Soup was the chief music provider for local break dancers. It was during his third year at High school he began fiddling with dj equipment. Soup learnt about the dazzling new music form hip-hop and began developing production skills on crude sampling equipment in luxurious 8bit, his computer had an amazing 2 megabytes of memory. He began digging for samples and was mostly enthralled by Rhythm and Blues, Soul, early electronic music and spoken word records. Soup has remixed Aria nominated Watussi as well as Cookin On 3 Burners.

Soup has DJed in many clubs around Australia including a long residency at Tonic and Blue hotel and the legendary Sounds of Seduction with Jay Katz from the Mu Meson Archives. His sets are always eclectic but the common thread is soul. His first love is funk and soul but don’t be surprised to hear lots of different styles of music mixed and blended into his sets.

Founding the Fonke Knomaads, Soup became producer, DJ and part time MC for the left field Sydney Hip-hop pioneers. They released a 5 track EP called “The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of…” on the now defunct label PoBoy records. Soup moved on to sign with influential Australian record label Creative Vibes. He soon released the groundbreaking Trip-Hop Album “Souperloops”.

Soup coined the term sampology and his tracks began popping up on several international compilations as well as having an album of the week on JJJ. This was the first local hip hop release to be given such an honour. The album was influential to local bands such as The Resin Dogs and Fretless.

Soup recently signed to the reformed Creative Vibes and released the EP UberSoup.

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