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Tonight’s Guest Mix comes from Scott Bailey and we’ve really been looking forward to it as we know he’s put together something really special. Join us tonight, following Richard Gray and his Nebula show at 18:00 GMT we will be handing the Mixpub decks over to Scott at 19:00 GMT.
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Scott was born in Somerset, England, and grew up in a rock ‘n’ roll household.
But a chance viewing of a Jean-Michel Jarre concert on the TV in the 80s introduced him to the world of electronic music, which built foundations for the years to come.
Fantazia and Helter Skelter cassettes were regularly passed around friends in his teens, but when Carl Cox’s ‘F.A.C.T’ mix CD was put in front of him there was one track on it that changed his electronic music direction for good. That track was Cygnus X - The Orange Theme.
From there he found Pete Tong’s ‘Essential Selection’ and ‘Essential Mix’ on Radio 1 in 1998 which opened him up to the world of trance and house music. Paul Oakenfold and Sasha became instant favourite DJs.
It was at this time he got into spinning records himself when he was able to get hold of some second hand belt-driven turntables, and started hanging out at (the now closed) Rite-On records in Taunton instead of attending lessons at college.
Other DJs such as John Digweed, Danny Tenaglia, Jimmy Van M and Chris Fortier came on his radar around the year 2000 after finding Digweed’s Kiss100 show, and that’s where his love of dark, tribal beats stuck and has remained ever since.
Scott took a 10+ year hiatus from bedroom/house party DJing around 2008 and went back to his roots of rock music, but when the COVID lockdown struck he started listening to some old DJ sets again which reignited his passion for buying and playing house music.
He’s since been recording regular monthly mixes for his Mixcloud page which can be found at www.mixcloud.com/djscottbailey
