My first excursions into music got me listening to rock: Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and others that were around in the 70s. That is, until I heard James Brown’s ‘Sex Machine’ at my mate’s mobile disco one Saturday night. That ended up being a life changing moment.

Since then, I’ve loved and collected jazz, funk and soul music, and have been buying tunes for many years.  I can well remember queuing up outside my local decent record shop in Brighton, waiting for the latest tunes to come in so I could buy them after working all hours at many different jobs to fund my ‘addiction’.

Since then, I've been living and working in Asia for 15 years and have played in a number of bars and clubs in Singapore and Malaysia with it still being done for the love of music and seeing a smile on people’s faces when you get it right.

I still love the classic tunes and I’ve never forgotten my roots (with a little help from Dave and the rest of the guys on JFSR), but I am also into Nu Disco and re-edits, Nu Jazz, Latin, Broken Beat, Electronica, Soulful House and even the odd cheeky bits of Drum and Bass. ;-)

The list of DJs who have inspired me over the years is long and distinguished and range from Froggy, Chris Hill and Robbie Vincent, to Gilles Peterson, Patrick Forge, Russ Dewbury and ‘Nippon’ Nik Weston and more recently DJ Butcher, 80‘s child, Yam Who? and Doctor Packer – and, of course, the guys and girls who play on JFSR. As they say, quality never goes out of style.

So here I am courtesy of Dave and the JFSR team ready to dig into my crates to see what I can bring to you. I just hope you enjoy the shows as much as I enjoy putting them together. Any feedback you have is always welcome!.

Big love and thanks to you all.

E x