Brett angel

I was 17 when I bought my first set of decks in 1991 after I started going to illegal rave party that

we had most weeks in Oxfordshire summer of 1991. Spiral tribe, Circus Warp,

Bedlam and Street level were putting on these party everywhere and I was totally

hooked. 1992 I started playing rave music out at house party's and raves. 

1993 - 1994 the big split happened and DnB came on the scene, the criminal justice

bill was passed and that forced us out of the fields and warehouses. I started playing

House and Trance music in the clubs, I'd play Friday nights at the Palace night club

in Witney, Saturday nights the Coven in Oxford then often drive to London to play in clubs there.

1995 - 2000  in my early 20's I was on the London club circuit playing for Sunnyside Up at the

Chunnel Club then later at SW1 playing alongside Tony De Vit and John 00

Flemming. I also played for other promotions such as Mind over Matter, Sunflowers

and we also put on our own nights in and around London.

In 2000 in my late 20s and early 30s I went over to Thailand where I played at the fullmoon party on Hat Rin

beach Ko Pha Ngan, plus islands Ko Tao and Ko Samui.

2002 I visited Cambodia and noticed they had no western djs playing in the clubs. I

moved there and started playing the latest music from the UK and I really made a

massive impact. Cambodian djs at the time didn'tt have the exposure of outside

music other then what was going on in Cambodia, I stayed ahead of the game with

all my vinyl and cds. I was playing the tunes all the western backpackers wanted but

the Cambodia djs couldn't get. My mum would go to HMV and buy the latest cds

from Ministry of sound and send them over to me so I was up with the top tunes. 

2003 is when I did my first radio djing, I was invited on to the only English speaking

radio station in Cambodia to do a show. All the younger Cambodians were studying

English and they wanted to hear a native English announcer. That's when I really

blew up over there, before long I was doing regular radio shows, voice overs for

other radio stations and also I did a few Cambodian TV commercials. I would do a

daily radio show Monday - Friday then play 1 club on a Friday night and 2 clubs on a

Saturday night, life was absolutely awesome I was living my dream!

I got married in Cambodia in 2006 and my wife became pregnant in 2008 so we

decided to leave Cambodia on a high and returned to the UK. We lived just over 2

years in the UK, I did volunteer radio shows on Radio Horton in Banbury hospital

which was good fun helping out in the community. We then decided to move over to

New Zealand in 2011 and I'm still living here now. I've done more work on the radio in NZ working for 2 different radio stations. Now I'm fully committed to playing house

and trance music out at our monthly club night called Taurangas House of Rave

party at VooDoo Lounge.