From Chicago's NW Side, Rick Allen...aka...RRKS was raised on old school Chicago house music. At an early age his weekend’s were spent in juice bar's or house parties listening to the likes of Depeche Mode, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, New Order & The Cure just to name a few. He started re-mixing and making tracks in the late 1980's with some of his father's old gear that was lying around in the basement.
Ultimately it was the classic mix shows on WBMX & WGCI that made electronic music a permanent fixture in his life. For many years Chicago's infamous Gramaphone records was his second home and allowed him to build friendships with some of the world's best DJ's & Producers. What was originally a hobby quickly became an obsession and in 1992 he scraped up enough money to buy his first drum machine, the Kawai R-100 - the rest is history.Finally, after more than a decade of basement tracks, mixtapes and music production evolution - the Internet has made it possible to share his musical vision.
