![]() This is how I knew it’s not all about London.įor me Manchester… it’s like the difference between New York and Detroit, or Amsterdam and Rotterdam. I was learning about house music, techno, the origin, where does it come from and of course Manchester and The Hacienda start to come up. In ’97 the transformation started for me - ’97 I did all my homework. “From the beginning! Because I did my homework very very well. As much as he worked hard to understand the roots of the new scene he had suddenly become a part of, at what point did he realise the importance of Manchester in all of it? In double-quick time he became one of the main men at DC10 and Circoloco (back in the glory days of the early 2000s), and he’s never looked back since. ![]() He’d be playing old US-house B-sides when everyone else was playing minimal - he’d be taking it up when others would be taking it down. Quite quickly he’d developed a record collection and a DJing style that was different to his contemporaries. Rather like a born-again christian who has just been shown ‘the way’, when Dice moved away from hip hop and fell into house and techno, he took it to excess. It’s like the difference between New York and Detroit, or Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Sure, he was in with a lot of the right people - it can’t have hurt to have hanged with the biggest hip hop stars of the 90s and then latterly with Martin Buttrich and Timo Maas - but such was his unbelievable thirst for musical knowledge, he found a way to outshine the lot of them. He lives and breathes his music, other people’s music, the scene, the partying, everything.ĭice began his musical journey as a brash hip hop kid who ruffled a lot of feathers in his youth, but it wasn’t his front that got him where he is now - it was his encyclopedia. Loco Dice is one of the scene’s biggest characters, and not ‘character’ in the sense that people use to describe a departed celebrity who spent their whole life offending people, but ‘character’ in the true sense of someone who is a formidable force of personality.
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