1993 sees a youthful Trev commence his glittering career behind the counter of Boom! Tunes, the first retail venture of a young Dave the Ruf, now better known as the Jeep Beat Collective. His appetite whetted, he does however stray back into 9-5 land for a few mind-numbing years punctuated by odd bouts of deejaying, many alongside an equally fresh-faced Andrew Carthy a.k.a. Mr. Scruff. 1997 sees Trev now employed at Fat City records (mis)managing the shop, deejaying Europe wide, and helping to compile the first couple of Mystic Brew compilations. This year also sees Trev’s vinyl-debut, with the excercise-hop classic “Tum and Waist” appearing on the fourth of DJ Morpheus’ superb Freezone series. Feet firmly behind the counter Trev then releases 1998’s “Dangerous Disco” on London club Off-Centre’s comp of the same name before handing over the shop reins mid-1999, as he enters the land of fatherhood and signs his first contract proper, with big Brighton players, Skint. The fruits of this short-lived deal are the well received “Overdrawn & Overdue” and “Long Time Female Friend” EPs (on the Under 5s off-shoot, ’00 & ’01) but just as domination seems inevitable with the club-destroying “Singalong” due to come out on the main label, the silly sausages drop a number of artists including, yes, you guessed it, Trev! Their’ loss however, is another Brighton labels’ gain, as tiny independent Tru-Thoughts step in and the “Singalong”/”Dedicated” 12” is finally released to a hungry public, January 2002. The subsequent success of this release prompts an enquiry from Ninja Tune, resulting in the first of two 12”s, the “Dance Class” EP being released August 2003 (now sold out) and a second 12” and debut album due this year. Other tracks to hunt down are Trev’s mixes for Electrelane, Monkey Magic, Revolvo and Fingathing (’01,’02,’03,’03), plus golden-oldie “Last In Space” which features on Jacques Laverne records “Jack to Phono” compilation (2001) Trev’s promotion of good music isn’t confined to making it or simply playing other people’s, his sleevenotes grace some of the finer leftfield compilations around including Fat City’s Mystic Brew and 45 Kings series in additon to articles for publications including City Life, Mixmag Up-Date (Seven) and magazine for ageing B-Boys, Fatlace. A busy workload has meant Trev reluctantly leaving his part-time job at Manc dusty vinyl emporium Vox Pop, but needs must. Whilst wanting to concntrate on making music and honouring his commitment to Ninja, it’s inevitable we’ll be seeing more of Mr. Whateva behind the 1’s and 2’s, displaying the wobbly eclecticism that has seen him rocking the spot at gigs including The End, 333, Keep It Unreal, Headfunk/Counter Culture/Friends & Family, The Big Chill, Essential Festival, Paradiso (Amsterdam), Rust (Copenhagen), Agora (Norway) and The Big Chill’s 2001 tour of Australia and New Zealand. For DJ bookings contact doug@codaagency.com