Unknown to his mother, Apiento has the adaptable traits of a survivor in the increasingly perplexing world of the music industry. The fact that he weathered such changes with grace and emerged unscathed is tribute to his demeanor.
Despite his public persona as DJ/producer Apiento, Paul Byrne is a well-known backroom boy in the larger music industry. He is rarely bothered by flying underwear in Sainsbury's. Born and reared in south-east London, he experienced a golden age of the capital's history, with the rise of specialty import shops and pirate radio. DJ culture has always flourished in this city, long before the concept of a celebrity DJ was even conceived.
Without a clear strategy after graduating from high school, he hustled his way into a position with Dick O'Dell, the man who ran the left-field funk label Y in Bristol before starting Guerrilla Records and appointing Paul as his teenage assistant. During the heyday of British house and electronic music in the early 1990s, when Chemical Brothers, Underworld, X-Press 2 and Fire Island were all signed to the indie label with big ideas and tiny staff, he went to Junior Boys Own and worked alongside Terry Farley and Steve Hall.
After that, he temporarily collaborated with Dave "Switch" Taylor at Yes Productions to create beats for M.I.A. He also launched the Test Pressing blog, which is currently on the verge of becoming a full-time endeavor..

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