Youthful Implants - Breaks, Nu Skool Breaks - DJ Sets

30 yr old, Classically trained vocalist Alex Virr (aka Youthful Implants) started DJing drum n bass whilst at university in Manchester in 1996. After 2 years representing on the student scene and promoting a night called Beatific he returned to London and began working on a record stall in Camden selling nu skool garage and DnB alongside Ollie Moira of Hardcore Beats.

From there he met Clayton from the south london based Trouble on Vinyl / Renegade Hardware studio who offered... Read more 30 yr old, Classically trained vocalist Alex Virr (aka Youthful Implants) started DJing drum n bass whilst at university in Manchester in 1996. After 2 years representing on the student scene and promoting a night called Beatific he returned to London and began working on a record stall in Camden selling nu skool garage and DnB alongside Ollie Moira of Hardcore Beats.

From there he met Clayton from the south london based Trouble on Vinyl / Renegade Hardware studio who offered the opportunity to work for him both as a recording artist and consultant on fledgling breaks label Octagon. The Funkaholics were born with founding members Joe Grey and Tam Cooper (now known as Precision Cuts).

An EP and two singles later the Funkaholics were receiving props from Adam Freeland, Tayo and Tipper in the early days of the nu skool breaks scene. During this time the Funkaholics played sets around London for Chew the Fat, Renegade Hardware at the End and Mass. After an amiable split, the Funkaholcs were disbanded and Precision Cuts were born whilst Alex left London to pursue a career in graphic design.

Three years later Alex returned to London in 2002 and soon after hooked up with DJ Jurassik to help mould the Supatronix sound and enjoys being resident at the Hoxton based bi-monthly parties alongside the legendary AWE Soundsystem and the hugely talented Malinna. Following guest slots on BreaksFM and NuSkoolBreaks radio and excited by the developing sounds and continuing diversity within the whole spectrum of breakbeat,

Youthful Implants' sound encompasses everything from the electro-oriented side of breaks to its more hardcore cousins. A recent hook up with producer extraordinaire Anti-Science saw new ideas and skills brought to the table and these two have been combining Ants' superb mixdown capabilities with some of YIs' older material to produce some brand new forward thinking breaks due for release on new label Waveshape in 2007.

With the success of Airborne on Pocket Rockets Records in record shops, the ever-growing success of the Supatronix parties, vocal work coming in and regular guest slots on NSB radio - the future looks good. Show less