Pete Nice
MC Flux was one of the pioneering MCs in the growth of the drum & bass scene, working with many of the leading lights in the UK scene.
Now he's released a book, detailing -- in a street-level manner -- the ins and outs of his lively life, not just in music but with other aspects he's been involved with growing up and surviving in London in the past 30 years.
In the book, he details his early life as a football fan, running with a reggae sound system, being repeatedly stopped and searched by the police, and his early clubbing days. He soon gets caught up in football violence and skirmishing with racists from the National Front, going to acid house raves at Clink Street and getting loved-up at Sunrise in the late 1980s.
As well as being involved in the early days of the UK rave scene, in the early '90s he started being an MC by grabbing the mic one night when Jumping Jack Frost was DJing. He went on to tour with abstract techno don Colin Dale, with the Moving Shadow drum & bass crew, and all manner of d&b names DJs such as Frost, Fabio & Grooverider and so on.
"He's a great MC, one of the most pioneering to grace the mic," says Groove in the book.
During his MCing heyday in the '90s, Flux also set up the Inta Natty clothing brand, but as the '90s drew to a close he got addicted to heroin and started to lead a double life. He was drawn into football violence with the Crystal Palace firm and ended up spending time in prison.
Now a reformed character acting as a social worker to troubled local youth, Flux has detailed his lively life in a new book -- Dirty.
He's also got various headz from the drum & bass scene to talk about their memories of him, characters who weren't aware of the double life he had at the time.
Co-authored with his old pal Pete Nice the book is a right rollicking read.
Flux pulls no punches in telling it like it was. It's the sort of book that should be picked up for a film, or a gritty BBC drama.
SOURCE: DJ MAG #543
Now he's released a book, detailing -- in a street-level manner -- the ins and outs of his lively life, not just in music but with other aspects he's been involved with growing up and surviving in London in the past 30 years.
In the book, he details his early life as a football fan, running with a reggae sound system, being repeatedly stopped and searched by the police, and his early clubbing days. He soon gets caught up in football violence and skirmishing with racists from the National Front, going to acid house raves at Clink Street and getting loved-up at Sunrise in the late 1980s.
As well as being involved in the early days of the UK rave scene, in the early '90s he started being an MC by grabbing the mic one night when Jumping Jack Frost was DJing. He went on to tour with abstract techno don Colin Dale, with the Moving Shadow drum & bass crew, and all manner of d&b names DJs such as Frost, Fabio & Grooverider and so on.
"He's a great MC, one of the most pioneering to grace the mic," says Groove in the book.
During his MCing heyday in the '90s, Flux also set up the Inta Natty clothing brand, but as the '90s drew to a close he got addicted to heroin and started to lead a double life. He was drawn into football violence with the Crystal Palace firm and ended up spending time in prison.
Now a reformed character acting as a social worker to troubled local youth, Flux has detailed his lively life in a new book -- Dirty.
He's also got various headz from the drum & bass scene to talk about their memories of him, characters who weren't aware of the double life he had at the time.
Co-authored with his old pal Pete Nice the book is a right rollicking read.
Flux pulls no punches in telling it like it was. It's the sort of book that should be picked up for a film, or a gritty BBC drama.
SOURCE: DJ MAG #543
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Dirty By MC Flux
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Biography Music, Football, Alcohol & Drug Abuse
MC Flux, AKA Carl Rodney Thomas, is a top drum and bass MC, a UK pioneer in this type of dance music. Inspired in his teens by reggae, back in the 80s he became Youth Champion of the Reggae Young Sounds competition. Talent spotted for top clubs, he was soon the MC of choice for raves such as Innovation, Desire, Dreamscape, World Dance, Innocence and Helter Skelter. He even formed his own clothing company. But Flux has spent plenty of time on the dark side and dicing with the law – he has often been in the front line during violent clashes at soccer matches, and his involvement with drugs led to prison sentences for drug possession and violent disorder. This is his raw, colourful story, written with the help of his close friend Peter Spence, better known in the dance world as Pete Nice. Vivid and explicit, this is not a story for the faint-hearted. mereobooks.com theguardian bookshop
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