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DJ Oxide (Alex Rivers, born 1982 in Isleworth, London) is an English DJ, and one half of the DJ and MC Garage duo from London 'Oxide & Neutrino'

Musical Career
DJ Oxide's early career began on a pirate radio station in Brixton in 1998, this is where he would go on to meet his future musical partner MC Neutrino and form the duo Oxide & Neutrino, and members of So Solid Crew. During this time on pirate radio he started playing at nightclubs, and also naturally progressed into music production, with a view to making music for his DJ sets.

DJ Oxide's first studio production was made in June 1999 "Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty)" which started life as a Dubplate for his DJ sets before being vocalled by MC Neutrino. The popularity of the track in the underground UK Garage scene, led to it being signed by East West Records, and upon its release entered at the top of the UK Singles Chart in April 2000. It is known for sampling the theme music to the BBC medical drama series Casualty, and also contains samples of dialogue from the 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The sample based production style became a theme throughout DJ Oxide's early music producing career and due to the success of this a number of spurious (spoof) tracks appeared allegedly made by DJ Oxide including 'The Bill' and 'X-Files' neither of these tracks are legitimate and indeed were not made by DJ Oxide. He did however produce various limited edition vinyl tracks which were released towards the end of 1999 and into 2000, including Superman https://www.discogs.com/DJ-Oxide-Big-Kid-Superman/release/240430 and The Terminator which again sampled famous films. Later in 2000 DJ Oxide's association with So Solid Crew was to realise its potential when he produced what was to become Oxide & Neutrino's second single released from the Execute Album, No Good 4 Me, featuring MC Neutrino, Lisa Maffia, MC Romeo, and MC Megaman which reached number 6 in the UK Charts. He also remixed So Solid Crew's Oh No Sentimental Things https://www.discogs.com/So-Solid-Crew-Oh-No-Sentimental-Things-DJ-Oxide-Remix/release/299037 DJ Oxide went on to produce the studio album's Execute released in 2001 and 2 Stepz Ahead released in September 2002 His track "Shoot to Kill" appears, played from car stereos, in the film Ali G Indahouse. It is also featured on the original soundtrack CD. During the years that followed DJ Oxide concentrated on the live aspect of his work and as Oxide & Neutrino appeared at numerous clubs and festivals to perform PA's of the now famous Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty) or as a DJ/MC 1 hour performance of UK Garage Music. This did not mean that DJ Oxide was not producing new music, far from it in fact he had purchased his own studio and produced a number of remixes and tracks for other artists. Remix of Minute Man by Missy Elliott on East West Records in 2002 https://www.discogs.com/Missy-Elliott-One-Minute-Man-Oxide-Remix/release/1570229 Remix ODB Got Your Money, East West Records Why Me Remix Feat: Asher D & Swiss

produced tracks on Lisa Maffia's debut album, First Lady, and the track "Industry Lady" on Face's mixtape Sign 2 the Block.

The duo made a return to the music scene in 2007, first with new single "What R U" released on 14 May, and then with their fourth album 2nd Chance following on 11 June. An interview with Darker Romello of Mayhem TV entitled "The Return of Oxide & Neutrino" appeared on Grimedaily, announcing new material set to be released in the summer of 2011.

Oxide & Neutrino signed a new record deal in January 2021 with record label New State Music. https://www.newstate.co.uk/

Their latest track Where Do We Go featuring Leo the Lion can be found on Spotify & iTunes, there is also a live version of the track on youtube entitled: Oxide&Neutrino & Leo The Lion - Where Do We Go (Live Performance). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ST-_muzxK8