welcome
James Gerrard Saunders
other wise known as Jimmy was born October 22nd, 1967, in a small town just outside of Kilkenny City Ireland.
Jimmy grew up in a small community where traditional music was as common as rock and roll.
Learning to play guitar at just 9 years old Jimmy moved to Kilkenny at 13 and in his early years played pop and jazz riffs.
At 21 years of age, he spent his first year in Australia where he was introduced to electronic dance music for the very first time.
At 23/24 Jimmy emigrated to the UK and within a brief time in a band in London he become one of the DJs on the London House music scenes alone with Drum’n Bass as London thrived on Vinyl Mania along with Chicago house music as the rave scene dived right into the next century.
In the late 90’s Jimmy had established himself starting off from Paradise Lost Watford to AWOL Islington to Astoria Tottenham Court Rd London.
House Radio London along with Drum and Bass Stations were picking up on Jimmy otherwise known as DJ Steptoe, then in 2000’s DJ J ANGEL. Also see –
Traveling with Uptown Records London to Amsterdam 1997 to Australia again only this time to DJ in Darling Harbour and the Sugar Reef Kings Cross Sydney NSW.
By the time JIMMY SAUNDERS was in his mid-30’s he had accomplished the club market in Spain London and beyond.
Now the time had come to produce his own music and from his experience he did not disappoint.
At first JIMMY SAUNDERS released his own singles and was moving so fast by three years he had already released his first house and breakbeat album (THIS IS NO MYSTERY) under the label Mystery Records.
A great succession followed with singles following in jazz fusion and House with Jimmy playing acoustic guitar, lead guitar piano and not to mention his own beat creation along with his pads and his ability to create atmospheric sounds and jazz cords with every instrumental workstation he could find.
JIMMY SAUNDERS is an incredibly unique person as he worked alongside people within every jondra and in 20014 released his most famous work to date, his fifth album (SECRETS IN HOUSE).
It was also the year Jimmy set up his own independent label ONEBASS9 Recordings
Jimmy has played many radio stations within London and Spain and has slowly retired after almost 30 years DJing the underground scenes of London and beyond and after a great spell within the Dance and Club Industry and after returning to his native Ireland has been described as a man that left and completed his quest to undoubtedly become one of the greatest people within his field.
After covid hit he has been away from producing for the past five years and now at 54 was asked to produce records again for clubs and such and intends to bring out an album by the end of the summer this year.
You can catch JIMMY SAUNDERS on his latest podcasts right here just starting this month on his experiences.
His dedication to his music is second to known and his experiences will follow him to produce as he does with perfection.
JIMMY SAUNDERS own words:
“I was lucky enough to jump into the deep end and met amazing people along the way, some famous and some not so, but offered just as much with ability.
You are what you create and by creating you open the imagination to your world and what you were made to do.
I have decided to create just a little more, but I guess without the DJing as I played my part well.
I hope this site will expand your mind when you land on it and enjoy.”
Jimmy has also written a book dedicated to his late mother Annie Saunders who passes away June 2021 of which the book is called
We have been advised that there will be new music vidoes by Jimmy and guests along with updates on this site so you can subscribe and follow on social media with JIMMY SAUNDERS direct.
