After being begrudgingly dragged along by a his school mates to an underground
Jungle & Hardcore club called “Gravity” back in 1996, fake ID in hand and witnessing
the amazing resident DJ Menis on the decks, Olly was inspired and hooked. Having
been staunchly into Rap music only since 1988, this was a strange but welcome
change in perspective, the ethos of PLUR and the energetic vibe felt like home..
After realising his interest he began the process of hassling his best mate from
primary school, Rob (Boy-D) who was already a great deejay and had 2 x 1200’s in
his bedroom, he jumped on at every opportunity. Much to the frustration of Rob
having to listen to all the train wrecks haha! To save the friendship, he scraped up
enough cash to buy 2 omnitronic decks and a 2 channel numark mixer & started
learning to mix in his bedroom in the summer of 1997.

He got his first club booking in 1999 at a club night called Euphoria (XS Promotions/
DJ Freestyle) back in Perth, Western Australia and launched his own Promotion
company called Ruff Knite Productions along with best mate Hilton Shaw (Magnetic),
who he now runs 459 record with to this day. RKP was one of the main promotion
teams in Perth within hardcore, jungle & DnB from 2001-2006 hosting many events
in clubs and pubs and also putting on 2-3 All-Ages Raves a year in warehouses in
and around the city.

Being born in England but moved to Australia at 4 years old, he moved back to the
UK in 2012 to spend some time with his Grandparents. After starting his music
production journey in 2005 with some friends in their home studio’s as a supplement
to deejaying, once back in London he started to properly focus on music production
and gained his first release on Spandangle Selection records in 2022 with a 2
remixes and then a 4 track EP of original work, big Simon Spangle8 for the
opportunity!

Olly then launched his own imprint called Sample Culture London in 2023 with a 3
track EP of 93 style jungle tekno LTD to 100 white labels. The label now mainly
releases LTD lathe cuts from himself and other Artists. Sample Culture London now
has 30 releases under it’s belt and is growing each year. Olly had a weekly show for
2 years on London based pirate Infrared.FM and has been playing sporadic sets on
Energy 1058 and various other pirate and legal stations with around London and the
UK and has now found a regular, weekly home at Eruption.

Vers-e-tyle’s style is strongly rooted in the sounds of 1991-1995 Jungle, Hardcore
and Jungle Tekno. Usually drawing on both newly released records and forthcoming
dubs along with some old records from that era during his deejay sets.