Aged 15, Joe’s horizons broaden considerably as he attends legendary hardore night “Rage” with Jem Haynes. Friday morning science class was never quite the same again. This year sees Joe buy a pair of Soundlab decks and a Sequential Circuits drum machine!!

Aged 17, Joe promotes several parties at The Brain and The Gardening Club. This is Joes first chance to DJ in a club.

Joe releases his first record using the name “Luger” The record was a collaboration with Jem Haynes AKA DJ search and was released on The Leaf Label.

Joe buys his first proper studio setup: an Akai S3000, Yamaha YS200 synth, a Sony FX unit, a cheap compressor and a big Soundcraft mixer. He moves back into his family home and proceeds to teach himself the art of making beats.

Joe teams up with old friend Tony Wilson (aka Spykid) under the name “The Occupiers”. Together they create some of the most warped Akai twist-up hopno tec ever heard, releasing records on Language and Lo Recordings amongst others.

Joe meets Tam Cooper and together they establish a more substantial studio including Pro Tools hard disk recording.

Joe and Tam move into a house in Streatham with an attic to use as a studio. Noise abatement notices quickly appear complaing of “loud drumming late at night”.

In order to make more noise Joe and Tam move the studio to a premises in Farringdon. Long sessions ending in Macdonalds breakfast were the order of the day.

Joe works as in-house engineer at the Renegade Hardware studios. Joe puts what he has learnt into practice and creates some hard-as-nails Drum+Bass. In the process he also learns a lot more about production and heavy beats.

97-98 Joe works as live sound engineer for The Sex Monkeys, a live Hip Hop band in which Tam played guitar. Joe engineered at the Jazz Café and also Ronnie Scotts.