Dj Darkhorse is a native of Slough, England (yes, The Office), He Spent most of his Teen years at the early UK warehouse parties around SW London, like Sunrise and Energy.
A favorite stop was on a Sunday at Queens Reservior at Full Circle, Listening to the Likes of Rocky and Diesel, Andrew Weatherall and Terry Farly dropping tunes. The music then was varied with Dj’s sets that were all about the music played with anything from A Guy Called Gerald’s “Voodoo Ray” to Edie Brickell’s “What I Am.” At the height of The UK rave scene Dj Darkhorse moved to the USA.
In 1995 Dj Darkhorse and Charles Uzzel Edwards started The Gardening Club in San Francisco, A Monday night affair, it offered a decompression for the SF music industry after a long hard weekend. Dj’s had to play music they would drop for their friends at home on a sunday early morning after too hard a night out on the town. Dj’s that played at the club were Matty Skylab, The Mammal, Felix The Dog, Derrick Carter, Mark Farina, Jesus and the Alien[had to be there], DB, Jeno, Garth, Markie, Patrick Pulsinger, Pete Namlock and many more great Dj’s from around the world passing through San Francisco. The club was set in the tropical resteraunt location The Carribean Zone. Inside the building was the Doobie Brothers old touring jet plane, made to look like it had crashed into a jungle. With one side of the plane looking out over the dancefloor. The roof slid back on the venue, so you could see the clear sky at night in the summer, as you listened to the music and eat free food from a vegan resteraunt. The whole place was covered in tropical plants and waterfalls, a perfect place for The Gardening Club. We managed to take our form of music and Djing out from the second room at raves, to the main room and focus.
Darkhorse also has been a writer for magazines like Urb and XLR8R, reviewing and writing features. He also did a stint as an editor for XLR8R on the Downtempo/Electronic section of the mag.
A Seasoned DJ, he has traveled all over the world to perform, he has over the last 12 years, played along side the likes of Alex Patterson and the Orb, Hardkiss, Death in Vegas, Herbaliser, Amon Tobin, Pharcyde, Chemical Brothers, Tim Love Lee, Runaways UK, Coldcut, Kid Koala, Consolidated, Doc Martin, Rockers Hi-Fi, Daft Punk and Dave Seaman to name a few and at clubs like The Gathering, Basics, Boogie Buffet, Groove Kitchen, Stompy, Black Diamond, Bulletproof, Deep Faith, Wicked, Area 51, Funky Tekno Tribe, Sound factory in NY, Nikita in SF, Heavenly, Ministry of Sound, and Renaissance at the Sanafir/Pacha in Egypt.
He is part of the band Fishbunny (Three*Sixty Records) and Three Wheels Out (Pussyfoot Records), as well as releasing music under his moniker Darkhorse. He writes music for his own label Three*Sixty Records. Other labels he has releases on are Moonshine, Ubiquity, City of Angels, Fax Label, Tummy Touch/Peace Feast, Primal, Om Records, V2 Japan, XLR8R and Pussy Foot.
Oh also now he is putting his musicial knowledge to work as a music supervisor for films and TV.
