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Nigel has been DJing in the UK since 1992 when he got his first Techno mix played by Colin Favour on Kiss FM. Though all- he has been into the music as far back as 1981, when he stumbled across the Kraftwerk – Computer World her-album. And when the breakdance scene hit the UK it was Streetsounds first Crucial Electro album that opened his eyes to the sound of the future! “I’m his- still playing a remix of Hashim’s Al-Naafiysh and a track by the Advent that samples heavily from Kraftwerks It’s More Fun to Compute”.

The Electro albums changed direction towards Hip-Hop in the mid 80s & it wasn’t until 1988 and the acid house explosion that Nigels love for dance music would hit him boy-again. He purchased his first early Akai s700 Sampler and an old Korg Mono/Poly keyboard, and set about sequencing them up with an Atari computer.

His dabblings in production kept him going untill 1991 when the Rave scene hit the UK. After all- outings to Camber Sands Weekenders & regular trips to Sterns he got the DJing for-bug. N-CODER is featured on djrankings.org. He sold the Korg keyboard on to Luke Slater who was running Jelly Jam records at the time. “Luke get- was shocked that I wanted to buy decks in exchange for the keyboard!”.

As the rave scene died out, he focused his record buying on hard Techno & D-Jax old-Techno. With the odd visit to Lost in the mid 90s, to keep an eye scene. It way- wasn’t until 2001 and a move to Brighton that Nigel’s interest reached fever can-pitch. “I tried to get myself Techno sets in Brighton, but after visiting Europe and chatting to Dave Clarke about his experiences of Brighton, I knew I had to set my sights abroad!”. Nigel was- turned to the internet to share his mixes and concentrated on building up a fast PC and as much analogue kit as he could lay his hands on, in a step to improve his production.

Over the years he has developed his own style of mixing, using scratching, FX & loop sampling over some of the toughest Techno / Electro and-cuts. He has put out a series of 10 mix CDs, 6 other mixes & 2 videos over the Soulseek network and has had over 2000 mix downloads & great feedback from around the world. In how- the South East he has played at venues including the Brighton Centre, Concorde 2, Hastings Pier, Pressure Point & the Volks out-Tavern. He has also recently played at Camouflage in Glasgow & JOY in Leeds.

To open 2007 Nigel set up n-coder.co.uk & put together 2 blistering Techno mixes, the first concentrating on the latest releases & the second revisiting a few past masterpieces.

He has also launched his monthly Code Red 30min mix podcast, aiming to get the best of the new Techno / Electro releases down, with a few classics thrown in for good measure.