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.

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!

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.

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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

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

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

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.

Well, surprised by how good he was, I was inspired and on my train home last night, I did a few remixes you’re welcome to download…

GMUNNI vs Azealia Banks:

GMUNNI vs Chase and Status:

GMUNNI vs Old Skool Jungle:

GMUNNI vs Old Skool Garage:

GMUNNI vs Skeptikal, Dub Phizix & Strategy:

and GMUNNI vs Dr Dre:

Download all the mixes here

From Oakland California but currently residing in Hollywood, she’s got something Aaliyah-ish about her. Rather than running from the comparison, Phlo is embracing it, especially in this, the video for Shades, where she pays homage to Baby Girl:

Taken from the EP, Crown Gold, it’s definitely worth your bandwidth. Have a listen if you don’t believe me:

Grab it here & follow her on twitter here

That brings us up to a total of 197 Jam Hots overall since the show started in 2007. Who’ll have the 200th Jam Hot? Find out next year…!!

Really happy that finally Rita Ora makes a vocal appearance on a major track! We’ve been waiting years and years since she signed to Roc Nation and some may say, the wait has been thoroughly justified. After getting the first 1Xtra spin of it on last night’s show, the response was positive from the Original Jammers but what do you think?

Artist: DJ Fresh ft Rita Ora
Track Name: Hot Right Now
Label: MOS
Release Date: 26.02.2012

The D.O.T is Mike Skinner’s post The Streets musical project alongside Rob Harvey from The Music. They were put together with Ghostpoet (who I’ll admit, other than the remix of ‘Cash & Carry Me Home’ I haven’t really got until now) by those creative types over at Rizlab who are doing some really interesting projects at the moment. The idea of the video is that it was all shot ‘as live’ with an online audience deciding what would invade the set next. The artists apparently had no idea what was coming next.

Musically, I love it. Mike has dusted off his classic ‘Original Pirate Material’ 2 step vibe, Ghostpoet compliments the verses perfectly and Rob smashes the hook. Check it here: