Nek/Moca Juniors

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nekst.bandcamp.com founding member of the Moca Juniors, Moca Records and Backayard Music. In the early 80's, from a very young age, he attended the music school where he made his first steps in music, while learnt to play glockenspiel, piano and fiery. In the mid 80's he felt in love with hip hop music and started scratching records of his father (who was a pirate radio owner in the 70's and vinyl collector, from psychedelic rock to electro and beyond). In the early 90's, he was fully associated with graffiti writting and the bboy movement as a member of the original KFB crew. As a youth of the breakbeat generation he was part of the early Jungle & Drum and Bass soundsystem culture in Greece, tearing dancefloors around the country alongside sounds like Funxion, Dark Drummers, Urban Links, Bass Vip, Feedback, Infaders, Wax Operators etc.. In the mid 90's he moved to the UK and he got affiliated with a lot of UK Garage, Jungle & Dub soundsystems. Having lived in the multi cultural city of Leicester, he came in touch with the sounds of the traditional Uk, Caribbean, Africa and Asia. Moved to South East London after few years where he spent most of his time in Jamaican speaking areas like Brixton, Stockwell, Elephant & Castle etc.. This gave him a whole new spectrum in terms of ethnic musical dynamics and widened up his musical horizons. Returned in Greece in 2002 and started filtering all those influences into a more organic sound of mediterranean Reggae. In 2006, he formed the

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