1990–92: Snowboarding, early DJing

While living in Colorado in the early 1990s Blakley worked as a professional snowboarder.^[2] According to Blakley, "When I first moved out here, there weren't many people making much money off snowboarding. Barfoot was paying me $300 a month, and that was cool back then." The year he moved to Colorado the company Division-23 Snowboards was started by a former Barfoot executive, and Blakley switched his sponsorship to the new company. He was given his first pro-model snowboard, and within two years was supporting himself entirely through snowboarding.^[1] Blakley has been involved with film as well, and in 1993 he both co-edited and produced the snowboarding documentary Seventh Year.^[3]

While snowboarding Blakley traveled worldwide, including Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Canada. In 1991 he attended his first rave while on a trip to Vancouver, British Columbia, and afterwards began attending every rave he could around Denver, Colorado. According to Blakley, he had first developed an interest in the rave scene after friends in New York told him about DJ Frankie Bones's Storm raves in Brooklyn.^[1] He quickly developed an interest in deejaying himself,^[2] buying his first turntables and learning to mix hardcore techno. He also bought a crate of records at a record store in Los Angeles, recollecting that "I didn't even know what the hell I was buying. I have a stack of shitty old house records because I didn't know what they were. All I wanted was the hard techno stuff, breakbeat techno, and I picked up anything that looked cool."^[1]

While continuing to snowboard to support himself, in 1992 Blakley adopted the alias DJ Fury and began performing in the hardcore techno and^[1] U.K. breakbeat scene around Denver.^[2] His very first live performance was at a small venue on Santa Fe street in Denver. The event was one of the few times that DJ Derrick Daisey, or Vitamin D, played in the city. Daisey and Blakley formed a "casual partnership," and together they went on to release a couple of mix tapes together, as well as the DJ mix CD Vitamin D vs. Fury.^[1] By 1993 hardcore techno began evolving into the genre jungle, with Blakley adopting the style.^[2]

1993–99: Rave promotions

Using funds he'd collected from snowboarding, in the early 1990s Blakley began working as a rave promoter in Denver and Boulder, Colorado.^[1][2] He founded LowerWorld Productions, his own production company, and soon began working with both Jason Bills and Come Together Productions on rave events. The team had a number of successful event series, notably the Skylab series. They also put on the 1994 Sands of Time event, which was broken up early by the Denver Police Department. According to Blakley about the event, "I had just gotten my board royalties, a check from Division-23 for $9,000, and I lost it all that night. It took me years to recover." Despite the setback, he continued to work with Jason Bills and they kept the Skylab events running consistently in Denver for years, with the series growing to become one of the largest regular raves in the city.^[1] He also started working with Eric Kozak, also known as DJ D.ecco, and began putting on the successful Rewind and Reload drum and bass raves in Colorado.^[4]

Blakley co-founded the Rewind series of events in 1995. Catering only to jungle music and operated by Blakley's LowerWorld, Rewind helped Blakley gain national exposure as a DJ.^[2] He soon began to focus less on snowboarding, and after moving his sponsorship from the now defunct Division-23 to Ignition Snowboards, began devoting himself entirely to music and music promotion. He soon had resident DJ positions with Together and LowerWorld in Denver, and was traveling to gigs around the country.^[1] During his touring he continued operating monthly events (now called Reload) in Denver.^[2]

2000s: Breakdown series

Rewind and Reload led to Blakley and Eric Kozak being recruited in the summer of 1998 to found and operate Breakdown, a drum-and-bass-themed Thursday club night at The Snake Pit. As well as local DJs, Kozak and Blakley brought in well-known artists such as Andy C, Ed Rush and Dieselboy.^[4]

According to Denver Westword, "Breakdown became the first 21-and-over all-drum-and-bass night in Denver. What began as just another weekly theme night soon morphed into a mecca for drum-and-bass culture in the States... soon it became known as the premier drum-and-bass night in the nation, with upwards of 300 people in attendance week after week." According to Blakley, "If you go back and look at the peak, probably 2000 to 2002, we were consistently pulling more people than anyone else in the country. It was cool, because everyone wanted to play Breakdown so bad that we'd get DJs who'd normally get like a million dollars to come and play for us for a lot less." Among the ravers that came to Breakdown on a regular basis was Sean Sabo, also known as DJ Sabotage. Sabo began guesting from time to time when Kozak and Blakley were mixing at the club.^[4]

Blakley and Kozak decided to end Breakdown in 2004 after a consistent six-year run, with Blakley explaining at the time that "The night has run its course. We want to end it while it's still a good night rather than watch it fade away, like most other nights do." The last event in July 2004 featured Ed Rush and Optical, as well as many of the local DJs who had played at the series in the past. After Breakdown ended, D.ecco, Sabotage and Blakely moved in August 2004 from the Snake Pit to the basement of the Church in Denver, starting a Thursday night drum and bass event.^[4]

2010–14: Touring

Using both the aliases DJ Fury and Fury he has toured frequently since the 1990s, performing on both the east and west coasts of the United States into the 2000s and 2010s. Cities he has performed at regularly include Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Seattle, and San Francisco, among others.^[2] Blakley often performs in his home city of Denver as well.^[5][6] In July 2014 Blakley played at the Global Dance Festival,^[7] which he has played regularly along with festivals such as EDC Las Vegas, Paradiso, and Nocturnal Wonderland.^[2]

Fury in 2012

On tour Blakely is usually accompanied by MC Dino,^[7] a lyricist who has been emceeing in Colorado since 1997. MC Dino is also a seven-year resident of Breakdown Thursdays, a drum and bass club night operated by Blakley and held at the Snake Pit in Denver. Blakley and MC Dino have performed together at festivals such as the Electric Daisy Carnival in 2011^[8] and Bassrush Massive, a week-long event held in Las Vegas in June 2013.^[9] Others include the 2014 Paradiso event^[10] and the June 2014 Electric Forest Festival held in Rothbury, Michigan.^[11] According to Travel Hymns, Blakley and MC Dino "deliver a natural pairing of hip hop tendencies with explosive drum and bass. With MC Dino serving as somewhat a hype man, the duo delivers kinetic live performances."^[12]

2014: Recent projects

As of 2014 Blakley is a resident DJ for Reload, Beta Nightclub & Bassrush, the drum & bass division of Insomniac. Today regular Reload events continue in Denver, and Blakley continues to organize and co-host the weekly event at Beta Nightclub, entitled Bassic Fridays.^[2]

With Betrayed

Mixtapes

The following is an incomplete list of mixtapes self-released by Fury:

Singles