Bailey's passion first and foremost lies in being the best Selecta possible. He lives the life of a 100% DJ with a record collection that goes from early electro on up to the latest release lining his bedroom walls. Bailey began his fixation with music when hip hop and electro tapes made their way into his grubby 11 year-old hands almost 20 years ago.  The beats and scratching he heard on those tapes and the break dancing he started seeing around him inspired him to get involved in this new culture circa '82. South London was filled with sound systems back in the day, and Bailey joined one playing house parties, and making tapes.  Later he began venturing out to clubs and heard the sounds popular to the late 80's—Acid House, Detroit Techno, and hardcore.  It was the breakbeat element in hardcore that inspired Bailey, and ultimately led him to Drum’n'Bass.

Bailey was slowly gaining steam as a DJ by playing local pirate radio stations when a chance meeting with Kemistry and Storm led Storm to bring him on board for one of the first Metalheadz club nights.  He is still a  resident at “Metalheadz”, and also at Creative Source's “Swerve” and South London’s “DFX” and regularly represents “31 Records” as guest dj on their tours.

In 2002, Bailey was chosen to present his own radio show ‘Intabeats’ on the BBC’s digital offshoot ‘1xtra’ which has been running extremely succuessfully for over a year now every Sunday night from 23.00 – 01.00. ‘Intabeats’ has even won the prestigious Knowedge Magazine award in 2003 for ‘best drum’n’bass radio show’ , leaving behind fellow contenders L Double and Fabio & Grooverider.

Unlike most Drum n' Bass DJ's of late, Bailey didn’t become famous as a dj due to production credits.  His recordings come in the traditional DJ's form of mixes for the likes of Knowledge Magazine, Lowdown Magazine, Ministry of Sound Radio, and most recently a compilation for the French ‘Black Label’ with MC GQ on Sony's Music Garden imprint and a mix-cd called Soul Thunder for top US label Breakbeat Science. People say Bailey is on of only a handful of successful Drum’n'Bass DJs who made it big without having had the help of releases.  This reality just goes to show he lacks absolutely nothing in the way of skills when he is behind the decks.  He has the capacity to create a sound through sheer mixology to make an impression and stand out from the crowd of Drum n' Bass DJ's out there. His skills have won him what every DJ in the world wants - recognition and most importantly respect. His club bookings have brought him to conquer the world of Drum’n'Bass by playing in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, all over the U.S., and the majority of Europe.

Having said this Bailey has completed a remix for Roni Size which is soon to be released on Ronis Size’s ‘Full Cycle’ label. It happened more or less by mistake, as Bailey wanted to get a track to cut on dubplate and Full Cycle sent him all samples instead with instructions to make a remix. So Bailey decided to give it a shot a the result is an excellent rework that had immidiately been signed up by the prestigious label.

Bailey’s latest project is ‘Intasound’ his own label which he uses not to make money from his big name producer friends but to push up and coming talent and present a diverse sound just as you can find it in his record case. Check www.intasound.net for more details.

Now in 2006, Bailey is busier than ever running his own label Intasound, performing frequent international DJ gigs and in the studio  with his production ‘African Descent’ is due for release on the Metalheadz label.

This is Bailey’s fifth visit to Perth and as a firm favourite with the local crew is the ideal choice for Revolution’s first International showcase.

Bailey quote that he wrote about himself -
“some dj's ride off their names , just being lazy & bad mixing , that annoys me. Thats probably another reason that pushed me to try and become a bigger dj, to give people some proper music instead of taking the money & running.

I try and keep the music fairy hard, even if its jazzy the beats have to be hard, i cant play music that is soft & flat , but i never get to the point where it's not musical anymore. i cant play anything that is too mechanical or noisy . it always needs to have soul. people will always be interested in dancing to music that feels good. The music is always going to keep changing , and wherever drum & bass is at , i'll be there.... you better believe it !!!!”

DJ Bailey @ Rise - Saturday 22nd April 2006