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Konkrete - 22-03-2008 - 10.00pm - Mikee Merge, Tony Killer, Deviouz Kid, Supa Shaw, Wizkid & Mac 10

Konkrete - 22-03-2008 - 09.00pm - Mikee Merge, Tony Killer, Deviouz Kid, Supa Shaw, Wizkid & Mac 10

Konkrete - 08-03-2008 - 10.00pm - Mikee Merge, Fireocious, I-Lodica, Mac 10, N-Zyme, Nitez & Lipz

Konkrete - 08-03-2008 - 09.00pm - Mikee Merge, Fireocious, I-Lodica, Mac 10, N-Zyme, Nitez & Lipz

Konkrete - 20-02-2008 - 12.00am - Mikee Merge & Al Cappuccino

Konkrete - 20-02-2008 - 11.00pm - Mikee Merge & Al Cappuccino

Konkrete - 20-10-2007 - 10.00pm - Mikee Merge, Mr. Lager, Fireocious, Dubz, Gomez, Johne Bravo & Easty

Konkrete - 06-10-2007 - 10.00pm - Mikee Merge & Dubz

Konkrete - 06-10-2007 - 09.00pm - Mikee Merge & Dubz

Konkrete - 30-06-2007 - 10.00pm - Mikee Merge, Lolo, Fireocious, Juicy & Deadly

Konkrete - 30-06-2007 - 09.00pm - Mikee Merge, Lolo, Fireocious, Juicy & Deadly

Konkrete - 25-06-2007 - 02.00am - Mikee Merge, Mr. Lager, Darkman & Mars

Konkrete - 21-06-2007 - 06.00am - Mikee Merge, Cachet & Neon

Konkrete - 21-06-2007 - 05.00am - Mikee Merge, Cachet & Neon

Konkrete - 21-06-2007 - 04.00am - Mikee Merge, Cachet & Neon

Konkrete - 16-06-2007 - 10.00pm - Mikee Merge, Johne Bravo, Sandman, Liebo, Easty & Cachet

Konkrete - 16-06-2007 - 09.00pm - Mikee Merge, Johne Bravo, Sandman, Liebo, Easty & Cachet

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"When some big kids called the Prodigy emerged onto TV screens with a track called 'Charly' I was about ten-years-old. This, and other hardcore dance acts such as Liquid and SL2, I was seeing on TV shows such as Dance Energy with Normski, drew my attention to the harder side of techno music. My mates at school were trading flyers for raves such as Fantazia, Utopia, Love of Life and Obsession, along with badly bootlegged tapes recorded at raves! I had no older siblings to get this stuff from but I found Mighty Force and Rockafellas, two underground ticket outlets in my hometown who also stocked hardcore mixtapes. So from then on I spent every penny on rave merchandise, despite being too short to see over the shop counter in the early days!

By the age of 13 I had realised the process of mixing records together, and was making mixtapes for myself using any medium I could connect to my parent's amplifier! I broke a few of my step-dads styli during my scratching which got me in trouble, but whenever they were out I was back on his old Technics with my handful of jungle techno records annoying our neighbours! It wasn't old skool back then kids, it was hardcore. :)

When the hardcore jungle techno split in 1995 I was playing the breakbeat piano happy stuff, but as the darkness of that ragga era of jungle calmed down into a more hip hop influenced jump-up style of drum 'n' bass, together with the intelligent liquid vibe coming in more and more on certain labels like Moving Shadow, I soon began playing jungle more than hardcore. I still love techno big-time but being limited to earth time of only 24 hours in a seven day week to listen to all this wicked music I had to give the 4-beat hardcore a break.

In 1998 I took time out from jungle drum 'n' bass to delve into my love of hip hop again. This was partly due to the fact that I was a lone junglist amongst many rap fanatics, and partly because the drum 'n' bass genre had been coming with too many tense tunes. Almost every producer, even many of the mellow ones, were on one militant robot tip, waiting the turn of the century, trying to be as futuristic as absolutely possible, and some of the soulfulness in the music got lost in the mechanism for a few months. Pre-millennial tension? I wasn't really feeling most tunes I heard in 1998, although there were many exceptions such as the mighty Mr. Jonny L and Optical! This was also the year I began experimenting with sound editing at college and on my computer at home.

In 2000 once the celebrations were out of the way I took a trip to the far-east for a year and took some time out from the music to experience life in another culture. Even though I never thought I'd end up coming back to the miserable weather and culture of the UK, I did. I moved to Oxford, where I also had family, for a change of scenery. Within a year I had linked up with the town's most slammin' jump-up DJs and MCs, BBL Sound.

In the years following I took time out of DJ-mixing to concentrate fully on sound engineering and music production, and create my own music for my one-off DJ sets.

I owe all my thanks to people like Ratty, LTJ Bukem, Easygroove, Carl Cox, Ellis Dee, Sy and Hype (amongst countless others of course) for if it was not for the recordings of their sets at UK raves in the early 1990s I wouldn't have been inspired to take part in the scene, and probably wouldn't be alive today!"


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