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Video: Eric Turner ft Kardinal Offishall, Wretch 32 & Professor Green – Style Changer

January 19th, 2012 by admin

The 200th Jam Hot now has some sick visuals:

Title track from Eric’s forthcoming mixtape produced by iSHii & Charlie Bernado, keep an eye out for the mixtape. We’ll hopefully have a link for you in a couple of weeks.

Since October 2007, every week on the show I’ve picked one record that has become my Jam Hot record of the week on my show on BBC Radio 1Xtra. This week marks the 200th Jam Hot so to celebrate, here’s the list of all the records that have made it into the Jam Hot Hall of Fame. Some of the records went on to be massive national chart hits, some stayed underground and some disappeared without trace; but all of them at one point haven’t been just hot. They’ve been Jam Hot!

1. Pyrelli – Can’t Be Asked
2. DJ Hazard & Distorted Minds – Mr Happy
3. ScoyZayZee – Final Destination
4. Baobinga & ID presents Big Monster ft Virus Syndicate – Jump Up Get Hype
5. Young Kof – You Must Be Dumb
6. Tera Beats ft James Collins – Something About the Way
7. Gemma Fox -Voicemail
8. Terra Danjah ft Durrty Goodz – Reloadz
9. Mutya Buena – Just a Remix
10. Yves La Rock ft Roland Richards – Zookey (Delinquent Bassline Remix)
11. Asa – Fire on the Mountain
12. 3Face ft Wretch 32, Nasty Jack, Nolay, Tinchy Stryder -Different World (Remix)
13. Jammer ft C Gritz, Double O, Badness – It’s a Lot
14. Danny Byrd – Shock Out
15. Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir Vs Young MC – Know How Theme
16. Illmana ft Tayla Jade – Take Me Away
17. Jonny L – Oh Yeah
18. Kid Cudi – Day & Night (Crookers Remix)
19. Booda & Becky Rhodes – Cheeky Things
20. Vula – If U Want (Wookie Mix)
21. Visionary ft Camp Solider – Change
22. Chipmunk – Muhammad Ali
23. Sadie Ama – Those Were the Days
24. Dynamite MC – What
25. JC ft Fake Rapper – Belly
26. Roll Deep ft Janay – Do Me Wrong
27. Utah Jazz – Back in Time
28. Addictive – Chocolate
29. London Elektricity – Attack Ships on Fire
30. Donae’O – African Warrior
31. Alan Braxe ft Killa Kela, Fallon – Nightwatcher
32. Cool Kids – Bake Sale EP
33. Roots Manuva – Again & Again
34. Delinquent ft KCat – I Got You (Bassline Mix)
35. Wookie ft Ny – Fallin’ Again
36. Professor Green – Just Be Good To Me
37. Wretch 32 – Be Cool
38. Soda Boys ft Smith the Mister, Fuzzgod – Everybody Cha Cha (aka Club Soda)
39. Chase & Status – Eastern Jam
40. Scorcher ft J2K, Wiley – I Know
41. Crisssy Criss ft Youngman – Take You Higher
42. Rinse – Put ‘em Up
43. JStar & S.O.R. – All I Need
44. G Fam ft Princess – Frontline
45. DJ Q ft MC Bonez – Back it Up
46. Tinie Tempah – Biker Babes
47. JME – JuJu Riddim
48. Master Shortie – Dead End
49. Artificial Intelligence – Days of Rage
50. Ghetts ft Griminal – Don’t Phone Me
51. P Money ft Vince Harder – Everything
52. Rusko – Cockney Thug
53. The Madame Project – Chemistry
54. Thomas Jules – Get Close To You
55. B.O.B. – I’ll Be In the Sky
56. Blame ft Selah – Because of You
57. Sabrina Washington – Get Out My House (Donae’O Remix)
58. Durrty Goodz – Hard Times
59. Magnetic Man – Cyberman
60. The Qemists ft Jenna G – On the Run
61. La Roux – In For the Kill (Skream Remix)
62. Lethal Bizzle ft Donae’O – Go Hard
63. Katie Pearl – Universal Love
64. Kyza – Love & Music
65. Caspa – Riot Powder
66. High Contrast – Seven Notes in Black
67. Fr3e – Tribal Skank (Skank Calm Down)
68. Marvell – These Boys
69. Bashy – Who Wants to be a Millionaire
70. Clipz – Give it to Me
71. The Streets – In the Middle
72. Mr Hudson ft Kanye West – Supernova
73. Donae’O – Party Hard
74. The Streets ft Giggs – Slow Songs
75. Mpho Skeef – Box n Locks
76. Sway – Merecdes Benz
77. Dizzee Rascal ft Calvin Harris – Holiday
78. Dirty Danger – Hardbody
79. Skream – Burning Up
80. Eve & Benga – Me and My
81. Willoe – Consciousness
82. Zed Bias – Neighbourhood 2009
83. Geeneus ft Ms Dynamite – Get Low
84. Duck Sauce – Anyway
85. Crystal Clear & Cabbie ft Stapleton – Itz a Lot
86. Wiley ft Emeli Sande – Never Be Your Woman
87. Emalkay – When I Look At You
88. Jackson 5 – I Want You Back (Blame Remix)
89. Simian Mobile Disco ft Beth Ditto – Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)
90. Wiley ft Chew Fu – Take That
