Slipmatt is easily the most over-rated DJ the planet has ever seen.

His Happy Hardcore set's in his prime were at times well mixed, yes, but incredibly boring and un-imaginative.

The godfather of Hardcore? don't make me laugh. People such as Scott Brown would be knotting himself with laugher.

His productions were miles better than his DJing and DJ sets. Some really good tunes from him, credit where credit is due.

I don't like new UK Hardcore. I hate it infact, but credit where credit is due to guys like Hixxy, Brisk, Styles, Scott Brown etc they stuck at it through the bad times and it's paid off for them. Slipmatt walks, comes back 6 or 7 years later and starts making money again with prime time slots. No thanks.

All in my opinion, of course.

Slipmatt may have left the new hardcore scene but his old skool sets are brilliant. If you want to get a dose of the full range of old skool rave tracks (from the housier end through to early D&B) then check out one of his compliations or a live set. When Radio 1's One in the Jungle did an old skool show they got Slipmatt to do the mix. Need I say more!

some people may slag slipmattt for deserting the " scene" but in the time in 93 when the hardcore scene was splitting between drum & bass and hardcore, slipmatt was playing the tunes that mattered! He kept the harcore vibe going! As for his mixing,it was tight and never overcomplicated with few mistakes!

I don't think the comments above are at all justified really...Slipmatt produced many of the hardcore scene's biggest tracks through remixes in 1994 and 1995 - Take Me Away, Incredible Bass, In Effect, Crowd Control...and he at least tried to do something fresh and bring breaks back in when things became stale in 1997-1998. So he lost interest and dropped out of hardcore - fair enough surely, I mean why do something you don't have a passion for any more? Its a style of music, not a religion. And his sets were excellent, his tune selection was spot on! I'd say his "hardcore godfather" title IS pretty much justified.

And he also got bored of hardcore because it abandoned breakbeats and because let's face it, it became music for 15 year old kids and he was old enough to be their father.