Director of Torqueo Ltd, Webmaster & Co-Founder of Salsa Central and Salsurban.
Main SC Responsibilities: Design, Web Maintenance, Music Reviews, Charts & Playlists, Salsa Central Radio.
A Little bit about me
I was into hip-hop when I was at school and started dj'ing that when i was 13 with my best mate Pritt, who now runs King Of The Beats, a Hip Hop film production company who are producing 'Producer Battle' films.
I then went through a stage of Dj'ing House music, and won a mixtape cometition in Muzik magazine. I played a set on radio 1's Essential Mix in 96, then spent a few years dj'ing across the UK, including Cream, Ministry Of Sounds, Creamfields, Gatecrasher, etc. After a while, I moved on to dj'ing funk, breaks and hip-hop in bars, then moved to London in 1999.
Moved back to the midlands a few years later and got involved in the Nu-Skratch project, helped build the website with Chris Malbon, and did the DVD Production on Turntable Trixters, a documentary about the old UK Hip-Hop group, Hijack, who got signed to Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicte label. The film ended up being shown at the National Film Theatre in London, in 2006.
I met Mel in 2005 and was introduced to Salsa - I already knew the music from my dj'ing days, and have a small collection of latin vinyl which I used to play out, albeit not to the Salsa crowd. I was blown away by the Salsa social scene, and have been progressing (very) slowly with my dancing since.
The rest, as they say, is history........
