Les Ford aka FORDAL did not discover electronic music so much as arrive at it fully formed. The foundation was laid long before any club or record, by a father who was a working saxophonist sharing stages with Jimi Hendrix and Rod Stewart, which means music in that house was never a hobby or a phase. It was simply there, in rehearsals and conversations and the particular way a musician listens to the world. That upbringing left a mark that is still audible today.
Growing up in the North East in the 1990s put him in rooms most people now talk about with reverence. Renaissance. Cream. The Arena in Middlesbrough. Watching Laurent…
