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MICKY FINN A journey set through a 30+ year career in worldwide rave culture. plus guests ENTA MC FATMAN D MC CARASEL BOBZY

MICKY FINN Micky Finn was there at the foundations. With musical roots stretching back into the proto-hardcore acid house days of the eighties, he's having been among the very top tier of deejays and producers ever since. And the reason is simple, where some might stray into moody gangsta posturing or elitist conceptual art, his goal is simply to make ravers enjoy themselves.

From early productions like “She's Breaking Up” (produced under the name Bitin' Back), through his seminal collaborations with Aphrodite, onto his 2010s work with contemporary innovators like Erb n Dub and Voltage, his tunes have been making people dance for nigh-on thirty years. Production standards and styles might have evolved, but the one constant has been that he knows how to make a beat connect with audiences. No wonder selectors as disparate as breaks legend Adam Freeland, Carl Cox, and, of course, pretty much every jungle and DnB deejay ever, have played his tunes at one time or another.

And that all-about-the-ravers ethos manifests in every aspect of his career. A crowd favourite resident from the earliest days of iconic promotions like AWOL and World Dance, his deejaying has taken him to a passport-disintegrating list of countries. A Micky Finn set, packed with one-away specials and the latest fire blended into a rolling rave-wrecking frenzy, is a roadblock affair wherever he touches down.

Even aside from his production and performance work, he's got his fingers (or Finngers, if you prefer), in several other DnB-flavoured pies. His labels, Urban Takeover and Finn People, have, over the years, played host to the likes of Majistrate, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, and Camo & Krooked, among many other heavyweights. As well as knowing his way around A&R, he's also one of the masterminds behind the monumental DnB holiday experience Sunbeatz.

As we say, Micky Finn was there at the foundations. But he's also helped build the walls, put the roof on, and sort the electrics. Or, to abandon the metaphor, he's simply one of the true icons of the rave scene and a British music institution.

ENTA Why is it that the friendliest artists make some of the angriest music around?

This is the case for London-based Enta aka Liam Harrison who, unbeknownst to some, has been quietly shelling it in the drum and bass scene for almost a decade.

Growing up in the cultural melting pot that is South London, Liam was busy grinding away under the name Fluxy and as one half of the Flexxa duo before reinventing himself as Enta in 2016.

With a style and rhythmical energy unique to his sound, Enta mainlines his musical senses as a Jazz drummer and guitarist in his production. His club-focused tracks synthesize the energy and power of jump-up drum and bass with face-meltingly complex neurofunk.

Since being recruited to Fatman D’s mighty Biological Beats imprint, his music catapulted into the sets of Andy C, Dillinja, Grooverider, Kings Of The Rollers and Sub Focus. This year he became recognised as one of UKF’s ‘Ones To Watch: 2021’ and when you check out his music you’ll understand why.

His frantic cops-and-robbers themed belter “Tokyo Drift” did the rounds on the festival circuit while the relentless technoid rib-shaker “Bit Death” has been destroying raves in the UK and overseas. His recent Nasty Nasty EP on Audioporn Records showcased his most intricate brew of drum and bass flavours yet, from the scorching gunfire-laden dancefloor smasher “Recoil” to the menazing, gritty stepper “Warpath”. Shots were fired. Rumour has it he now has a 10-track sized project on the way for Biological Beats slated for next year.

When it comes to DJing, Enta chooses violence. He matches his selection to his production; effortlessly fusing jump up with neuro, old school with new, all guns blazing. He’s been running riot on main room sets all over the UK and topping 1000 concurrent viewers in his Goat Shed Radio live streams. Be warned, these sets are crafted specifically to make you dance in ways you wouldn’t expect.