Dirty Le Roi aka DLR (James Rowbotham) is an original member of the Leeds based collective Central Beatz who have pushed alternative dance music in Leeds for the past 6 years starting their first major monthly club night in 2005.

When James was 16, he moved away from his Punk Rock and Ska roots and got into drum & bass, attending many club-nights and raves in his home town of Bristol, at a time when Roni Size - 'New Forms' had won a mercury music prize and had put Bristol on the map for underground dance music. Soon after, he began creating his own music using an early version of 'Logic' - experimenting with drum&bass, hip-hop and breakbeat. Having become hooked on bedroom production, James moved to Leeds to study music production at Leeds College of Music. It was in Leeds that he met Dom (Ruckspin) and Chris (LD50) the co-founders of the Central Beatz collective who at that time ran a radio show on Leeds Student Radio based in Leeds University.

Rarely happy with the level of sound quality reproduced in many of the venues they used for the events, James and some friends from music college invested in what is now known as the Central Beatz Soundsystem. This enabled the central beatz collective to take part in festivals, free parties and start a business renting out professional audio equipment across Leeds to all styles of music and events (ranging from simple club-nights to more complicated events such as the recent Dubstep concert at Yorkminster Cathedral).

DLR now finds himself living in Leeds still for his 6th year, with a track made with Ruckspin and Planas called 'Heart Murmur' signed to Ranking records getting radio support from Mary Anne Hobbs and across the Dubstep scene, as well as being signed up to Ant TC1's label 'Dispatch', with his first release 'Space and Time', a collaboration with Ant coming out on DIS33 and many more in the pipeline, as well as the forthcoming label Central Beatz Recordings which is planned to be launched late 2009.