Hello everyone, I am known as the Wax Equestrian.

I first became introduced to the 'house' culture back in 1988, on a Sunday afternoon , in a club at the side of a boating lake near Heathrow Airport.

"Queen's" was the name of the venue. It was, I believe, an event run by the 'Flying' crew. Imagine after a few years of 'clubbing' and not finding what I was looking for, to be all of a sudden thrust into an up and coming scene where you could wear what you liked, the music was new and exciting, and you could dance your arse off with no fear of a pasteing from the usual clutter of pissed up blokes clinging to the walls.

Everyone was having a great time, me included, and i felt i'd found a second home.

From Queen's the crowd used to then go on to the Sunday night do at Studio Valbonne's in Maidenhead.

I also frequented Slough Centre, The Park in Kensington, Shoom (occasionally), The Tudor Rose in southall, and numerous outdoor events and parties.

I had for many years been an avid buyer of vinyl, though up until now there was very little 'proper' dance music around. Now I could go out to specialist shops and buy the tunes that were moving me on the dancefloor (or mudbath, as the outdoor do's usually turn into)

After hearing mix tapes of various dj's , and the effects that mixing had on me as a dancer, I knew exactly what i wanted to do....................................

After having been influenced by the vinyl mastery of such dj's as Andy Weatherall, Fabio & Grooverider, Carl Cox and other unfortunately unknown vinyl experts (Respect to Justin Cale, not sure if he's still playing out anywhere, but this guy was shit hot in those days)

My first fumbled attempts to mix DJ in 1988 , were on a pair of hired belt-drive disco decks.

As you can imagine the first few attempts were far from perfect, but after a few months I managed to knock up what I thought was a fairly good tape.

It was around now that old skool hardcore (I mean Joey Beltram, and WARP stuff) came about, and i was once again heavily influenced by a dj called Alex Hazzard

But it was during a visit to 'Slough Record Centre' two years later that things started to move properly for me. Whilst there I bumped into another DJ called 'Black Mark'. I got chatting to him about buying a pair of decent decks and gave him a copy of said disco-decks mix tape (which I just happened to have in my pocket).

When I rang him again a few days later re buying decks, he told me he was quite impressed by the tape considering it was done under 'laccy band power' and another meet was arranged.

Black Mark had grown up in the New York bronx and was one of the best scratch-mix-hip-hop & hardcore dj's I'd ever heard (or seen) in action, and was playing on a pirate radio station called 'Green Apple' .

He put me in touch with the station organiser and within a few weeks I was playing old hardcore and techno on the radio regularly. Within a few months of this, around the time I was 21, I borrowed some cash and invested in a beaten up old pair of Technics 1200's.

That was 10 years ago now, and I'm still using that same pair of decks and believe me they've seen some action (not to mention being flung around the room at times, but we won't go there...), and they are still going relatively strong, so I can definitely recommend Technics for their ruggedness to any budding jocks reading this.

Then around 9 years ago I met Pokey, and the rest is, or should that be,

the near future is going to be.................history

Music wise I tend to play a bit of everything, as long as it's what I call 'house'. This generally means any of the recent dance music pigeon holes as long as I like it. ( House, Breakbeat, Nu-Breakz, Tribal, Trancy, Tech- House, Hard House, Techno (remember that ?) , UK garage, Old skool Hardcore, Nu Skool Hardcore, Bigbeat, Funky house, Deep house, Old Skool house, hard-step, 1-step, 2-step and a tickly-under-there............shall I go on ?).

Basically , if a tune moves me by the head, heart & hips I'll play it when the time is right.

My mixing style has been described as 'Aggressive yet Seamless'. I now tend to be very quick at beat matching and keeping the groove running, and am getting a bit more adventurous with my scratching, but hey , I could bullshit all day about what I do.......the only way for you to decide for yourself is to have a listen.

More recently I've started to make my own tracks in my front room at home, again I tend to make music in a number of styles , basically following the 'Head, Heart & Hips' rule as before.

Currently have a 4 track bootleg EP in the shops (Feb 2002), which is doing fairly well so far and have plans for further releases in the very near future.

Myself and Pokey are constantly being asked into more and more studios to produce work once people have heard the kind of stuff we do, so look out for new releases and maybe some remixes later on this year !!

(search for 'equestrian' in the music charts section.)

or check out our internet radio show

When I will be playing a load of my/our tracks along with general release tracks.

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Last Updated - February 2002