BUILT FROM EXPERIENCE, DOUBT, AND THE DECISION TO COME BACK.

I've been doing this for over twenty years. Piano lessons as a kid, turntables after that, then production - because playing other people's records wasn't enough. I wanted to make my own.

For a while, things were moving. Releases on labels I'd dreamed about. Support from DJs I'd grown up listening to. Gigs that took me around the world. The moment that changed everything was Crunk - a rework of Mary J. Blige's "Family Affair," released on Azuli. That track pulled me out of an EDM phase that never felt right and brought me back to the music I actually wanted to make. After that, the support came from everywhere - Carl Cox, Adam Beyer, Tiësto, David Guetta, Danny Howard and Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1. Releases landed on Toolroom, Saved, Truesoul. Shows went from local clubs to Tomorrowland, Eden in Ibiza, Studio 338 in London.

Then Covid hit. At first I figured nothing would change - the world opens back up, business as usual. I was wrong. I was making club music and there were no clubs. I started questioning everything. Doubting myself. And when things finally opened up again, the scene had moved on. People who'd pushed hard on social media during lockdown were the new names. I'd been sitting still.

Then I became a father. More doubt, more thinking. I gave myself time to figure out what I actually wanted to do. But even when I wasn't putting any pressure on myself to work, I kept ending up in the studio anyway. That was the answer, really - I just didn't want to accept it yet.

When I finally decided to come back properly, a hernia took me out of the chair for months. More time to think. Same conclusion every time: I just want to make music.

But making music doesn't pay the bills on its own. Touring is brutal and I'm not the type to sell myself. What I did notice is that after twenty years in this scene, I'd learned things that newer producers were desperate for - honest feedback, proper mixdowns, someone who actually understands what labels want. I started doing production work, and I genuinely enjoyed it. So I turned all of it into one thing. UNDRSIEGE was born.