Career
He is known for being one of the pioneers of the music genre "NRG", and his Ultimate NRG and Kickin Hard compilations. He has sold over 600,000 albums worldwide, and has remixed and written for over 200 artists across the globe. Karbouris is one of Australia"s highest selling hard dance exports.
On 20 August 2013 he announced via his Facebook page that he has retired from producing NRG. 1996–2004: Early life and career
Originally beginning his career in 1994 at community radio station 99.3FM, he joined Australian radio station, Wild FM, and was responsible for numerous megamixes that featured on the Wild Civil Defense compilations.
He signed with Central Station Records in 1998, and released the first of many compilations titled Kickin Hard, under the alias "Alex K". 2004–2011: Ultimate NRG
Karbouris moved from his hometown Sydney, Australia to Liverpool, United Kingdom in 2004, and signed a record deal with Universal/AATW. Karbouris has had several chart hits with his productions, more notably "If you were mine", "Rise Again", and "Moving too fast" – Supafly Incorporated (under the alias of NorthWest).
He has written and worked with many writers and producers, and had writing credits alongside Annie Lennox with his track "Angel in my heart". His song "My Time", was featured and looped in the freeway chase scene of the movie Hancock in 2008.
He has remixed numerous mainstream and underground artists, including The Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga, Nicole Scherzinger and David Guetta.