London’s free/warehouse party scene. It wasn’t long before Ant had built a reputation for himself as a solid, unique and consistent techno DJ and had earned the respect of many people throughout the scene, including Chris, Julian and Aaron Liberator. Over the next two years, he concentrated on improving and defining his style while playing for Immersion Sound System. He gained valuable experience and got his first taste of international DJ lifestyle playing a handful of gigs in France, Germany, Czech Republic and Holland.
1997 was a turning point, about the time when he was first getting involved in producing, he got his first gig in America playing alongside John Selway and Christopher Lawrence. Ant realised in order to maintain these opportunities he would have to concentrate on writing and producing more. He had some basic studio experience, co-writing with Guy McAffer, DAVE The Drummer and D.D.R., but hadn’t written anything on his own.
After a short 6-month studio-tech course, he was given the job of house engineer at Kinetec Studio by D.D.R. and Kinetec boss, Mark Harrington. This was the opportunity that Ant had been looking for and provided him with the groundbase of knowledge and skills that he relies on to this day. As a result of writing records at Kinetec and releasing them on such labels as Stay Up Forever, Cluster, Smitten, Hazchem, Infected, Maximum Minimum and Bang On, he started to receive more DJ work on both a national and international level. He also began to gain recognition from a wider range of DJ’s such as Carl Cox, who has licensed numerous tracks from Ant for CD mixes, the most notable of which being 'Carl Cox’s Global Mix'.
Having the opportunity to play throughout the U.K. and abroad in countries such as Poland, USA, Canada, Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa and Japan enabled Ant to join the Stay Up Forever DJ Agency, where he is still represented to date.
In July 2000, Ant decided to start his own record label based from Kinetec Studio, called Power Tools. It was in conjunction with Infectious Distribution. Unfortunately, Infectious went bankrupt in 2002, denting many labels and related companies, but Power Tools survived, fortunately being picked up by the Stay Up Forever Collective and Truelove with distribution by Amato. Power Tools is now a staple ingredient within the collective, releasing new material every month, and getting wide recognition.
Ant’s musical knowledge doesn’t stop at techno. He has the ability to produce a wide range of different styles. When writing something other than techno, he has been known to use different pseudonyms. In 2001, he teamed up with Thermobee to produce 'Stoned Trance' released by Tall Paul’s label, Duty Free Recordings. The track reached number 14 in the U.K. Dance Charts and appeared on Ministry Of Sound, Pete Tong’s Clubbers Bible, EMI and Bedrock CD's. More recently he has had further success in the U.K. Dance Charts, reaching number 5 in 2003 with “Rhythm”, a techno collaboration with Andy Farley. He has also written music for television programmes and commercials for such companies as MTV Europe and Sony.
In September 2003, a year after Kinetec Records and Studio was bought by Banging Tunes, Ant decided to leave and set up “The Power Station”, his own studio in the Docklands of London, which is where he can be found working today, continuing to provide the underground dance music scene with his unique formula and ideas .
Over the last two years Ant has firmly established himself as a key player in the London techno scene both as a DJ and as a Producer.