Roni started on the path of musical production when he was thrown out of school aged 16, but music had always been a part of his life. Roni was born and grew up at 'the top of the hill' a.k.a. St Andrew's, Bristol.

From the bottom of this hill came the sounds of the 70s blues parties and sound-systems - the beat infected Roni’s bones. So, after being expelled he walked straight into Sefton Park basement project, which allowed youngsters to try their hand on the decks, the mixing desk, drum machines and samplers. Here he learned the basics and his brother’s comprehensive collection of Studio One records gave him material to work with. After setting up a home studio and buying a sampler, a musical master of production was in the making.

Meeting up with Krust in the early 90s brought two musically compatible minds together, they faced the same dilemma of having no outlet for their music they put their energies into their own label. Roni set up WTP (Where’s The Party At?). From that Full Cycle and Dope Dragon were established in 1993.

Bryan Gee was an early admirer, holding on to their tapes whilst at work at Rhythm King Records. When in 1994 he set up V Recordings. Krust, Roni and Die providing the two first releases. �We looked at V as the strong brother label, with Full Cycle the sister following in its footsteps... Over the years the two gelled, people associated V and Full Cycle together. Through putting a lot of music out on these two labels we then got noticed by another label, a major - Talkin’ Loud.�

Roni Size and Full Cycle were one of the first to bring the jazzy elements into the dark jungle of the early 90s. �We were using more melodies, more jazz orientated loops – sounds that in London only people like Bukem, or maybe Fabio or Peshay were using. But they were still using fat Amen breaks where we were just using toned down breaks.� ’It’s a Jazz Thing’ in 1994 sparked the interest of fellow experimental types James Lavelle and the Mo’ Wax posse, as well as Gilles Peterson who signed Roni Size to his Talkin’ Loud imprint.

In the meantime, Full Cycle released the compilation album Music Box (a fifty/fifty collaboration with Die) in 1996. Their varying personal influences helped create the unique Full Cycle sound.“Suv was more dub, Die was more jazz, I was more ragga or bashment and Krust was definitely more hip-hop but we all had elements of soul and break beat in us, we all had graffiti stains on our hands, we all rode BMXs or skateboards. We all came from the same school - the school of the 80s and 90s. We’ve always tried to incorporate all those elements into our music. If we could put the sounds from spray can, the sounds from skateboards scraping along the road and of people falling off BMXs, in one record we would.�

The following year the crew, now officially called ‘Reprazent’, took the world by storm with their New Forms LP, their first release for Talkin Loud. Winning the Mercury Music Prize boosted their international status and the world awoke to the sound of Roni Size and Full Cycle. The singles from the album all featured the unmistakable vocals of Onalee whose call for the music in ‘Brown Paper Bag’ is a signal all ravers still respond to. ‘Heroes’ and ‘Watching Windows’ are also classics. The album went platinum, the Reprazent live show toured the world to rapturous reception. Surprised by their new massive fan base Roni and the boys returned to the studio.

In 1999, Roni and Die produced the Breakbeat Era album featuring vocals from Lennie Laws which was picked up by XL Recordings for worldwide release. In July the following year theThrough The Eyes compilation was released on Full Cycle, showcasing tracks from newcomers to the stable: D-Product and Surge.

Later that year came the long awaited second project from Reprazent. In the Mode delivered a variety of tracks, some featuring vocals from Dynamite, Onalee and some from collaborations with hip-hop legend Method Man, Rage Against The Machine’s Zac de la Rocha and beat-box master Rahzel. Once again Reprazent hit the road for months

In his spare time, Roni started to work outside his camp. He has produced tracks for such diverse artists as Redman, Sonique, Beverley Knight, Fallacy and Cypress Hill and written tracks for numerous film scores including the Avengers and Blade 2. Many of his remixes have also become classics, for artists as diverse as U2 and Basement Jaxx.

He also produced Touching Down - released in October 2002. This, his first truly solo album, was 16 brand new dancefloor smashers mixed into one hour’s set. and was also his first artist album for his own Full Cycle label. It included more classics such as the massive Snapshot and Sound Advice.

In 2001 Roni met a young female MC named Tali whilst on tour in Melbourne, and immedietely seeing her potential invited her to come to Bristol to make an album. 6 months later she landed from New Zealand and Roni began producing what became the critically acclaimed ‘Lyric On My Lip’ album released late 2003, which included Full Cycle’s first top 40 hit, with the single ‘Lyric on My Lip’ in spring 2004.

In 2004 Roni put together a new live show. It featured some of his new tunes from forthcoming Return To V and remixes of old classics like ‘Brown Paper Bag’ and ‘Breakbeat Era’. The “Roni Size & Tali ‘in the mix’ Tour� was hosted by Dynamite MC and Sweet P. With extra vocals from Hollie Grant and Zaniah the new generation of Full Cyclists were on show, all backed by the musicians who also feature on the recordings – effectively the Full Cycle house band - UV Ray on drums, Si John on bass and D-Product on keys/samples. The ‘In The Mix’ tour travelled all over the UK and Europe to sell out audiences and great reviews.

Roni’s latest release Return to V shows his production skills never fail to vary and adapt. The album features numerous vocalists, some old friends and some new friends. Both a nod to the past and recognition of the pivotal role in his career played by Bryan G and V Recordings, it is also pointer to the direction and sound that Roni Size fans can expect in the future. A result of two years hard work, it is arguably the most complete and satisfying work yet from Mr Roni Size.