BLEN STARTED DJ’ING ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO BUT HAS ONLY BEEN DOING IT SERIOUSLY FOR THE LAST SIX. HIS PREFERRED STYLE OF MUSIC IS ‘HIP HOP’ BUT AS HE SAYS; “IT’S SO HARD TO SAY, AS I HAVE AN APPRECIATION FOR ALL KINDS OF MUSIC… I JUST LOVE MUSIC!!!” HE ALSO PLAYS OTHER TYPES OF MUSIC AS WELL, INCLUDING… BREAKBEAT, DRUM&BASS, FUNKY HOUSE, UK GARAGE, REGGAE/DANCEHALL AND EVEN A BIT OF ROCK AND METAL!!!

SOME OF HIS MUSICAL INFLUENCES AND INSPIRATIONS INCLUDE; ‘KRS 1’, ‘NAS’, ‘EASY E’, ‘SIZZLA’, TOUNGE-‘TWISTER’ (HIS OLD STUFF), ‘Q BERT’, ‘MARVELOUS KAYNE’, ‘NICKY BLACKMARKET’ AND ‘TONY VEGAS’.

HE HAS PLAYED AT VARIOUS VENUES IN AND AROUND CAMBRIDGE; HERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES… BLEN HAD A RESIDENT ‘DRUM&BASS’ SLOT AT THE INFAMOUS ‘FULBOURN WAREHOUSE PARTIES’ (BEFORE CLOSING DOWN). HE HAS PERFORMED ALONGSIDE FELLOW ‘RAPTUREFM’ RESIDENT DJ ‘NOSHAD D’ UNDER THE ‘DELIBERATE DEFIANCE’ NAME, AS WELL AS A GIG FOR ‘RAPTUREFM’ AT ‘THE ROYAL STANDARD’. ASHLEY HAS ALSO PLAYED A NUMBER OF TIMES AT THE OUTDOOR ‘GRANCHESTER’ PARTIES BUT HE SAYS; “IT’S NOT MUCH FUN CARRYING BOXES OF RECORDS ACROSS FIELDS IN THE PITCH BLACK”. WE CAN IMAGINE LOL!!!

HE REGULARLY PLAYS OUT ON A MONDAY NIGHT AT THE ‘DEVONSHIRE ARMS’ (THE DEV) ON MILL RD, CAMBRIDGE. THIS IS THE ‘REGGAE’ NIGHT RUN BY ‘BUSHRARI’ (HIS DAD), PLAYING ‘ROOTS REGGAE’, ‘DUB’ AND A TOUCH OF ‘RAGGA JUNGLE’. THE NIGHT HAS BEEN RUNNING FOR OVER FIVE YEARS NOW AND IS THE LONGEST RUNNING 'REGGAE' NIGHT IN CAMBRIDGE.