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[DJ Hyper]

Twenty three year old Guy Hatfield is being heralded as a breakbeat leader of the pack after his work on the Y3K album and with his own club promotion company ‘Waxworks’.  His aim is to take the progressive breakbeat sound forward and around the world.

Breaking into the deep house free party scene in 92, Hyper soon bored of the growing commercialism surrounding the scene and turned his attention to breakbeat and hip hop in the fur fore of the Mo’ Wax scene of the early 90’s.

After packing in his job manufacturing garden sheds in his home town of Lincoln, Guy’s inspiration took to him to London to further the cause.  Taking a position with Sony in their international European division Sine, Guy became determined to share his love of hip hop electro and breaks with the world at large.  Encouraged by the emergence of a new breaks sound Guy set up his own club promotion company Waxworks, working with the PuSH label, TCR and artists such as Hybrid who were finally making the kind of music that he wanted to hear dominating the dance floors.

Guy quickly started DJing again at the request of Lee Burridge, at his Sunday session co-hosted with his Tyrant partner Craig Richards at the Atlantis Bar off Baker Street.  After becoming a resident at the Atlantis Bar, Guy’s relationship with Tyrant grew and he now regularly plays at Tyrant nights at The Bomb in Nottingham.

Hyper’s unique DJ sets, pushing forward breaks, have earned him the respect of fellow pioneers Adam Freeland and Tayo and the legend that is John Digweed.  Hyper is now a bimonthly resident in the PuSH room at Digweed’s now infamous Bedrock night at Heaven, as well as Hybrid’s new club night in Bristol, helping him fulfil his aim of spreading the word of breaks and converting the house hordes to a new accessible style of music.

With this aim in mind Hyper compiled and mixed the Y3K compilation on Distinctive Breaks, hailed as the most important Breaks album to date, making album of the month in DJ, Muzik, Mixmag, Wax and Ministry to name but a few.  Guy’s second instalment of Y3K was released in August 2000.

Currently in the studio refining his own production style with releases due on the Whole Nine Yards label under the DJ Hyper vs Dylan Rhymes monicker and collaborating with Dylan Rhymes, Guy can legitimately claim to be one of the busiest men in the UK.  As well as his own company, DJing and studio production Guy has recently joined various magazine as their specialist breakbeat reviewer.

DJ Hyper is a man with a mission , expect much more from him and expect your expectations to be surpassed.  Just thank God that he decided that manufacturing sheds wasn’t the career for him. 

DJ Residencies at The Bomb in Nottingham & the PuSH room @ Bedrock in London Guy’s first single for Meat Katie, ‘Trigger’ was released in August 00

Thanks to Leah Riches of INPHO PR for the biography

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