Who is dub phizix

View all similar artists. View all trending tracks. Loading player…. Scrobble from Spotify? Connect to Spotify Dismiss. Search Search. View version history. I still listen to it now. He bought me a guitar for Christmas when I was 4 and I spent every day trying to replay what was on his records. At primary school I had a teacher called Mrs Harling and she was probably the first person who made me believe I could have an actual career in music, so I owe her a lot.

When I went to secondary school I never learned to read music mainly because I think music is something you should listen to, not look at. Luckily my mum and dad believed Mrs Harling so I got a lot of support in what I wanted to do.

When I was about 9 I had a job selling Christmas trees I got paid in guitar pedals , and I got one of the little spikes off the branches stuck in my face.

I had to get it taken out on Christmas day. But my dad also had a lot of '60s pop music. Later on that developed. At the same I had also got into hip hop and later garage, bashment, grime. I should also mention Paul Weller, the guy is a genius.

He put the record on and went next door, listening to the music filtered down to its lower end through the walls. Ovens had been using the break as the building block for his songs, which never seemed to work. A few days later he got a copy and took it home, intent on cracking its code.

The more you gotta think about something, the less you can put your soul into it. And the better you know something without having to think about it, the more you can put your soul into it. It felt pure, from the soul. Part of what makes Manchester special is that it fosters a close-knit artistic community. Regardless of stylistic inclinations, most Mancunian artists support and work together in myriads of ways. Growing confident that music was his vocation, Ovens took a leap of faith. He rented a space above famous local venue Sankeys Soap, just outside the city centre, and set up a studio, putting his growing knowledge to use.

Faced with a decisive fork in the road, he made the only decision he could. It was Marcus Intalex, another Manchester mainstay with a history of providing a leg up to younger talent, who gave Ovens the needed seal of approval to kick-start his career.