Drunken Monkey was born on the radio waves of WRUV, Burlington, in 1993. Bringing a mix of Hip-Hop and Dancehall Reggae to the Vermont airwaves was the mission and it was here that the skills of the trade started to be formed. Running inna radio stylee until 1996, Drunken Monkey stayed on top of the underground Hip-Hop movement and Dancehall vibrations for those four critical years. Occasional specialty shows gave him a chance to flex his growing rare groove and classic funk selections as well.

1996 saw the first expansion into new styles as the Jungle movement caught his ear and he began his on-going love for the Junglist sounds. From 1997 onward Drum & Bass and Jungle dominated the Drunken Monkey sound with the obvious roots in Hip-Hop and Reggae keeping the foundation. After a brief stint in Washington D.C. working at 12" Dance Records in Dupont Circle and DJing a formative Jungle weekly at D.C.'s State of The Union, Drunken Monkey made the move to the Bay Area in 1998.

From 1998 to the present date Drunken Monkey has been laying down every type of phat groove for folks from house parties to art openings to clubs to raves. Also in the mix was a year on San Francisco's infamous KUSF radio station. The Drunken Monkey style has appropriately branched out into many different genres of underground dance and electronic music: Hip-Hop (old and new), Reggae (old and new), Jungle/Drum & Bass, Trip-Hop/Down Tempo, House, Breakbeat, Rare Groove/Funk/Soul, and UK's 2-step/Broken Beat styles.

2001 started a new chapter with his job at San Francisco's historic BPM Records (an epicenter of the Bay Area's DJ/club scene) and the beginning of Drunken Monkey's "Mixology" series of mix CD's that include: "The Definitive Steppa" (BPM's all time top selling 2-Step mix), "Smoked Out Sounds" (a unique Drum & Bass/Down Tempo blend), and "The Broken Lounge" (capturing the atmospheric and funkier side of the Breakbeat genre). The series continued in 2004 with the 2nd volume of Drum n Bass' highest quality tunes, "The Music Tells The Story" (includes 3 original Drunken Monkey productions), and in 2006 he finally debuted a smoking mix of modern House music, "Welcome to the Monkey House", which also features 3 original DM songs.

2003 stood out as a great year for our plucky DJ/producer. San Francisco's Sunburn Records released Drunken Monkey's debut song, "Gratification" with a Gavin Hardkiss remix on the B-side. This melodic house track grooves and uplifts. Check out the Sunburn website to get this future classic. Adding to the sweetness was the instant re-release on England's premiere house label, Hooj Choons, later that summer!

Flash forward to 2005 with the release of 2 collaborations with Gavin Hardkiss on his latest album, "Love Won Another" on 8th Dimension Records. "Flower Girl" was a driving dance-pop remake of the Sweet Leaf Boys Rock n Roll classic, "Flower Girls" while "We Come from Far" was a co-written album opener both featuring the talents of our own Splintered Tree on vocals and instrumentation. The "Flower Girl" 12" single hit shelves in early 2006 with remixes and an accompanying music video!!!

Being a working DJ and producer is the complete picture for Drunken Monkey. The few commercial releases to this date are just the beginning with an artist debut album on the plate, "Dynamite Soul Projections", and a massive back catalog of material yet to be heard except at local SF, Bay Area clubs. On a smaller, local scale there have already been two compilations offered through Splintered Tree Records chock full of original Drunken Monkey titles. These compilations entitled "Live Cultures" (2001, 2002) represent the year's work retrospectively from the Petri Disk Studios in Oakland, California.

Downtempo, Hip-Hop, 2-Step, Drum & Bass, Breakbeat, and House songs have all come out in the last 5 years of production and leaves the horizon wide open for future directions of musical expansion. On this note, collaborations have always been a major component of the Drunken Monkey production style with promising projects here and on the way with Gavin Hardkiss, San Francisco's up-and-coming producer Ean Golden, and the live-DJ performance, The Petri Disk Showcase, which culminates in the as-yet-unreleased 3rd volume of the "Live Cultures" series. And fresh off the production floor comes a brand new album produced entirely by Drunken Monkey at his own Petri Disk Studios. This latest release is from a brand new Bay Area Hip Hop group called Odd Man Out who bring their own unique brand of conscious/activist Hip Hop to the multi-flavored beats provided by Drunken Monkey. A massive project 5 years in the making has finally come to fruition. Check it out at www.myspace.com/outsidersperspective