Early Life
Williams, son of Jamaican immigrants, grew up in the Bristol suburb of St. Andrews. He cites reggae as one of his early influences. He was expelled from school at the age of 16 and started attending house parties run by Bristol soundsystem The Wild Bunch (a predecessor of Massive Attack). He learned the basics about music production at his local youth club, the Sefton Park basement project, which provided record players, a mixing desk, drum machines and samplers. He worked with his brother's comprehensive collection of Studio One records and later set up a home studio, buying a sampler.
His future musical partner, Krust, had been a member of the Fresh 4, whose "Wishing On A Star" reached the Top Ten of the UK Singles Chart in late 1989. Williams, Krust, Suv and DJ Die founded Full Cycle Records.
Aided by Chris Lewis, Roni Size founded the record label WTP ("Where's The Party At?") as part of Circus Warp, Dave Cridge who also DJ'd for Circus Warp and ran Replay Records Bristol, the two would also visit The Record Basement in reading and in 1993 Full Cycle and Dope Dragon were established in 1993 from that. RCA Records employee Bryan Gee was an early admirer. When in 1994 he set up V Recordings, the first releases were Krust's Deceivers EP as catalogue number V001 and Agility, the debut release of Roni Size and DJ Die, as V002.
Williams is an avid Bristol Rovers fan and is due to turn out for them in the Charity Match vs rivals Bristol City on May Bank Holiday Monday 2013.
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