The pair soon became regulars at Heaven, the London club where jungle would eventually be born from the clashing of breakbeats and techno. They learned to DJ and involved themselves in the scene, eventually crossing paths with a young aspiring artist named Goldie. After Kemistry passed away in a car accident in , Storm continued to strike it out as the rare female role model in a male-dominated scene.
My name is Torsten Schmidt and I had the privilege to be amongst the people that founded the thing called the Red Bull Music Academy, in a different millennium. Hello everyone. But what was lovely about that was we met two of our heroes, me and Kemi⦠We met John Acquaviva and Richie Hawtin , and that was fantastic, so thank you for that.
Kemi was my DJ partner. We were friends for years before we started to become DJs. I had moved away to train in Oxford to become a therapeutic radiographer and she moved to Sheffield, [in the] north of England. Her boyfriend had been employed, he was one of the first graphic design companies that ever was set up in Sheffield, and she went up there and she was doing make-up artist work, and then she worked for a guy called Jarvis Cocker.
She worked for this label, FON Records. She happened to move down to London about two weeks before I qualified, and I needed a place to stay, so I could go and do some work placements. So, now my life was full of I suppose we called it hardcore then. So, I became the driver for her and her big crew from Red or Dead , the shoe shop, where she used to work]. The guy there, who was the manager, he would decide every week where they would go. Then, I think it was , and the manager of Red or Dead had heard that there were these two DJs Fabio and Grooverider in this club called Heaven that had been bought from the upstairs room to downstairs.
Rage was basically a gay club, yeah absolutely. I think it was Kit Kat Club before. That was known as a gay club, and the guy running it was a gay guy, yeah, absolutely. So, off we went, and we heard Carl Cox and Paul Oakenfold and lots of big people that night.
