Ja hoor, hij is er weer na een aantal jaren van afwezigheid; mr Billy Nasty! Wat gingen we lekker op zijn mixtapes in de jaren 90!

Biografie (English)
Billy Nasty born 28th March 1969, has been DJing half his life, and spent ten years on the world circuit as a professional spinner. He has played at some of the biggest dance events on the planet, and consistently stars in the upper regions of DJ Magazines Top 100 DJs Poll. He has enjoyed a busy recording career, formed a seminal techno label to match his DJing success, and set up his own DJ agency to bring nurtured talent to the world.

Nasty’s passion for music started early, enjoying rare groove, go-go and funk. Billy had already taken up DJing when house music exploded in the UK in the late 1980s.
Nasty was pushed to the cutting-edge of London dance culture when in 1989 he was taken on by well-known record shop Zoom. This position built up his industry contacts whilst providing a well-timed boost to his DJ reputation. At the beginning of 1990, Nasty won his first residency with Steve Bicknell. Based in Sohos notorious Brain Club, -The Exploding Plastic Inevitable- ran for two and a half years. “We played nu-groove records, loops, and European stuff-, explains Nasty. -Dance mixes of Happy Mondays, My Bloody Valentine and James also featured heavily-. Its widely acknowledged that these sounds were the paving stones for the building progressive house scene.

Alongside co-promoter Jim Masters, Nasty founded Open To Torture, a bi-monthly event at The End in London. Co-existing with his Tortured label and his peculiar surname, all of his events are monickered to shock people into remembering them. Evidently, it works fine. To this day, OTT survives as one of the few quality techno nights in London. It has acted as a showcase for talent both attached to and around the label. Guests have included The Advent, Green Velvet, DJ Slip, Oliver Ho, Holy Ghost, Swag, Laidback Luke, Cherry Bomb and Access 58.

1998 saw Nasty’s first expedition to the States, the Americans quickly warming to his style. He has returned frequently to spin at New Yorks legendary Twilo and also in places such as Chicago, Detroit, Washington, San Francisco, LA, Toronto, Seattle and Canada. Back in Europe, he was voted second most popular international DJ of ’98 by Dutch dance fans.
Of late, Nasty has been managing the general running and shaping of the Tortured label, recently celebrating its twentieth release. The Theremin agency boasts a roster that includes Space DJz, Adam Beyer, Cari Lekebusch, Daz Saund, Marco Carola, Umek, Gaetek, Joel Mull, Steve Rachmad, Nick Rapaccioli, Craig Walsh, Oliver Ho, Keith Fielder, Alex Handley, Christian Smith, Mark Ambrose, Laidback Luke and Mark Wiliams.

Tortured also put out ‘The Torture Chamber’; a brand new mix CD by Billy demonstrating the quality and style of Tortured’s trademark thumping beats and power cuts. “I wanted to do the mix CD as a label compilation because I think that we’ve put out some superb music out on the label-, he says. It will be the first in a series of ten, with DJs involved with the label mixing future ones. -I want this to be the best series of techno CD’s for the next decade”, he says wistfully.