DJ Lock Steady aka Negus Tafari was born in Auckland, New Zealand into a Rastafarian family, with reggae music being a predominant factor in his life from birth.
As a youth growing up in New Zealand, he was exposed to all the usual kinds of commercial radio and music, but this soon changed when at the tender age of five he traveled to Jamaica with his father, longstanding New Zealand reggae selector, Sgt Benji.
Here Lock Steady was introduced to top radio stations such as Irie FM and exposed to pulsating sound systems on every corner, not to mention being dragged around Kingston to every record distributor and various studios.
With reggae as his staple diet it was inevitable that Lock Steady would embrace the music and culture. In 2008 he started finding his own style and taste and began making refixes at home. He made his official DJing debut the following year at the Auckland dancehall club night, Daybreak.
Since then he has played with the Twelve Tribes of Israel Sound, has had two of his refixes pressed onto vinyl, occasionally plays on Base FM and KFM, and is receiving good promotion for his mixes.
Lock Steady is now honing his production skills studying electronic music production and is looking to focusing more on building his own riddims. Stay tuned as the best is yet to come from this youthman!
More info:
Lock Steady on SoundCloud
Big up DJ Lock Steady for this Top Ten tunes for September 2010.
1. Gappy Ranks – Pumpkin Belly (Peckings)
2. Joggo – Gun Down – Gun Down Riddim (Dredda Records)
3. Little Kirk – Free Up – Things Tough Riddim (VI Connection Records & Patate Records)
4. Pad Anthony – Burn Babylon – Long Travel Riddim (Koogah Sound)
5. Chan Dizzy – Strange Face (Russian)
6. Million Stylez – So Di Ting Set – Cosa Nostra Riddim (Ward 21)
7. Peetah Morgan – Di Government – Hustlin Riddim (Bost & Bim)
8. Leftside – Enemies (Keep Left)
9. Busy Signal – Nuh Fraid (UIM Records)
10. Kibaki – Guide Us [Gully Bomb Riddim] (DJ Frass)