91. P Money ft Vince Harder – Love Alone
92. Gappy Ranks – Stinkin Rich
93. Boy Better Know – Goin In
94. Breakage ft Newham Generals, David Rodigan – Hard (Caspa Remix)
95. Bertie Blackman – Byrds of Prey (DC Breaks Remix)
96. Rox – No Going Back
97. ScorZayZee – Luv Me
98. Mystro – 2009 UK Rap Up
99. Doctor – Tek Your Time
100. Edward Oberon – Paradise
101. The Others – Gravity
102. Rude Kid – Emergency
103. J2K ft Roses Gabor – Don’t Let Go
104. Ty – Emotions
105. Blame ft Ruff Sqwad’s Fuda Guy, Tinchy Stryder – On My Own
106. Bashy ft Loick Essien – When The Sky Falls (Swindle Remix)
107. The A List – Midnight Lover
108. Akala – XXL
109. Joker – Tron
110. Vato Gonzalez – Badman Riddim
111. P Money & Sukh Knight – Slang Like This
112. Die – Bright Lights
113. Skepta – Rescue Me
114. Nero – Innocence
115. Chuck Dem Gee ft Roch’L Royalle – Round & Round
116. Professor Green – Just Be Good To Green
117. Janelle Monae ft Big Boi – Tightrope
118. El B ft Natasha – I Feel
119. Tinchy Stryder – Gangsta
120. D Double E – Streetfighter Riddim
121. Mz Bratt – Selectah
122. Toddla T ft Wayne Marshall – Sky Surfin
123. Donae’o – I’m Fly
124. MIA – Xxxo
125. Redlight ft Ms Dynamite – What You Talkin About?
126. Wayne Marshall – My Heart
127. Marvell – We Know
128. B Live ft Newham Generals, Skepta & Spyda – Modern Warfare 2
129. Mr M – Dash Down
130. Youngman & Benga – Ho
131. Danny Byrd – Ill Behavior
132. Shy FX ft Kano, Donaeo, Roses Gabor – Raver
133. Marco Del Horno vs Swerve ft P Money – Ho Riddim
134. MJ Cole ft Wiley – From The Drop
135. Maverick Sabre ft Footsie – Inside
136. Wretch 32 – Traktor
137. Chase & Status ft Tempa T – Hypest Hype
138. Nero – Do You Wanna
139. Jamie Woon – Night Air
140. Jessie J – Do It Like A Dude
141. DJ Spooky – Spartan
142. Fresh Vs Sigma – Lassitude
143. Yasmin – On My Own
144. Virgo – Home Alone
145. Dennis Ferrer – The Red Room
146. Emalkay – Crusader
147. Jah Cure ft Mavado, Rick Ross – Like I See It
148. Teeza – Bounce
149. Modestep – Feel Good
150. J Cole – Who Dat
151. Breakage ft Jess Mills – Fighting Fire
152. The Bullitts ft Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu – Close Your Eyes
153. Nu:Tone ft Natalie Williams – Shine In
154. Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX – We’re New Here LP
155. D1 ft Jenna G – Flood Of Emotions
156. Distance ft Alys Be – Falling
157. Kozzie ft Marger, Merky Ace, Rival, Ego, Scrufizzer – Spartan Remix
158. Nero – Guilt
159. Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar (Zinc Remix & Original)
160. Time Takers – She Blows (Whistle Song)
161. Fireworkz ft Bounty Killer, Ghetts, Shystie, Trilla – Limb By Limb
162. Interface ft William Cartwright – Truth Beyond
163. Ms Dynamite – Neva Soft
164. Delilah – Breathe
165. Circus Records – Circus One LP
166. Brookes Brothers ft Johnny Osbourne – In Your Eyes
167. True Tiger ft Professor Green, Maverick Sabre – In The Air
168. Terror Danjah ft Ruby Lee Rider – Full Attention
169. Joker ft Jessie Ware – The Vision (Breathe In)
170. DEVolution – Good Love
171. Foreign Beggars ft Skrillex – Still Getting It
172. Javeon McCarthy – Love Without A Heart
173. Pinch – Swish
174. Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Close
175. Emeli Sande – Heaven
176. Mike Delinquent Project & KCat – Out Of Control
177. D Double E – Bluku! Bluku! EP
178. The Others – First Flight EP
179. Artful ft Kal Lavelle – Could Just Be The Bassline
180. Ed Sheeran ft Wretch 32 & Devlin – You Need Me I Don’t Need You Remix
181. Sneakbo – Sneakbo Wave
182. Donae’O ft Terri Walker – When Angels Sing
183. Professor Green – Read All About It
184. Doctor P & Jenna G – Neon
185. Stinkahbell – Something In Your Eyes
186. Mz Bratt – Tear It All Down
187. Culture Shock – Protection
188. Sam Frank – Simple Life
189. Switch & Andrea Martin – I Still Love You
190. Dot Rotten – Keep it on a Low
191. Youngman – Who Knows
192. Yasmin ft Shy FX, Ms Dynamite – Light Up The World
193. Jessie Ware – Strangest Feeling
194. Jakwob – Let it Fall
195. C4 – Off Track
196. Knife Party – 100% No Modern Talking EP
197. Skeptical & Dub Phizix ft Stratehy – Marka
198. DJ Fresh ft Rita Ora – Hot Right Now
199. Childish Gambino – All the Shine
200. Eric Turner ft Kardinal Offishall, Wretch 32, Professor Green – Style Changer

