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I am a self-exiled Greek, have spent the last 18 years between Manchester and Berlin (and Erlangen and a bit of Düsseldorf).

Having spent a fortune on records, tapes and going to live gigs in Greece; a year of learning how to be a B-girl when I was 15; 9 months of being a night-time radio presenter on Greek Radio for a Cretan folk music programme (well, I was my dad's sidekick); a 2-year speck as the singer of two University bands in Manchester ("None of the Above" who are still going!! and "Blue 2"); very random attempts to learn the bass guitar (I always end up composing Joy Division's "Transmission" all over again); and 10 years of drug-free clubbing all over Europe, I finally accepted my teenage fantasy to DJ and did a workshop with Donna Maya from "Die Patinnen" in Hamburg in 2001 and was wondering why I hadn't done it earlier! I started teaching myself on the decks of three generous, kind and wonderful mates: DJ Ainge who had even given me the keys to her flat to go and practise while she was at work!!!!, DJ Stef the Cat who gave me my first ever gig at the Schnabelbar and lots of encouragement, and Thomas, an avid techno DJ himself, who gave me his whole gear while he was abroad - ein massives Dankeschön geht an Euch alle! I was lucky to get my first gigs already in late 2002 and 2003 at the Schnabelbar in Berlin. These were followed by others in 2004 at the "Übernachtslounge" club in Dresden and at the "Köpi", an alternative cultural centre and squat in Berlin.

Back in Manchester in 2005, I got my own Technics and my basic Stanton mixer and I also started a course in Studio Engineering, Music Production and ProTools at the School of Sound Recording (SSR). In early 2006 I got to play a couple of times at a Manchester-based pirate (then) radio station, Unity Radio, and later in the year I did a course in MIDI and Music Synthesis using Cubase SX and Reason again at the SSR. So I started producing my own tech-Dubstep tunes (check out my music profile).

In May 2007 I got to play at my favourite club in Manchester, the "Attic", at Caro Snatch's "Rare As a Green Dog" night which got awarded funding from FUTURESONIC FESTIVAL, followed by another RaGD gig, a gig at HIT & RUN in Manchester at my favourite "Attic" again and a couple of private parties at "Saki Bar".

2008 brought several gigs (Pangaea Festival, Plutonic, Open Plan, Fluff, Rare As a Green Dog, EQ! Soundsystem), as well as a residence at EQ! SOUNDSYSTEM.

2009 has landed me another Residency at PLUTONIC and has also taken me further afield: Huddersfield (Powah, Sub-urbia) and Liverpool (Heavy Rot8tion). I did guest mixes on Radio shows: Unity Manchester (S-Man's DnB show), DiversityFM 103.5 Lancaster (Musicbox) and Bassboxradio Bulgaria (Nomadic Takeover), so no doubt I will have to quit my day job soon ;)

When I started off, I was mixing mainly oldskool upbeat bouncy dark and fast Drum'n'Bass and Jungle (and when it's not fast I like speeding it up :)) (Check and download my "Rumble in the Jungle" mix on DUBEARTH).

In 2008, I started playing out Dubstep too (LOVE AT FIRST SOUND!!!). Check my "Deep Dark & Bouncy Dubstep" mix on GOTDARKER) and on my player here. On the player, you can also find my "Dummy's Guide to Dubstep" guest mix I did for the Musicbox show on DiversityFM (which was aired on 23rd and 25th April 2009), complete with Lee's introduction and final words. You can shuffle between the two mixes by clicking on FWD >> on the player. I've also played out some minimal techno too, so I guess my goal for the future is to play out Schranz and hard techno as well (another one of my loves) :)

Since January 2008, I've been doing a monthly podcast on DUBEARTH.com called the "GENRE SALAD" , where I introduce and play my favourite tracks of the day, year or life, usually brand-new dubplates and unreleased material straight from the budding producers coming from all corners of the Earth but also older tracks from bigger names that don't get played out enough. The tracks span many different music genres: from Dubstep and Metalstep, to Hiphop, dancehall and soca, to jungle, jungle techno, raggacore, speedcore and Schranz. I love giving names to new mashup genres! My latest is "soca dubstep" :)

To stream the "GENRE SALADS" and download them for free just click on the fruit below or point your browser to: this web address . If you want to send me your tracks for the upcoming Genre Salads, message me for the email or postal address.

All "Genre Salads" are now streamed 24/7 on DUBEARTH RADIO ONE digital radio! Here are the links to the various players:

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DUBEARTH RADIO ONE:

Winamp

Windows Media Player

Real Player

Quicktime

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And given that I also still do the good old drug-free sk@nking pretty much every weekend, 24 hours in a day are just not enough!!!!!! ...

P.S. If you're into non-electronic music, make sure you check out the rest of my family, Zero Fractal, the next Smiths, trust!