Krafty Kuts: Moon Unit.

Krafty Kuts play 33 1/3 at Family on Thursday.

"There's only one thing that's better than DJing," begins DJ Krafty Kuts, one of the pioneers of the breakbeat music scene, "and we both know what that is."

Even down the phone line from the UK, I can hear Krafty Kuts loudly winking at the receiver as he bursts into spontaneous laughter. Krafty Kuts, real name Martin Reeves, and I are talking about music. Or to be more specific we are talking about music and sex. After a couple of minutes of chuckling and arguing in equal doses we both finally agree that Air's Moon Safari is the best CD ever invented to make passionate, ground-moving love to.

"If you leave the Moon Safari CD open next to the bed, and the lady slips it on, you just know you're going to get lucky."

Krafty Kuts knows all about getting lucky. His entry into the extremely competitive world of DJing was, he admits, the biggest fluke of his life. A seventeen-year-old Reeves entered a DJ competition having never been behind two turntables spinning at the same time.

"I didn't have any decks," says Reeves, "so I would practise alone in my room trying to mix a record over the top of a tape. The first time I ever got behind two turntables in my life was for the competition." Reeves didn't win the competition (his best friend did) but he did make it to the finals and got instantly seduced by a world that he hasn't been able to leave since. As his alter ego Krafty Kuts he has been at the forefront of groundbreaking breakbeats for the better part of a decade.

From his base in Brighton, Reeves has released a series of pioneering records with the backing of influential people like Fat Boy Slim and Adam Freeland and record labels like Ministry Of Sound.

Krafty Kuts has a very dedicated following, and each time he visits Australia is overwhelmed by the reaction. "Australian crowds are just crazy," says Reeves, before adding as an afterthought, "but crazy in a good way!" From a fairytale entry into the world of music, Reeves' life has been consumed by music to the extent that he now even dreams new songs. "I will make it up even if it's not there. I'm very passionate about my music. I'll still be DJing when I'm in my nursing home," jokes Reeves. "I'll get those old grannies out of their wheelchairs!"