Ricky Chopra

Ricky started buying music in the early 80s and started to DJ professionally in 1987. He started out as a Hip Hop DJ, cutting scratching, back-to-backing and smashing phat hip hop beats. His first breakthrough came when we blagged at slot on the now infamous London pirate radio station Peoples FM. Acid House had arrived in the UK he soon started to play at more and more raves in-and-around London. Under the pseudonym DJ Chops, Ricky started producing tunes. In 1992, he released a reggae-infused remix of Desmond Dekker ‘Israelites’ which reached No. 36 in the UK national charts. He later left London and headed to Sheffield to get a degree. No sooner than he got there, he became the resident for at a new night called Gatecrasher, which soon became one of the first global superclubs. Ricky spent ten comfortable years in Sheffield DJing for Gatecrasher. Gatecrasher burned down in 2007 and Ricky started a night with his celebrity girlfriend called ‘Hang The DJ’. HTDJ was a place where they could explore their freaky experimental side. Within a year, HTDJ was recognised as a groundbreaking night, and Ricky was back on the road but playing the most random events like Burning Man and Full moon parties in Thailand. In 2010 Ricky decided to go it alone and he started the Spectrum City website. Ricky has uploaded over 100 mixes to Spectrum City.