Biography

Image of Paul Velocity when he was about 18Paul Velocity has been a DJ for over 9 solid years, starting back when he was just fifteen. In the mid nineties, Paul Velocity was heavily influenced by the sounds of happy hardcore and began to develop a taste for feel-good tunes, rolling bass lines and hands-in-the air piano riffs. When it started out for him it was all about the feel good vibe and that is still true in his music today.

The hardcore scene began a rapid decline during 1998 and so Paul’s attention turned to the more diverse sounds of UKGarage. UKG was still in its infancy then and was only just starting to get recognition on the underground scene, but with the help of fellow DJs, Paul Velocity helped to push it forwards on RenegadeFM during the late nineties. The Garage scene was a good step towards influencing his style. That feel-good sound that was so sought after matured from happy hardcore pianos and stabs into soulful Garage vocals, intelligent beats and breaks.

Image of Paul Velocity in the mixAs the millennium turned, Paul Velocity progressed on to organising events and helped to run the under 18’s event Club Empire in Guildford during 2000 and 2001, a 1500 capacity venue headlining some of the most well known DJ/Producers of the time. Paul has had the privilege to work alongside his hardcore heroes of Slipmatt, Dougal, Sy, Nicky BlackMarket and more. During theses years the UKG scene turned ugly and was getting such a bad reputation that bars and clubs refused to play it in their venue. It was also getting stale and so it was time to change styles.

Paul took the soulful vocal sounds of early garage that he liked so much and found his new home in the realms of funky house. There was still a passion for the feel good tunes and intelligent sound and so this change in music genre developed through artists such as Soul Avengerz, Junior Jack, Freemasons and Disco Darlings to name but a few.

Image of Paul Velocity in the mixMoving on into the early years of the millennium, Paul Velocity not only wanted to play great music - he wanted to make it too. He has produced several bootlegs and remixes, played out on London’s famous KissFM and Kisstory Club Tours. These tracks (available for download) have received high appreciation from Streetboy and the crowd that dance to his tunes.

After taking a year out of the DJ life between 2004 and 2005, Paul Velocity is now back on track and playing at a variety of venues and events. Very much a funky house DJ his music is upfront, cool, sexy, chunky and funky.

Venues Played

A list of venues, events and locations where DJ Paul Velocity has played in the past:

Event Venue Town/City County/Country
Platform Six Sleepers Wine Bar Basingstoke Surrey
Friday Night Anam Bar Islington London
Raunchy Rhythms Radio show Global Global
4BeatRadio Radio show Global Global
SSRadio Radio show Global Global
HouseProud Hurtwood Park Polo Club Cranleigh Surrey
Re-launch party Gwernllwyn Nightclub Cross Hands Carmarthenshire
Crack baby Bar Latino Croydon London
Summit Hidden Vauxhall London
Warm-up Bar M San Antonio Ibiza
Jail Club The Station Woking Surrey
Weekly Friday / Saturday Rat & Parrot Woking Surrey
New Year’s Eve Funk In The Dungeon Buckingham Buckinghamshire
Opening Night Hush..! Godalming Surrey
Funk’d Electronica Yates’ Camberley Surrey
Funk’d Fever Yates’ Camberley Surrey
Squeeze Bar Sia Wimbledon London
Frequency Agincourt Camberley Surrey
Three Phase The Toad Camberley Surrey
Empire Guildford Civic Hall Guildford Surrey
Xpression Alley Cat Live Reading Surrey
Friday Night Scratched Woking Surrey
Friday Night MD’s Woking Surrey
Thursday Night Bar Zuka Guildford Surrey
System D&B Agincourt Camberley Surrey

Personal Details

Age
27
Hometown
Woking, Surrey
Music Styles
Funky House, Oldskool, Club Classics, UK Garage circa 1998 - 2001, Funky Breaks, Electro

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