclub, the events were called Elevation and we got a few hundred teenagers attending which was an amazing achievement.
I teamed up with a couple of other like-minded people in the town and we set up a pirate radio station, initially called Acid FM, then renamed as Multicore and then as Plasma.
These days I live in Bradford (West Yorkshire, UK) and have a day job and a family.
I have done plenty of mobile, pub and bar dj'ing over the years and played numerous nightclubs too, also putting on my own events regularly as Reverie Trance Classic's and Solid Force.
I own various pieces of hardware which includes the legendary Access Virus, the Roland MV8800 production studio and the SH201 Keyboard and I have a Collaboration album out on iTunes called CollaborNation, released on my own label DJBeat.
Currently I produce with FL Studio and Ableton and am hoping to get my first official trance release on a recognised label in 2024, fingers crossed of course!

Massive respect goes out to...

Technic's for the SL1200/1210's.
To Access Music GmbH for the awesome Access Virus TI Synthesiser.
Alistair (Voodoo) Reeves for the original inspiration.
To Adam Sandler for Happy Gilmour, Zohan, The Waterboy and many other quality films! 
To Danny Dyer for The Football Factory, The Other Half, The Business and for being a f@@king legend! 
To Top Gear, X-Factor, Hollyoaks, Airwolf, Nightrider and The A-Team for being some the best TV programs ever made! 
To Sonic The Hedgehog, Golden Axe and Streets Of Rage on the Sega Megadrive, Crash Bandicoot and Tomb Raider on the Sony Playstation and Super Mario and Donkey Kong on The Nintendo 64.
To having food and drink on the table and being able to provide for my family.
To God for supplying the planet with a marvellous substance known to many as 'air', I simply couldn't have made it through my life without it!
To Walkers Smiths for Monster Munch Crisps, always loved the Pickled Onion and the Roast Beef flavours, though I especially love the Flaming Hot bags these days! - Note to Walkers - Please stop filling the bags half way, this practice is wrong on so many levels! 
To Akbars Restaurant.
To Aakash Restaurant.
To Pakeezah Supermarket, for also helping to ease my Asian food cravings!
To Aston Martin for the DB9 which I will probably never ever get to own, none the less they deserve a shout out!
To all of the awesome DJ's and music producers around the world.  Sorry there's far too many to mention, however I will name just a couple of the pioneers of trance, to Tiesto
(the old one, before he sold out), to Corsten, to Van Dyk, to Armin and to Oakenfold, real music makers and the very best label owners, DJ's and producers in my opinion! 
To Mum for buying me my very first Technic's turntable when I turned 16, it's just a shame you couldn't afford to buy me a second turntable and also a mixer to go with it as I would have learnt how to mix far quicker.  Though I couldn't use the deck at the time, it did make for a lovely looking ornament! 
Last but certainly not least, to Wreeeeeeakin Steve for putting me on the music map!

Absolutely no respect goes out to...

My Mum for whining constantly about her pension.  It's your own fault and nobody else's, so get over it! 
To Microsoft for the "plug and play" that never ever works. 
To Microsoft again for choosing to update my PC everytime I am in a rush to use it.
To Microsoft yet again for spying on us and reporting everything back to the American government, wasters!
To Cats for fowling in my garden pots and for digging up my daffs!