DJ, producer & community musician active in Limerick City, Ireland.
Co-founder of Community Skratch.
Founder of Unscene Music.
FKA Naive Ted, Deviant.
Leader of Zkellies ensemble.
Produced for/collaborated with/remixed God Knows, windings, Post Punk Podge, FIXITY, Ceara Conway, Murli, Jinx Lennon, Morning Veils, Hazey Haze, Citrus Fresh, Same D4ence, Working Class Records, NJPW Bullet Club & more.
PRESS
‘…genius… an outrageously talented DJ & tireless activist in his local community… a producer choc full of ideas” (Cian O’ Ciobhain, Nialler9, 2024)
“A national treasure” (The Wire 2024)
“Naive Ted’s Feile na Greine set was a masterpiece of artistic expression… a testament to the transformative power of music…” (Rory Sweeney, Nialler9, 2023)
“No one does it like Naive Ted” (The Quietus, 2022)
“one of the island’s most singular talents… chaotic but constantly exhilarating… have a dig through his formidable back catalog. We promise you, it’s all pure cracked and pure class” (The Thin Air, 2019)
“From co-founding Galway’s Community Skratch games, being a member of the Vince Mack Mahon scratch super-group to making some seriously innovative music… a cornerstone of Irish hip-hop and electronica….” (Rabble, 2017)
“….positively bananas, as old-school skratchology meets a truly eclectic range of samples before being thrown, full-force, at Steve Reich-esque experimentation and being thoroughly deconstructed accordingly” (Village, 2016)