Old school Post Punk/Goth/Dark Wave demos. All on a Tascam 8 track. No DAW. Original artwork @master_of_none_tattoo
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Alt rock trio from Surrey, Uk. (Dressing monsters since 2015).

Found my passion for dance music around 1994 when my sister introduced me to artists like The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Josh Wink, CJ Bolland and Orbital.
From here i started my journey through the rave culture and was pretty much in to all styles of Hardcore, Drum N Bass, House and Trance.

Finally in the year 1998 i got my hands on my first set of turntables the Soundlab belt drives, which im pretty sure every Dj stared with back then. Mainly mixing Drum & Bass and Garage i went on and started my journey as a Dj in my local clubs/bars around the Surrey area.

The year 2000 started a new phase for me when my friends dragged me along to Peach at Camden Palace, i was always into Trance music but from this moment i knew this was now the direction i wanted to take but focusing more on the Harder styles of Trance and around 2005 we decided to start our own nights called Summit and Summit Above 160 which hosted some amazing Hard Trance/House and Hardcore parties at clubs such as Soundshaft, Hidden, Club Life, The Mass and The Light box.

As a Dj i was blessed with bookings for events such as Heat, Frantic, Hardhouse academy, WildChild, Judgement Sundays, Raindance and Epidemic  just to name a few.

For me now it’s all about breaking the Trance scene. Exciting times ahead so keep checking back for updated tracks and Dj mixes.

Thank you for stopping by :-)

Ben

Nearly Rots Ink consists of the London based artists Ben Skinner and Joe Lyric (aka the long time serving rave host  Lyrical Groover MC). In their past lives they were best known as the UK Hardcore pairing of ‘Up 2 Summit’.

Joe has been following dance music culture since 1988 and has been actively involved in the rave scene since the summer of 1992. Ben became active a number of years later originally under the DJ guise of Ben Outbreak. 

Bored of the regimentally structured and limited sounds of UK Hardcore Joe began to distance himself from the scene whilst all the while falling deeper in to his wide and varied love of electronic dance music. It was during this period of disillusion that Joe began taking to the decks more at home. 

After becoming frustrated by the politics from within the UK Hardcore scene Ben too began drifting further away from Hardcore and found himself appreciating music all the more at a lower bpm range. This is when Ben began to fall in love with House music.

So out of this new direction the Nearly Rots Ink production/DJ alias was born. If you like the sounds on this page so far then please follow us as we give you our take on House music in all its various forms. From DJ mixes to remixes and original NRI productions.

Write on you blotters... 

Ben & Joe - NRI

Trevor’s Head is a thick, greasy fondue of stoner rock, punk and grunge from the south east’s grottiest suburb, Redhill. Their sound is that of unhealthy British men who wish they’d grown up in the desert; dense fuzz guitar grooves growl atop beefy bass lines and frantic punk ‘n’ soul beats.

Their second full length album, titled ‘Tricolossus’, was self released in February 2016. Without booking agents or management, Trevor’s Head have consistently clocked up over a hundred gigs a year for the last three years and in doing so have become a formidable live band. With a strong presence around the South of England and a European tour under their belts, they are now setting their sights on the rest of the UK and beyond. 

Flirting with subtle post-rock undertones, Fire at Night are the cure to your existential fear that everything is meaningless and pointless. Fire at Night are Scott Swain (vocals, guitars), Tara Skinner (bass guitar), and Adam Pollard (drums, electronics). 

Fire at Night is following