Dan Rankin (aka Trials)

I know it.

I would have never, ever had access to that type of money.

No chance.

There is no way I would have seen $5,000 in the next 10 to 20 years.

I guarantee you that.

So to be able to throw it all against the wall and come out with a pair of turntables is

It's worked out.

It's worked out okay.

Again, don't recommend this to anybody.

So you moved out of the family home after your mum had remarried and you got some stepbrothers and sisters.

You moved out with a friend when you were still a teenager.

Tell me about the place and the scene you moved into in Adelaide.

My family home at that point was pretty stable, so I can't say I moved out of a dangerous home, but I moved into one.

That's for sure.

Me and my friend, we were 16, 17 years old in a very small council house that we were paying $50 a week.

And I just had freedom for the first time in my entire life.

I had turntables.

I had a love of writing songs, of making music, of playing music.

And I had nobody to tell me to turn it down.

I had no doors to close.