He was a founder of drum and bass label Full Cycle Recordings[2] and a member of Roni Size & Reprazent (1997 Mercury Prize winners) and Breakbeat Era.
An early interest in house and hardcore led to a musical partnership with friend Jody Wisternoff (who later formed Way Out West with Nick Warren).
Die DJ'd for a brief period with Circus Warp – a free party sound system.
Together with Size, he originated the seminal "Music Box" which was to become the title track of the debut Full Cycle compilation in 1996.
Emerging firstly as a core member of Reprazent and later in 1998 as one third of Breakbeat Era (a project spawned by the "Music Box" track of the same name), he soon found himself remixing for DJs including DJ Shadow, Towa Tei and DJ Cam.