Born into a musical family Nigel had been a lover of all types of music from a very young age.
He started learning how to play guitar at the tender age of 4 when he got a guitar as a present from his parents.
From there on he tried his hand at several different instruments but always going back to guitar especially in his teenage years when he fell in love with heavy metal, punk, grunge and hard rock.
Not long after he was introduced to the sounds of electronic music and was instantly hooked.
From there on he started building his vinyl collection, everything from goa & psytrance to techno, hard house, acid techno and acid trance and eventually buying his first set of technics 1210 and spent many hours every day learning how to master the art of mixing, and from there on progressed on to playing regular dj slots for a number of free party crews around Ireland.
In 2008 he was booked to play his first big club event for Audioheadz promotions and was instantly offered his first residency slot.
Since then he has been involved in the running and promotion of 3 mixed genre club events , held residency slots with Audioheadz, Underground Muzik, Shockabuku and now with his own record label Galactic Groove Records & his new techno events "Metronome" and has played for a number of big promotion nights up & down the country such as Galactic Groove, Subsystem, Earth Star, Sundown Gathering, Life Festival, Project Soy-Trance, Be Sound, Energy Collective, Pt Connection, SPUD, Townlands Carnival, Underground Vibes, Equinox, Oblivion, Hard Breed, Planet Love, Headliners, Elevate, Naughty South & Shockabuku to name a few & has already played alongside some of the biggest names in the psytrance, techno & hard dance scene such as Ajja, Avalon, Parasense, EVP, Reality Grid, Gaspard, Illegal Machines, Psymmetrix, Sensient Chris Liberator,Aaron Liberator, Mark EG, Fernanda Martines, Candy Cox, Eto & Gab, Malke, Du`Art, Ritzi Lee & many more.
He has released several tracks under his hard dance alias "Nigel NRG" on labels such as Boshed Hard, Renewable NRG, Digital Razor, CDR Hard, Boxed Digital, Digital Damage, Alien Technology and has had tracks selected for re release on VA compilations with LW Recordings.
Concentrating on his psytrance project "Digital Specie" & label "Galactic Groove Records" over the last few years has seen him play at some of the biggest dance festivals in the country & some highlights so far were playing on the psytrance stage a LIFE FESTIVAL 2014 & 2015 & Townlands Carnival 2015 where he played the closing set of the festival on the Digital FleaPit Stage where Galactic Groove Records and several of its acts were invited to perform as a label showcase.
Galactic Groove Records is an independent psychedelic trance label based in the south of Ireland, founded with the intent of pushing & promoting the psychedelic sound on the Emerald Isle & beyond.
Galactic Groove Records strive to promote & release high quality and original Psychedelic Trance music from some of the leading artists within the scene today & are dedicated to discovering & honing new talent.