Born 18 June 1964 on the Isle of Wight and raised in Essex. His relationship with dance music began in the late 1970s, when he began collecting soul and funk records.
In 1986, after a chance recommendation by a DJ named Steve Goddard, he began working at a record store, Smithers & Leigh, situated at the Marble Arch end of Oxford Street in London.
When the store closed down just over a year later, he moved to undefined Distribution as their dance music specialist, working with undefined and tasked with setting up the undefined Dance Division.
In 1988 he started undefined, which was owned by undefined. This was the label on which he released his early productions.