User:DB658/Dj DB

Arriving in New York in 1989 from London, where he was resident DJ at the London version of The Limelight club, he first achieved notoriety by throwing outlaw club events known as DEEP. In 1990 he was hired by Cory Robins of Profile Records to work with VP Gary Pini as A&R scout & went on to compile the Best of Techno series & later versions on the Best of House albums.

It's been argued that no one has done more for Drum & Bass in America than DB, first with in 1992 his hardcore Breakbeat club NASA at The Shelter, (featured in the Larry Clark film Kids then with Gary Pini by launching Sm:)e communications for Profile Records and releasing the first Jungle singles & compilations in the U.S, as well as signing DJ Dara, thus kick starting his artist career. He & Dara then opened Breakbeat Science, dedicated to Drum & Bass, It quickly become not only the most respected record store & label, but also the very epicenter of the jungle community in the U.S. In 1993 he & Pini were also responsible for getting Robot Wars started by convincing Profile records to back the project, originally dreamed up by Ex ILM model maker Mark Thorp & staging the first live events in San Francisco.

1997 DB & Andrew Goldstone were hired by Warner Bros. Records to set up an electronic imprint, F-111 records. Two years into their contract, Ministry Of Sound poached the duo to head up A&R duties for the launch on an America version of the label.

In 2007 he released an artist album project with partner Stakka under the name Ror-Shak, focusing on pushing the limits on the more musical side of the D&B genre, which as a dj, is what DB had become best known for. The pair sold two of the songs to the CSI franchise before licensing the album to KOCH Records in the U.S & various EU labels. Between 1994 and 2008 DB has released 13 mixed CDs.

He also is a partner in both the cutting edge mens lifestyle shop BBlessing in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, & the record label Deaf Dumb & Blind Recordings for which he did the A&R, releasing Nuclear Free City & Fujiya & Miyagi albums.

Breakbeat Science in 2006 was responsible for the first compilation in the U.S. of the new sub genre of D&B, Dubstep.

DB had been collecting stickers since the 80's via punk rock & skate boarding, he & a partner (Monica LoCasio) created a history book, "Stickers- from Punk Rock to Contemporary Art" (for Rizzoli via their younger imprint Universe Publishing Universe Publishing of stickers, artists who've used the medium & the effect on our pop culture, due out September 2010. The pair are currently working towards touring the project as an art gallery exhibition for 2011.

He can be heard on the publicly funded online radio ArtonAir.org on his weekly show called BLURRINGradio. The show is a "mix-tape" of music, past & present that has, or is inspiring to him. The shows concept of a non genre, non decade specific show, was sparked by the fond memory of DB growing up listing to the late John Peel in London.