John 00 Fleming

John 00 Fleming was born in Worthing, West Sussex, in 1969. In his early twenties he was treated for lung cancer. He started out playing Goa trance before moving toward harder trance and eventually settling in the psychedelic trance he has been associated with since.

His influences run from early electronic acts such as Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream through to contemporaries like Astral Projection, Airwave and Trifonic. Early in his career he released on labels including Ministry of Sound, Deconstruction, Logic Records and 3 Beat Music, and played clubs such as Cream, Gatecrasher and Godskitchen before founding his own imprint.

He set up JOOF Recordings in 1998, its first release a collaboration with Russell Floorplay. The label went on to put out music by Airwave, John O'Callaghan, Anne Savage, Solar Fields and others, with releases such as L.S.G.'s Netherworld and Airwave's Parallel Lines picking up support from Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Above & Beyond and Paul Oakenfold.

The label has since branched out: JOOF V.2 launched in 2011, Gary Delaney and Daniel Lesden took over as A&Rs in 2015, and the following year the psy-trance wing was rebranded JOOF Mantra alongside a new offshoot, JOOF Aura, dedicated to deeper, progressive-house-leaning trance.

Fleming also hosts JOOF Radio, a monthly mix show broadcast on Digitally Imported that began life as Global Trance Grooves. One of his tracks, "The Winds of Change Are Blowing," became known online through its use in the viral "Freestyle Dance Teacher" meme.