Alex C
Alex C shows
At the young at of 13 I got into Rave just before it turned into Jungle / Happy Hardcore. I got my first set of decks in 1994 and started to learn to mix & for the next few years spent my Saturday’s at Black Market Records in Soho London buying Jungle vinyl & meeting some of the big jungle DJ’s that made the scene from there. I moved to Eastbourne from Luton in 1997 and got the chance to DJ in some of the clubs playing Jungle / Happy hardcore sets in 1999.
I moved back to Bedford and took a interest in the Trance / Underground Garage scene. I played in bars & pubs nothing in the way of big events due to my main job in the window industry taking a lot of my time. By 2005 I was playing a mix of UK Garage, Speed Garage, Trance & R&B. In 2006 the underground Bassline scene up north started and I took a big Interest in those fast Bassline vibes again. I was still only DJ’ing at little bars & pubs when a chance came up in 2009.
I started getting into music Production. I’ve made a few tunes now, pretty much all remixes & bootlegs, and spend a lot of time putting Acapellas over Instrumentals. I have never released any of my creations, what I make I use for my sets only! Upto date now in 2020, I’m now DJ on In2beats radio and I’m a DJ at Vogue Nightclub in Bedford on the 3rd Floor every Saturday Playing House Music, Bassline & Club Anthems.
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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.
