Liverpool was never known for its MC's but there is one MC that has made his mark in Liverpool and the Northwest from early on. Born in London and raised in Toxteth, Liverpool a place more famous for the Toxteth riots than for its underground music. MC S.A.S formerly known as Curtis Holligan was heavily influenced by the thriving music scene in his own area of L8 where he grew up hearing stories of the underground dance hall parties that were known as the blue's back in the early 80's -90's from an early age these stories fueled his interest in music.

"It was any type of music in those days but it still had to have an edge I was known for singing and dancing as a child."

In the mid 80's Liverpool was a changing city not only in the industrial sector but also in the club scene which by now was taking the city by storm with Acid house and parties were taking place all over the city's dock lands area.

"I was still too young to go to the raves but I never let it stop me from getting hold of the tapes, I was fascinated by the new sounds and from that point I was hooked by digital music. I was 8-9 years old and I remember I would record the local pirate radio station TCR on to Tdk 90's tapes and then re-record my favorites on to the second tape deck to make my own mix tapes. I used to collect flyers and tapes off the older people around me and started writing songs. I was obsessed with music and music was all around me from break dancing in Liverpool city centre on Linoleum kitchen flooring to the Liverpool carnival which used to take place 5 minutes away every year for a two day festival. A lot of the kids from the area including me would sneak out during the night and go back to the carnival just to listen and hear the music so loud also to see what it was like after hours"

He started buying records in the 90's and venturing out into Liverpool's club scene buying tunes from Unity Records which Jungle/Jungle teckno section was run by the man himself Futurebound.

"The main clubs for me then were The Hard Dock Café and The Coconut Grove where I used to watch Grooverider, Easy d Dougal and Stu Allen play. I started out wanting to DJ at first but that changed as I could not mix back then so I moved on to MC' ing. I found it hard to get things going because there was not much going on in Liverpool at the time I decided to make my move."

The underground club scene had been crushed in a lot of ways by the police for good and bad reasons so the platform was no longer there and would not be back in Liverpool for a while. Then came the re-emergence of the underground club scene in 1999 and with it came `Drum and Bass' .

"I got my first break at one of the first D'n'B nights in Liverpool called Blade Runners in La Bateau; playing alongside Kemistry and Storm I used to go to the blue note and loved it down there so it meant a lot to play with them on my first gig and then the legendary X run by head honcho of Viper Recordings Futurebound."

SAS then got into production working under a group name of M.A.S.S who had several releases on Sophonic Records based in Liverpool and Digital Rythzms. He then moved on to Austria where he held several residencies in Vienna at Sprawl, Morphed, Main frame and Sprawl.

Recently he has been working on his forthcoming EP named `Picture This' due for download later this year and has been working with Viper Recordings in Late 2009-2010 on the Acts Of Mad Men tour in the UK. Whilst also working with F.o.E. (a live Dub/DnB band based in Liverpool) on their new cross over album due out later this year or early 2011. Creamfields, Knowledge Mag, Viper Recordings and Chibuku have called on his unique flow over the last couple of years and were the voice of www.viperrecordings.co.uk sound clip intro for their older website.

This is one MC on a mission who knows how to smash a party to bits...

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