JMX

Belfast based JMX fascination with dance music started at a young age when he acquired his first set of turntables and spent hours upon hours getting to grips with the art of beat mixing. He was first influenced by heavyweights like Carl Cox and Joey Beltram who were playing guest spots at the Hellraiser raves held in the Ulster hall in the early nineties. On the local front influences came in the form of David Holmes and Ian McCready who ran the legendary SugarSweet parties in Belfast. Later John regularly attended Digital Boogie and got a real taste of proper electronic music by hearing what guests like Chris Duckenfield, Hipp-E, Miguel Migs and Ralph Lawson were up to behind the decks. As a result of all this he quickly developed a love for house music and would religiously scour local record shops every weekend looking for the freshest sounds he could find and bombard the town with his mix tapes. It wasn''t long before people took notice and John got asked to play at Shine one of Belfast's longest standing club nights, after a few stellar performances he was soon asked to become an official resident. It was here where John ended up playing back-to-back dj sets with local DJ Timmy Stewart and the Jet Project was formed when they decided to combine forces in the studio. Over the last few years as one half of Jet Project John has had an impressive array of releases on some of the worlds biggest imprints including Get Physical and Soma to name a few plus holds a residency at Belfast's finest house and techno club night, Yello. With this experience and continued love for all things house John decided it was time to unleash some of the solo material he had been working on, until now only being played in his own sets. JMX sees John draw on his earliest influences wanting to merge vintage sounds with his own blend of bass heavy drum laden house grooves. With ep's scheduled to drop on labels such as 2020 Vision One Records and Tsuba, 2012 is looking like a year JMX's name is going to ring out!