OUR STORY

ABOUT DAPZ, BIO & CAREER HIGHLIGHTS.

Dapz has been heavily into music from a young age.
At 13, he took up Dj’ing Drum & Bass, and by 16, Dapz progressed onto writing his own music production in 1997.

In 2000 Dapz studied at Leicester College to complete a course in Electronic Music & Recording to learn more about the studio side of composing and Production.

Following on from this, In 2003 / 2004, Dapz completed a National Diploma in BTEC Level 3 Music Technology.

By 2005 Dapz began working with legendary MC $pyda, This opportunity opened up a range of new ideas and a chance to further develop his skills in a studio environment.
This step into the music industry also led Dapz to meet and collaborate with more established artists aswell as record vocals for the likes of, Daddy Freddy (Hard Core LP), Benny Page (The Burial), DJ Clipz Aka Redlight (Pass it Around), Future Bound & Matrix (Knight rider) and more.

In 2006 Dapz completed a 7302 City & Guilds in Teacher Training and went to work for a Youth Organisation company based in Nottingham teaching DJ’ing and music production to students from the age of 13 to 18 in and around the Midlands.

2007 was a successful year as new music projects took Dapz not just around the UK, but overseas to the various city’s in Germany to DJ/perform live PA’s with MC $pyda, Mc Bomma, and Slipz under the name, Strugglaz. 

In 2008 Dapz started to produce a style of music called “4×4 Bassline” with Slipz as a side project from Drum & Bass.
After taking the scene by storm, the duo (Slipz & Dapz) was getting huge support from mainstream DJ’s leading to DJ Cameo, Ras Kwame & DJ Target, Kissy Sell Out, playing their tracks on Radio 1 & 1Xtra shows.

It wasn’t long after that Passenger Records signed them both to a sub-label called Basslayerz. After flooding the underground with a fresh sound, Slipz & Dapz remixed “Tell Me You Love It” Featuring Blu Rum 13 from The US.

2009 was when the hit single (Balaclava) Ft Mc $pyda got released, Around this time Dapz was also recording vocals and taking part in various projects for Skepta, DJ Phantasy, Nicky Black Market, Mc Bassman, Trigga, Juice Man, Bongo Chilly,  and more.

Also in 2009 Dapz won Track of the year on Jo Nebulas Kemet Fm Drum & Bass Weekly show with his epic version of (Buck Rodgers). 

Dapz Drum & Bass tracks was getting  support by DJ’s from around the world.

Within this busy year, Dapz had a number of releases on various other Drum & Bass labels such as Subsonic Audio, Abstract VIP, Junction 11 and more.

In 2010 Dapz teamed up with runner up best female Drum & Bass DJ Misrepresent to form Silent Code.

within 2011/12 the duo had interviews and support by, K Mag, Mix Mag, BBC Introducing to follow up with many Digital and Vinyl releases on labels such as Viper Recordings (Engaged), Physmatics Music (Dutty Gal Ft Ragga Twins), Formation Records (Black Remix), Dirt Lies And Audio (6 Million Dolla Man) (Bakc2You Records (Flatliner Remix) and Easy Records (Box Your Chimp).

After creating a solid name in the scene they both were booked to DJ across Europe as Silent Code and individually, Their next step was to take on their own digital Label called (Sliced Note Recordings) this created many possibilities to release their own productions along with signing other artists.

By 2013 Dapz and Misrepresent moved to other bigger and better project’s and had three of their tracks used on EA Games Need For Speed game that sold over 9 million copy’s worldwide.

Also in 2013 Dapz started to push an Audio post production service offering Mix-down & Mastering for up and coming producers as well as established artists.

Due to his standard of work he was delivering. One client, in particular, was DJ Rap (Proper Talent Records) which lead to a remix of the mighty well know jungle classic tracks called “Spiritual Aura & Diggable Bass”.

In 2014, Dapz Teams up with Jo Nebula and produces a remix of (Twisted World)

This track has had nothing but love and supported by most A Listed DJ’s across the world.
They both plan to follow this up with a track entitled (Turn It Up) forthcoming on Back2You Records.

Also within 2014, Dapz started up a new project for the Mixing & Mastering services called Compound Audio. This has now lead him to not only engineer for artists but to build a huge Customer based platform that’s opened up the doors to more possibilities within the music industry.

later in 2014, Dapz went solo and taken part in many music projects and remix collaboration with major artists such as Snoop Dog (Flip it), Fatman Scoop ft Lady Leshurr (Bass Dunk). Along with Paul Rayner, Papa G (Hazardous Muzik), Charlotte Devaney (Calmer Records), Mampi Swift (Charge Recordings) & Jo Nebula (Back 2 You).

In 2015 Dapz did a number of Jungle remix’s for labels and (AnnGree – Give your Love To Me) sat at number 1 in the Juno/track it down Jungle charts for 3 weeks.
Another huge track that got a lot of support on BBC Radio 1 & BBC 1xtra was the mighty collab with Mampi Swift Ft MC Dynamite track titled “BIG TUNE”.

Throughout the year, plenty more came from Dapz as he had a line-up of forthcoming releases on labels such as Physmatics, Short Circuit, Back 2 you, Agitated Audio, Hazardous Muzik, Digital101, Rogue Beats, Junction 11, Charge Recordings, and more.

In 2016/18, Things really starting to take off at Compound Audio to the point where Mixing and Mastering became a full-time Monday to Friday job and the music production was starting to take a back seat.

Labels such as Juice Records, Skeleton Records, Brain Records, Proper Talent, Quayside records, and more, all gave Dapz the go-ahead to Master forthcoming tracks as well as Re-Mastering/restoring classic anthems from the early 90s Breakbeat, Drum & Bass, and Jungle era.
Also, Dapz was given a chance to not only mix but to master over 4 hours’ worth of audio content for a computer game called (Home front: The Revolution) by Dambuster Studios in Nottingham.

More demands were requested by the clients of compound audio for Vinyl Cutting, So Dapz teamed up with A cutting engineer’s Shane “Finyl Tweak” aka Heathman’s & Beau “Ten Eight Seven Mastering” to provide clients an around service.

Near the of 2018, Dapz went ahead and had a purposely built studio made.
Utilizing his knowledge he has learned over the years, he has carved a dream sound and vision perfectly to how he’s always wanted it. 

2019/2020 Dapz joined up with world-leading audio Mastering engineer “Streaky” & “Marco Galvan to learn more tips & tricks along with keeping up to date with today’s industry delivery standards by sitting an intense mastering course. While trying to find the time to study, Dapz teamed up with old Pal Brent from Aquasky to take on some major re-mastering and restoration work for a new label called Vinyl Fanatiks,