*Jam Hot image kindly pillaged from a lovely company in Glasgow called Jam Hot who have been operating since 2008 so could have possibly got inspiration for their company name from the name of this feature. But probably not. They’ve got nothing to do with me but they do seem lovely. Their website is here if you’re looking for some quality Scottish design!

Video: Rusko – Somebody To Love

January 17th, 2012 by admin

Long time badman and good friend of the shows Rusko has just announced details for his new album, single and UK tour.

Rusko’s new album, “Songs”, will be released 26th March via Mad Decent. The record follows the pioneering dubstep producer’s 2010 debut album “O.M.G!”. The first single from “Songs” will be a record we premièred back in August – featuring vocals from Vula “Somebody To Love” will be released 23rd January:

Following Rusko’s 26-date tour of America, the Leeds-born now LA-based producer and DJ will be hitting the UK for the shows below.

Mon, 19th March – Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
Tue, 20th March – Tuesday Club, Sheffield
Wed, 21st March – Audio, Brighton
Thu, 22nd March – Smack, Leamington Spa
Fri, 23rd March – Fabric, London
Sat, 24th March – Motion, Bristol

Hopefully we’ll get him to pass through the show when he comes over! Big up Rusko!

Interview: Yasmin

January 16th, 2012 by Sam Moir

Yasmin kicks off 2012 with the Shy FX-produced Light Up (The World). This year will also see her release her debut album.

MistaJam.com’s Sam Moir caught up with her to chat about her career to date and what this year has in store.

What do you make of the support you’ve received early on in your career?

It’s been fantastic. I’ve been lucky enough to DJ for Pharrell and N*E*R*D. They’re people who I admire and some of the best producers of my generation so that’s really flattering. Then there’s DJs like MistaJam and Annie Mac who have fantastic taste in music. They’re real musos and play some great music – for them to support me as well is just an honour.

How are you splitting your time between DJing and production?

A lot of DJs get the urge to create their own music. It just comes from knowledge of music and a lot of tracks and styles to reference from. I’m pretty good at keeping both up. Making music takes a lot of time and a lot of dedication and I can have club residencies. I always make the time to do DJ gigs because it keeps me hungry and keeps me passionate. It’s something that I really enjoy doing.

How’s the album coming on?

The album’s coming on really well – the last year has been a real learning process and evolution of myself. I’m writing much better songs now I’ve had the pleasure of working with a lot of exciting people. For me, it’s about mixing great songs with really interesting production. Songwise, my style is very melodic and catchy. I try and tell a story – I’m not one of those people who use metaphors and analogies. It’s all real life. It’s a long process but I’m very adamant to get it right and say what I want to say with this album. It takes time but we’re getting there.

Where would you say it’s influenced from?

