Oxygen Presents - MIKEE B on 12th October

IN JUST UNDER FIVE YEARS DJ SPOONY, MIKEE B AND TIMMI MAGIC JOINED TOGETHER TO BECOME THE MAIN DRIVING FORCE BEHIND UK GARAGE. THE COLLECTIVE THAT HAS MADE SUCH A HUGE INFLUENCE ON THE PROGRESSION OF THIS MUSIC IS KNOWN TODAY AS THE DREEM TEEM.

WITH TIMMI AND MIKEE MOVING ON FROM THEIR HARDCORE AND ACID HOUSE ROOTS, THEY MET DJ SPOONY AND STARTED THEIR BROADCASTING CAREER ON PIRATE RADIO STATION ‘LONDON UNDERGROUND’. THIS SOON LED TO THE FIRST OF THEIR SERIES OF SUCCESSFUL COMPILATION ALBUMS, ‘DREEM TEEM IN SESSION VOL. I’ IN ’96 AND ‘VOL. II’ IN ’97 AND ALSO TO THE RELEASE OF THEIR FIRST NATIONAL CHART HIT WITH ‘THE THEME’. THIS EVIDENTLY LED TO THEM REMIXING A SUCCESSION OF HITS INCLUDING AMIRA’S ‘MY DESIRE’ (RE-RELEASED AT THE END OF 2000), ALL SAINT’S ‘BOOTY CALL’ RIGHT UP TO THE PRESENT DAY WITH MIXES FOR ARTISTS SUCH AS SISQO AND DESTINY’S CHILD TO NAME BUT A FEW.

THE DREEM TEEM’S EXPERIENCE BOTH MUSICALLY AND IN BROADCASTING SOON PAID OFF AND IN FEBRUARY ’98 THEY JOINED RANKS WITH KISS 100 FM WITH THREE SHOWS DISPLAYING THEIR UPFRONT STYLE MIXED WITH THEIR UNIQUE BANTER, ATTRACTING NOT ONLY A HUGE AUDIENCE FOLLOWING BUT ALSO CELEBRITIES INCLUDING WILL SMITH, SPIKE LEE AND IAN WRIGHT AMONGST MANY OTHERS.

EIGHTEEN MONTHS LATER THEY LANDED A FRIDAY NIGHT SPOT ON GALAXY FM, ALLOWING THEIR GROUND BREAKING AND INNOVATIVE STYLE TO REACH NATIONAL AIRWAVES. ALSO IN ’99 THEIR HIT COLLABORATION ‘BUDDY X’ WITH NENEH CHERRY REACHED NUMBER FIFTEEN IN THE CHARTS AND WAS UNDOUBTEDLY A HUGE ANTHEM FOR THAT YEAR.