More about the founders & the team
YorKee (Owner)
YorKee is the owner of NDC radio and one of the 3 founder members of the "Northern Dance Collective"
YorKee has been playing dance music since 1988, he's an old school raver from back in the day when acid house first hit the UK clubs. With a massive back catalogue of old school classics he's always got a nugget ready to drop into one of his sets.
Kempton (Station Manager & Partner )
Kempton is also one of the 3 founder members of NDC.
As well as being an accomplished DJ and record producer Kempton is NDC radio stations manager. Kempton has been playing since the 1990s and also has a massive back catalogue of house classics he knows intimately.
A master of his craft his skills on the decks are a feat to behold and a pleasure to hear.
Richy D (Non Exec Director)
Richy D is the 3rd founder member of "NDC". Like Kempton Richy D has been playing dance music since the 1990s and was a regular booking in the clubs around the UK for many years. Richy plays many genres of dance music but he has a particular love of Soulful house and Garage.
Skillful, seamless mixing comes as standard with Richy D, yet another master of his craft.
Karen Scargall (Deckodance - Non Exe Director)
Gowing up and going out when hip hop and acid house was taking the world by storm, this is where Karen’s journey in the industry began.
Music was her passion and during the 90s Karen discovered progressive house music. Karen first learned how to mix on Technics 1210s and her love for discovering new music was always paramount.
Going clubbing was all about being educated in music. Hearing fresh tunes and going over to Eastern Bloc twice a week to get those tracks.
Fast forward 15 years, caring for her children, Karen then started to go out to gigs again but they were reunions, all old tunes and it left her feeling uninspired after a while.
In 2017 Karen checked out a Greg Wilson mix and straight away was blown away by the fresh funky sound and once again she felt that “oh my goodness, what is this track moment “?
Karen co-ran Downtown Disco events in 2018/ 2019 inviting incredible artists such as Dr Packer, Late Nite Tuff Guy, Babert, Michael Gray, Ladies on Mars and Fingerman to name just a few for the lineups.
At the end of 2018, Karen went on to co-manage Downtown Disco Agency representing artists such as Michael Gray, Barry & Gibbs, Dave Leatherman, HP Vince, Re-Tide, Babert, Tropical Disco, Da Lukas, Funkatomic, Fingerman, C Da Afro and Ladies on Mars.
In 2020 Karen joined forces with Lenny Fontana who has been such an inspiration and taught Karen so much about life in the music industry.
Karen aka Miss Chief, works at Karmic Power Records with Lenny & Manuel helping to put together the incredible ‘True House Stories’ shows which have become so popular, Karmic Power Records are now rolling out ’True House Stories Takeover’ shows worldwide to stations such as FG Chic, NDC, My House FM, The Works Experience, RUAR, Real House Radio, Red Army TV and Opentempo. These shows are 2 hour sets with Lenny plus his previous ’True House Stories’ guest mixes.
Karen bought her controller in 2017 and is still just doing DJing for fun. She has recently done guest mixes for Maison De House, Club Lorenzo, Only Good Vibes, FG Chic, FourPlay, NDC, Radio Warrington to name just a few.
Karen is also assisting with International Takeover shows on NDC such as Stateside, The Italian Job plus many more. Karen is a great addition to the NDC team.
YorKee, Kempton & Richy D founded the Northern Dance Collective in 2016 after many years of playing on the DJ circuit. Then in 2018 the guys decided it was time to share their passion for dance music over the airwaves so NDC Radio was born. The guys at NDC have been playing up and down the country in pubs, clubs and at dance music festivals for over 35 years now. They were joined in 2019 by many other quality DJ's including, Rach K, Dave Barrett & Rob Impact. Here at NDC Radio we actively encourage & welcome up and coming DJs and producers and regularly offer free guest spots on the station to new comers of all abilities. We also produce our own dance music and release this through the NDC radio label "Outer Limits"
Our Resident DJ's - YorKee - Kempton - Richy D - Dave Barrett - DJ Paul Rowe - Stevie Lydon - WoodyR8 - ScudderNation - Gary Williams - Ethan Lee - Sam Shelley - Sean Benton - DJ Moll - PeeWee - Daddy Mac - Graham Gee - Chris Lambert - Tree Cooper - Paul Parsons - Plus guest DJs every week !