I reflect on things that make sense to me. For me, it’s a lot of 90s influences, a lot of reverb, there’s dub and reggae influences on the album, nothing too heavily electronic. It’s got an organic feel to it. A lot of the album’s inspiration is taken from tracks in the 90s era and lyrically, it’s very honest.

You’ve collaborated with Ms Dynamite on Light Up, how features heavy will the album be?

I’ve only done one collaboration with Ms Dynamite so far and I think I’m going to keep it minimal on the features. I want to showcase myself – I’m friends with a lot of people in the music industry and I could probably get a million features if I wanted them. But it’s important for me to stand alone and off the back of my own work. I always want to collaborate with other artists and work with other people, but there’s plenty of time to do that in the future.

Throughout the album process, so far, how would you say you’ve developed as an artist?

More in my songwriting – I never studied music and I wasn’t particularly great at English. My skills as a songwriter are naturally one of the most important things for me – to be recognised as a good writer. I also really want to learn guitar.

Where do you see yourself going with this album?

That’s up to the people who listen to it. Personally, I want this album to travel across the world and I want people all over the world to hear it and connect with it and I want it to allow me to get on the road, tour and bring the music live to people. If it does that, then I’m happy.

By the end of 2012, what are you looking to achieve?

Get the album out and I’d love to do my own headline tour. I’m speaking about other projects at the moment like visual and TV documentaries. I really want to get hands on with my upcoming videos.

Buy Light Up (The World) | Yasmin on Twitter | Sam Moir on Twitter

Radio: MistaJam & DJ Selyom

January 15th, 2012 by admin

Last night saw two worlds collide when I co-hosted my usual Xtra Dubstep Xtra Bass show with Radio 1′s breakfast show king Chris Moyles. Was great working with Chris again, last time was during his marathon show for Comic Relief.

Musically it was kept to what I normally do on a Saturday night but with a slight Moyles (who we re-christened DJ Selyom) twist. For the first time in 16 years at Radio 1, Moyles got behind the decks and delivered a 20 minute Dubstep and Grime mix. I can vouch for Chris as I was there in the studio – there was no studio or computer trickery involved: one man, 2 CDJ’s, a mixer, a pair of headphones and 2 CD’s filled with Dubstep and Grime tracks that weren’t altered in any way!

You can check out the full show here also including Jacob Plant Behind the Beats and Guest mix and a whole host of big tunes.

Tracklist:

Trolley Snatcha — Make My Whole World (Dub Police)

Utah Saints — What Can You Do For Me (Tantrum Desire Remix) (MOS)

Skrillex (Feat The Doors) — Breakn’ A Sweat (Big Beat/Atlantic)

Maverick Sabre — No One (Stinkahbell Remix) (Mercury)

B Traits (Feat Elizabeth Troy) — Fever (Digital Soundboy)

RedLight — GOMH (Get Out My Head) (MTA Records)

Adam F vs Sonic C — In The Air (3 Beat)

Nero — Must Be The Feeling (MTA Records)

Knife Party — Internet Friends (Earstorm)

Dubstep Download – Gemini

Amon Tobin — Surge (16bit Remix) (Ninja Tune)

Gemini — To The World (Dubplate)

501 — Falling Skies (Never Say Die)
xKore — Boom (Inspected)
Culprate — Tentacle (Inspected)

Zeds Dead — Adrenaline (Inspected)

Nero — Angst (MTA)

Kill The Noise — Talk To Me (OWSLA)

Ed Sheeran — You Need Me I Don’t Need You (Gemini Remix) (Aslyum)

Zeds Dead — Rumble In The Jungle (Mad Decent)

Nero — Promises (Nero Vs Skrillex Remix) (MTA)

Diddy — Ass On The Floor (Gemini Remix) (Interscope)

Major Lazer — Pon De Floor (Mad Decent)

SebastiAn — Love In Motion (Skrillex Remix) (Ed Banger)

Lana Del Rey — Born To Die (Gemini Remix) (Interscope)

Gemini — Blue (Inspected)
Culprate — B-Side (White Peach)
Feed Me & Gemini — Whiskers (Dubplate)
Dodge & Fuski — Guettastep (Dubplate)
Gemini — Vision (Inspected)

Download Gemini’s Dubstep Download for free here

DJ Fresh – (Feat Rita Ora) — Hot Right Now (Zed Bias Remix) (Ministry of Sound)

Chris Moyles aka DJ Selyom in the Mix

Flux Pavilion — Bass Cannon (Zomboy Remix) (Circus)

Avicii — Levels (Skrillex Remix) (Universal)

DJ Chuckie — Who Is Ready To Jump (Dillon Francis Remix) (Big Beat)

