Stan The Man
Stan The Man shows
As far as I can remember I have always love music, disco music was my first love from the tramps.. disco inferno Thelma Houston.. dont leave me this way.donna summer .. jackson 5.. when disco came to a end i had to find a new fix which was jazz funk in the early 80s great times great brit funk band fell in love with the soul boogie music leroy burgess for example.. started to spend so much money on vinyl records, imported American soul music was taking over my life started to live in nite clubs in London Thursday Friday and Saturday night. they were the glory days for me.
Then got my first break djing as Stanford John . I was introduced to a really funky DJ Cleveland Anderson who was DJing in the top nite club in London and made me his warm up DJ at the 100 club oxford street Thursday nights underground soul music.. spats nite club oxford street doing the same thing Cleveland was and still is a great mentor, those day was so cool.and for one reason or another we started playing up north playing on the Sunday all-dayer meeting new people and making new friends.. after all that me a five friends started to build a sound system together and we call the sound earthshaker Bedford first soul sound.
We did so many house parties that was unbelievable. the support we use to get back in the day was fantastic just would like to say big thank to all and everyone that came and support the earthshaker party’s so much more I can tell you about the glory days of soul but I would have to write a book, but now you can find me on the air wave in2beats fm soul movement show every Sunday 12 till 2pm with yours truly stan da man..
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MassC aka maxthebeatmaker a Bedford based DJ bringing you a weekly show consisting of a 2 hour eclectic mix of classic and new hip hop, Rock, funk, soul, House and loads more each and every Saturday 4-6 pm.
I started out listening to electronic music back in Leeds in the early 80s, mainly listening to electro music on battered old copies of StreetSounds cassettes whilst trying desperately to spin on my head! I moved on from there to all things Old Skool, missed DnB as I went traveling in Spain during the formative years and it didn't happen over there, dabbled with a bit of Garage, and then House became my thing! When I returned to the UK in the late 90s, I landed in the beautiful town of Bedford and have been here ever since. My main musical passion is all things House but over the last couple of years have been revisiting DnB and Jungle due to the massive influence of so many local DnB heroes flying the flag in B-Town and I now love to play that too! Cheers, Dj Ohms (Matt Holmes) x
Open Being has mixed various styles of rave on several radio stations including In2beats, Dose, Control Live, MKFM, UK’s Finest & Lab Radio. At Lab Radio, two years running he received the award for the best weekend show (2008/9). In 2011 he released a mix with Jot Maxi MC for the dubstep label Dubthugz. Together with Jot, he performed grime shows on radio and later in 2017 they released the Stronghold minimix. As well as the airwaves Open Being has spun tunes at various clubs, raves, and local festivals, including back 2 back mixes with Justin Hurst. More recently he has played deep house & trance at Wild Cow ecstatic dance events in Milton Keynes and live-streamed shows for the Conscious Buddy Community. In 2021 he put together the ‘Elements Series’ to touch on some of the rave styles he has played over the years. In 2022 the ‘archive series’ - 12 mix recordings from 2005 – 2014.
