Bearded Beats' passion for hip hop started in 1988 from a secret tape maker in a posh country town in Kent

Brett first became interested in electronic music back in the early 90s, but soon found his love of all types of House music after his brother took him to the Zap club in Brighton in 1993. He bought his first decks in the same year and started collecting vinyl alongside becoming a regular at the Zap club, eventually DJing there. Throughout the 90s and 00s, Brett DJed at most venues in Brighton, Mansion House in Worthing (the old Sterns), and travelled further afield to play a few times in London and Ibiza. Family life then took priority, so he restricted his DJing to the comfort of his own home. With more free time to pursue his passion, he’s now back to playing out across various Brighton venues, including Kinki Malinki for Pride, the Zap Reunion, and a residency at Ohso Social. There’s nothing he loves more than getting a crowd dancing with his mix of club classics and the latest […]

Shnucklz is a music lover who grew up listening to reggae (mum), his first memories are of the jungle scene, being from London, he was heavily influenced by the people he grew up with and started to like the music that ‘the older lot’ were listening to in the youth clubs. His favourite stations at the time were ‘Kool FM’ and ‘Freak FM’ and he has a massive soft spot for ‘old skool jungle’ that will never leave. For him, it was the music that started everything off. He became engrossed in the garage music at the time and started collecting records, even before he got decks! Shnucklz visited many well-known record shops with his mum, including places such as ‘Uptown Records, ‘Blackmarket Records’ and a no longer existing ‘Release the Groove’. Schnucklz is derived from the word knuckles, but simply with a ‘Shh’ in front of it and a creative change in the spelling.