Dizzee Rascal — (Feat Scrufizzer) Guts N Glory (Dirtee Stank)

Rusko — Somebody To Love (Mad Decent)

Yasmin – (Feat Shy FX & Ms Dynamite) — Light Up The World (Levels/Ministry of Sound)

Sub Salute – Chosen by Chris Moyles

Reel 2 Real — (Feat The Mad Stuntman) I Like To Move It (Positiva)

Jacob Plant Behind The Beats & Guest Mix

Jacob Plant — Go Slow

Jacob Plant — (Feat. Majestic) Mosh Pit

xKore — Everybody Rock

Far Too Loud — Ready For The Stomping

Eddie K & Million Like Us — Sonar

Knife Party — Internet Friends

Jacob Plant — Sex, Drugs ‘n’ On The Doll

The 200th Jam Hot

Eric Turner — (Feat Kardinal Offishall, Wretch 32 & Professor Green) Style Changer (2 Stripes)

Skeptical & Dub Phizix — (Feat Strategy) Marka (MJ VIP) (Exit Records)

The MistaJam Marka Translation

January 10th, 2012 by admin

The biggest Underground record of the moment and also the first record I played in 2012 was this anthem – ‘Marka’ by Skeptical & Dub Phizix featuring Broke N £nglish’s Strategy. Finding favour with every Drum & Bass, Bass music and Underground music DJ worth their salt, it’s also a former Jam Hot. However a recurring question whenever I’ve played it on the radio though from those who aren’t as well versed in broken english (see what I did there) or Jamcunian Patois is “…what the hell did he say?” – well, never fear as I’ve taken the time to transcribe and translate the lyrics to Marka for you right here:

Stinking of issy miyake dark rum and the marijuana

At the moment, I smell of a heady blend of Issy Miyake aftershave mixed with the Dark rum and Marijuana I’ve been consuming. It’s quite a potent mix.

Step inna mi lake and swim with the piranha

Metaphorically speaking, I’m so tough that if I had a lake and you were to step into it, you would find it full of Piranhas, which as you know are very dangerous fish and would most likely eat you.

Anytime mi drop mi go put down a marka

Whenever I’m about to drop something, whether it be a lyric or a heavy beat; I’m going to put down a marker so that you’re able to see where it came from.

If it nuh money say whe dem bother talk for?

If you’re going to ask me to perform or ‘drop a marka’ and you’re not considering paying me money for it, why are you talking to me at all? I am a professional wordsmith and expect to be paid for my work.

Dem a try fi hold up a bank wid a banana

Those kind of people I aforementioned are so silly, they’re the kind of person who would try to rob a bank armed with only a piece of fruit rather than a weapon.

Yeah we pree the whole ting panorama

Yes, indeed we watched the whole thing happen and found it as informative as that award winning BBC current affairs show Panorama.

Whole heap a gun talk they don’t really want no drama

Those silly people I mentioned before pretend to be hardcore by mentioning that they have guns but I bet that if push came to shove, they wouldn’t want to cause any disruption or drama so to speak.

We a kill dem a bloodclaat gain

In a soundclash against those fools, we will lyrically decimate them exactly as we have done before. In fact, I’m getting tired of lyrically decimating them. How many times must we do this?!

Got the tings on lock down again

Once more, we have secured our lyrical and musical arsenal for our soundclash combat.

Them a tek ten shots in again

In fact we have 10 hard hitting items to fire at them during our soundclash. These items are so hard hitting, they’re akin to shots fired from a gun.

Dem pon a old pan sound dem again

The technical capabilities of their musical set up leave a lot to be desired.

Man a gash dem and light them again

With reference to the 2006 reggae anthem by Chuck Fender ‘Gash Dem and Light Dem’, we’re going to fight against their negativity and purify their stupidity with our lyrical and musical fire!

Becaa me nah hyping again

Last time we faced each other, I got excited about the prospect. This time, it’s business.

Man are ready fi di war, when it comes on top, ‘ca me nah feel frightened again

We are ready for this soundclash when the time comes and although last time it happened, I felt nervous energy; this time I don’t.

Hope that helps you enjoy the record!

Download it here. Watch the video here.

Free Music: GMunni MistaJam Remixes

January 6th, 2012 by admin

Yesterday on BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra, everyone’s favourite radio DJ and TV presenter from Oldham – Nick Grimshaw – made his rap debut live on Westwood’s show.
Re-christening himself G Munni & jumping on Drake’s The Motto beat he displayed rap skill & flow that surprised so many people, he was trending worldwide on twitter!