1.Growing Up
My childhood was always deeply rooted in music. My parents had my brothers and me in piano lessons from a young age, and my father was a solo entertainer under the name Impact One. My older brother noticed my interest during these lessons and suggested we pool our resources, buy some equipment and learn how to DJ. This was also the year I discovered electronic music, and became hooked on its energy.
2.Inspirations
Justice were my first encounter with electronic music, and they are still one of my favourite acts. I followed their rise to fame as I began my own career in music and they became one of my biggest inspirations. Ajax was another huge figure for me coming up in the industry; we first met at one of his sets that I was supporting at, I loved his style and followed him ever since. I actually named my cat Jaxi in memory of him! Claude VonStroke is another of my big inspirations for what he’s done with his label Dirtybird.
3.Your Crew
I started the Allfriends entertainment company years ago wanting to surround myself with others passionate about music and bring a positive, community-like vibe back to our nightlife. I’m happy to say that our group today has an amazing collection of characters, each with their own unique talents, and these are the people I get to spend my daily with. I feel lucky to have my best mates as my colleagues, as we all know how to have a good time but also how to put our heads together and work hard to make things happen.
4.The Music You Make And Play
I’m a fairly versatile musician; as a DJ I play a pretty wide range of genres from drum and bass to hip hop, but my production style so far has been around bass house and garage. I don’t believe in pigeonholing yourself to one genre if you enjoy others as well; each style has its own unique vibe. As our upcoming boat party Yeah Buoy! has an ‘all things bass’ theme, I’ll be moving up through bass house, trap and DnB.
5.Music, Right Here, Right Now
The music scene right now is the most competitive it’s ever been, which I think is a good and bad thing. It’s so accessible now that anyone can come out and express themselves, meaning we have all these amazing musicians that might not have been unleashed otherwise. But this also makes it quite crowded and especially with Sydney’s lockout laws closing many of our venues, opportunities for gigs are becoming slimmer. A bit of competition doesn’t worry me too much though, it keeps us all working at our best!
Yeah Buoy! Exclusive Sydney Boat Party, withArena, Bass RQ, Buried King, Dekkadence and more, departs Wharf 9, King Street Wharf on Friday December 23.
