Nicky Blackmarket (born Nicholas Andersson-Gylden) is a British

drum and bass Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...

DJ and

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. Blackmarket is regarded as one of the pivotal figures in the early jungle/drum and bass scene. He has been playing drum and bass all over the world for the past two decades.

Career

Blackmarket started DJing in the 1980s when he was 14 and initially played electro before moving on to play all different types of dance music in house parties and on various

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s, including Pulse FM and Eruption FM, in London. He is also famous for being part-owner of independent dance music record store Blackmarket Records in

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(now known as BM-Soho). In the early 1990s, he created a department within the store for the breakbeat scene which would evolve into drum and bass. Blackmarket has sporadically produced tunes ("Spam EP" as Nick OD), however his main focus has been on playing tunes as a DJ all over the UK and the world. Blackmarket is also a fan of West London EFL team

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References

External links

Discogs.com - Nicky Blackmarket
English record producers English drum and bass musicians English DJs Club DJs Electronic dance music DJs Remixers Living people 1966 births {{UK-electronic-musician-stub