Donk's northern roots

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knew donk from

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that track donk became popular up north

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in Wigan that area where the blackout

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crew are from there's a really legendary

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venue up there called Wigan Pier in the

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early to mid 2000s Wigan Pier was

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absolutely like the place to go for Don

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music and everyone sort of flocked there

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as like the Donk

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Maca do you remember the first time you

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heard donk

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music the first time I heard donk was a

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long time ago when I was in my teenage

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years that was even before blackout crew

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did put a don on it there was a DJ

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called Alex K who's a popular Australian

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DJ who was doing donk mashups of dance

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tracks his tracks were the most popular

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ones on wig and Pier when the Donk scene

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first originated I can remember the

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first donk event that I went to which

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was entrance versus Ultra beat who are

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still both massive acts they played a

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whole set of donk and it was just pure

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Euphoria it was is like totally

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uplifting and you just leave on such a

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good vibe and I think that's really what

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made me think yeah I need to get into

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this