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I have promoted various successful club nights in London and Brighton for the last 8 years. For the past 6 years or so I've also been a dj.

Things began when I began playing dub and breaks at the first breakbeat and psy-trance night in the UK, 180degrees which I also promoted. As resident I played alongside System 7, Juno Reactor and Eat Static, as well as regularly adding a different angle in the second rooms at many nights in London and Brighton.

After this I went onto promote u-need music which concentrated more on electro, breaks and techno, playing alongside Coburn, New Zealand’s Pitch Black, Salmonella Dub, Fat Freddys Drop and Evil Nine.

This led onto me becoming resident at Brighton’s biggest and best breaks night- Slackers Convention. Here I gave the breaks crowd a mixture of electro, breaks, and techno starting off only in the bar in the early days to playing the last set in the main room of the 600 capacity Concorde club in Brighton. At these nights I played with General Midi, Smithmonger, Matt Cantor from the Freestylers, Si Begg and Toob to name but a few. With them I've also played at the massive Breaking Ground event at SE1 alongside many of the breakbeat scenes big players.

As well as being residents at the above nights I have also played at various other electro and breakbeat events in England and across the globe including Prague, Bulgaria, Wales, Reading, Cornwall, Spain (both years of the Rocket Festival), New Zealand (4 date tour including Splore Festival) and Australia. At these events I have joined DMX Crew, Product 01, The Dexorcist, Tim Exile, Minuit, Kansas City Prophets, Stormfield, Jake One, Tim Wright and Transparent Sound.

Since moving back to London in 2006 after 9 years in Brighton I have been made a resident of Baselogic, so will be performing at 2007’s massive electro and techno event- Bloc Weekend, and I am also now a regular dj at Grunk at Herbal in Shoreditch. I'm also going to be starting a new night incorporating all of my styles in London very soon.

My style varies a lot these days and my sets always contain elements of electro, minimal house, techno, booty bass, dub step and breaks but all with a heavy bass influence. This style has come about due to the wealth of music that I'm now open to due to my music reviews that I do for various websites, such as www.eq-mag.co.uk, www.hyponik.com, www.myspace.com/hyponik, www.myspace.com/blocweekend, www.littledetroit.net and of course my own www.myspace.com/riksymmetrik.

I also do event management and event promotion so here's some of the things that I'm involved with:

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