drum and bass · breakbeat · dubstep

Controlled Weirdness

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South London Bass ambassador Neil Keating aka DJ Controlled Weirdness has been rocking the decks and rinsing the rough beats for a few years now. As a young kid the Streetsounds Electro series and early eighties pirate radio stations like LWR started his obsession with nasty electronic music, breakbeats and hard edged funk. Saturday afternoons were spent in Groove records in Soho buying obscure Electro Imports that now go for high sums on Ebay and attending Spats in Oxford street, a Saturday afternoon club where Tim Westwood would play all the new electro/hip hop coming out of the States. This was the start of a lifelong vinyl obsession that still continues to this day. January 1984 and after hearing about Neil's eclectic record collection he was asked to DJ at a new club called "The House of Dolls" in Farringdon. There he became resident DJ and spun a mixture of electro, industrial, punk and new wave and even some Northern Soul, the start of the DJ bug. At the same time he was also going out to clubs like Delirium, The Mud Clud and Pyramid at Heaven (allegedly the first place to play house music in England in 1985) and also the very first warehouse parties hosted by people like Family Function(Norman Jays sound System) and Soul II Soul. These parties were held in the old abandoned warehouses down by the Thames from London Bridge up to Blackfriars bridge. Saturday night routine was to meet in the Spice of Life pub in Soho where you got the location of the party and then travel down to the then run down areas near the river where you paid £5 to get in and could dance all night to Funk and Rare Groove.

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