Bio

DJ Problem Child was born in the UK where his love for music started with Michael Jackson but grew up in Trinidad in the 1980s. By then he mainly listened to Dancehall and especially Hip Hop. Such as NWA, Public Enemy & Ice T etc. He moved back to England in 1991 when he was 11 and was handed a tape, Top Buzz @ Eclipse 'The Highlander' - the event of which The Eclipse Nightclub in Coventry had held in Scotland. This blew him away because this was not only a Coventry promotion who had staged this event, but he also lived just very near the club itself, and he loved the sound Top Buzz were playing because it was a mixture of Hip Hop breaks with Reggae vocals and loved the energy of the music.
After this and listening to Ratty @ 'Dance Nation' tape he was hooked, listening to dj's like Jumping Jack Frost, Fabio, Grooverider, Mickey Finn, Randall but his main influences and who are still his favourtie dj's to this day were Doc Scott, Ratty & LTJ Bukem. During the period when he was at school in the 1990s, he was always spending his pocket money on tapes at Bangin Tunes, Revive & Spinadisc, and then he started to collect records and flyers (he had every flyer you could think of until someone decided to bin them all once when moving house, argh!) but he was never djing. He just loved listening to the tapes and in 1994 he started buying records.
When Problem Child was 16, he went to his first rave; Helter Skelter 'Imagination' on New Years Eve 1996 at The Sanctuary in Milton Keynes. It was everything he could dream of with loads of his favorite dj's & mc's playing and he was raving non stop from 1997 onwards he was raving non stop, attending parties such as Dreamscape, Slammin Vinyl, Helter Skelter, Hysteria, One Nation, Flashback to name a few. By 2000 he decided to buy a pair of decks because by this point he had quite a large record collection, and in 2002 he had his first gig at one of Coventry's well known local events; No Wet Weed. He also went onto play at Safe + Sound which was a weekly event at Platform 5 doing Drum & Bass and Hardcore where he met Noizee B, who had also just started playing out and was only 15 years old and still in school, they both had similar tastes and to this day are still great friends.
Over the years Problem Child has had bookings around the midlands playing Old Skool and Drum & Bass, and has also worked on & off with Gamma Funkula. He's especially known for playing his Old Skool sets where he plays rather dark tunes from producers such as Bizzy B, FBD Project, Nasty Habits, Tango, rufige Cru and so on.
He is now promoting his event 'Dubplate Wars' which launches on Friday 30th March @ The Loft in Coventry, where he has Old Skool legend BIZZY B headlining. The event consists of 2 rooms of Old Skool, Jungle and Drum & Bass with a selection of DJ's from around the Midlands, more information can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/events/384123444946697/
Big shouts from Problem Child to:
Glenn Aston, Gershwin, Noizee B, Toz @ Distortion Cru, Adi @ Gamma Funkula, Chris & Dundee @ Rubber Duck PA, D Tain, Rob May, No Wet Weed, Platform 5 crew, Vader, Assasin, Spangle8, Justin, Aimee, all the artists and team helping with Dubplate Wars, and those who have downloaded his sets and supported him.

coventry United Kingdom

Member since: 20 Feb 2012