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I'm Motley, I chose that name because it means "an incongruous mixture" or simply a "contrast without duality" (think yin yang). My musical style has been mixed, I have always felt like an outsider, outside of cultural norms, but still part of something (mixed feelings) and heck even my skin is mixed, black and white, 'Motley' is who I have come to identify as. For the data hungry, I was born in Salford (UK) and raised amongst an Anglo Caribbean culture. My childhood consisted of council estate housing, domestic violence, racism, child abuse, hip hop, soul food, love, reggae, crime, substance and alcohol use and family. I was lucky enough to have a few musical family members, my absent bio-father was an amateur DJ/Actor/Singer my abusive step-father was an avid collector of underground reggae vinyl and would play late night, smoke-filled house parties every weekend, a cousin of mine also DJ'd and the whole family loved music. I started DJing from the time I was 16, started making