Well… here’s what it said on this page couple of years ago. I’ll be blunt, it needs to updated, and the whole third person thing is a bit dated, as is… well… the copy itself. If you must read on, here you go.

DJ Royal has a musical career that spans well over a decade and has included sounds ranging from deep house, tech-house, techno, electro, nu-jazz, hip-hop and whatever falls in between.

As a DJ, Royal entered the dance scene in its early days; his first gigs were playing hip hop in Adelaide in 1991/92, but it was the move to playing techno and then house, especially the sounds from Detroit later that year that saw him pick up the flow.

Anthems @ Heaven Nightclub (Adelaide) - 1998

From there the sounds of Detroit techno also gave way to other sounds, whether it was the infectious disco rhythms of DJ Sneak, the deep and luscious house sounds of Metro Area and St. Germain, minimalicious microhouse from Ricardo Villalobos, HMC’s space-funk, the new-wave electrodisco sounds of $tinkworx or the sounds of classic acid and jackin’ house by the likes of Phuture and Tyree Cooper. More than ten years on, his style hasn’t changed, it’s just the location that is different - now residing in Sydney, however the sounds that really took him to DJing remain the same.

Royal has performed alongside a wide array of internationally reknowned artists such as Luke Slater, Dave Clarke, Trevor Rockliffe, Claude Young, Alan “T-1000″ Oldham, Fatboy Slim, Sonic Animation, HMC, Voiteck and Christopher Lawrence.

Royal and RZ-1 - Jack Your Body @ Mandarin Club (Sydney) - 2005

Around Australia, Royal has played at venues large and small, some of which include: Heaven (Anthems), Synagogue (various), St Paul’s (various), Le Rox (various), Cargo (various), Mars, Proscenium (various), Rhino, Crown & Sceptre (various), Minke/Skylab and 69 Light Square (various in multiple club incarnations) in Adelaide. At Billboard (VFM) and Sub Club (Fokus) in Melbourne and in Sydney - Scary Canary (Yellow), The Manning Bar (.lucid), Mandarin Club, Sly Fox (Hi-Jinks), The Lounge, The Burdekin, The Hollywood, Bentley Bar & Frontier (Crunch), Globe and Chicane.

He has also played at some of Australia’s biggest musical festivals including The Big Day Out, Vibes On A Summers Day, The Adelaide Fringe Festival and WOMAD.

Further to his DJing, he has also been prolific with the pen, whether it was writing/managing/editing the print zine Sub Lumen, a zine which covered all things electronic in the mid 90s or nowadays his monthly music column on In The Mix.