As I said in my interview with LeftLion Magazine – 2009 is the year that Dubstep & Funky will take over. There’s so much quality music out there, it’s very exciting to be a DJ on national radio to be able to represent all genres and expose this music to a national audience.

I got into dubstep in early 2007 – quite a latecomer really. As with so many of us new school dubstep fans, it was one infectious bassline in particular that got us hooked – Benga & Coki’s “Night”. You could play that record to any crowd: from Rock, to Mainstream, to “Urban” to Dance…and everyone would go nuts. We tried to get Benga on the show to do a guest mix for us. And tried. And tried. Then as Magnetic Man’s “Cyberman” is Jam Hot this week and as Benga is one third of Magnetic Man (alongside Artwork and Skream), we were able to try again to get him into the show and this time we succeeded!

On Tuesday, armed with a bag of the freshest dubplates (yes, real dubplates – VINYL!!); Benga threw down the sickest of guest mixes after a brief interview about his past, present & future:

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And then he threw down this mix:

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