DJ Stormz
Born and raised in Northern England coming from a family of designers, DJ Stormz also known as STORMZ/THE STORM/TOOFAN/ is known for his hard hitting Bhangra show on Sky Digital Akash Radio, and worldwide on the internet. Stormz has increased his listenership, after playing eastern dnb on his shows, which is a rare sight on national radio. The show is listened to by many listeners from Norway, Germany, Canada, the United States, Spain, Italy and the UK through the internet, and Sky Digital. Within his first two years at the station it was nominated twice for an Asian music award at the AMAs in the UK. Stormz continues to support the asian scene with his radio show, which is heard from listners from many age ranges,he has also been pushing the urban side of the asian scene from his early days of working as a presenter artists such as sona family,due to the lack of support within the scene for young asian artists, this has led him to setting up his 2nd label Toofan Entertainment which is aimed at helping pure home grown talent within the asian scene be pushed forward. This in time will deliver uk & worldwide asian artists music to the worldwide bhangra/asian fanbase, with his own debut bhangra album being released on the label as well as its roster of artists, more at Toofanentertainment.com
Besides djing bhangra/asian dnb, Stormz also continues to dj hip hop rnb and ragga music which he previously did before working on the asian scene in the Uk. He first started mixing and recording music from tv and film soundtracks,on tapes which he would mix tape to tape and than take to school with him, age (8), his early influences included rap, soul, and jazz, acid house, and other genres that evolved during that period. Getting his first set of decks at the age of 17 Stormz started mixing Hip Hop RnB beats with Ragga Accapellas, to make mixtapes and sell them on, When Jungle music first emerged, Stormz would go and get vinyl records for the local barber whome was a key figuare (DJ)within the DnB scene in the northwest, this led him to being influenced to djing jungle dnb, than around 1993, Stormz would start to include Eastern DnB within his jungle DnB sets and mixtapes, after hosting a few dnb and hip hop NiGHTS,and completing his studies in Graphic Arts, Stormz moved to the south of england to work in music and design,and the setting up of his labels.