Scartip

Scartip, aka Michael Beardsley, began his love for the UK underground sound at the tender age of 9 years old after pinching an old-skool, hardcore Vibalite cassette tape off his elder sister’s boyfriend. Since then, the enthusiasm and passion for the music encouraged Scartip to become immersed in music production.

The genre of choice being Drum & Bass, Scartip began his long plight to become a producer at Confetti College in Nottingham back in 2007. Flirting with Cubase, Reason and Pro-tools he finally locked on to Logic and has since participated on various courses at ‘Point Blank online’ to further sharpen his production skills.

Scartip has been DJ-ing for 7 years and has played at numerous established nights in the East Midlands including Nottingham’s biggest Drum & Bass event ‘Detonate.’ He has supported the likes of Foreign Concept, Taxman, Emperor, Crissy Criss, Mutated Forms, Nympho, Octane & DLR, Chromatic, Dub Motion and has had the honourary pleasure of warming the crowd up for Andy C.

The 24 year old currently runs his own night in Derby called ‘Basstrap’ which boasts established headliners within the scene every month and has a regular slot on pirate radio known as Rogue FM based in Nottingham.