Ambient DJ and underground musician Mixmaster Morris was born in Brighton but started his DJ career in 1985 with his "Mongolian Hip Hop Show" on pirate radio in London. Morris began releasing material as Irresistible Force in 1987 and became involved with the emerging UK acid house scene, working with acts such as The Shamen, The Orb, Spiritualized,Coldcut and System 7. Morris toured with the Shamen for two to three years until the tragic accidental death of bass player Will Sinott
In 1990 he made what is widely regarded as the first chillout compilation, Give Peace a Dance 3 for the group Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), followed by the series Chillout or Die for Rising High. The Morning After became his first major-label mix album, followed by Abstract Funk Theory for Obsessive. His most recent mix (2003) is God Bless the Chilled for Return to the Source. He has performed countless remixes since 1985, one of the most celebrated being Coldcut's "Autumn Leaves" which regularly tops polls of chillout classics.
In the early 1990s he played a lot of pure ambient music, including Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Deuter and Conrad Schnitzler, as well as emerging styles of ambient house and ambient techno (see the ambient music article). His key residencies at this time were alongside the Detroit masters at Lost, Megatripolis the original festival-in-a-club, crusty capital Megadog and Tribal Gathering where he played alongside Aphex Twin
Throughout the 1990s he wrote extensively about electronic music for New Musical Express, Mixmag, i-D Magazine. He was resident on Kiss FM for several years, but nowadays can be heard on Solid Steel, the Ninja Tune syndicated radio show. He made his movie debut in the cult film 'Modulations' (Caipirinha Films), but his music can be heard in a number of others and many TV shows.
Touring in Japan and USA allowed him to build a huge jazz collection and he started mixing jazz and hip hop instrumentals into his sets, leading to a residency at Stealth at the Blue Note. As of 2003 he plays often with Jazzanova, 4 Hero, Compost Records, Cinematic Orchestra and other nu-jazz artists. Over the years he has played in over 50 countries at myriad clubs and raves, particularly outdoor festivals like the Full Moon party in the Mojave Desert, [Big Chill]],Glastonbury Festival and Berlin's Love Parade. He also ran very successful downtempo night Nubient for 3 years in Brixton
In 1998 he joined the UK's Ninja Tune record label and multimedia collective, with whom he tours as a DJ and continues to release new material. 1999 saw him win 'Best Ambient DJ' at the Ibiza DJ Awards, and play at most of Ibiza's famous chillout bars like Cafe del Mar,Cafe Mambo. Kumharas, Villa Mercedes, Las Dalias. Morris became friends with Ibiza chillout artists like Rob da Bank, Chirs Coco,Pathaan, Lenny Ibizarre. Nowadays Morris. appears in many lists of the worlds top DJs including the Ministry of Sound book and the recent DJs by Lopez
