02/04/2026
Here’s the story of a track I wrote with DJ Phil Smart some 30 years ago using skateboard sounds to create a breakbeat track.

There’s a moment on Phil K’s revered Balance 004 mix that perfectly sums up the freewheeling inventiveness of the Aussie breaks era. Just as the emotional centrepiece of Scrambler’s Free is winding down, the sounds of skateboards clanking on metal and wheels grinding against concrete begin to ...
