12 steps to becoming an (amateur) DJ

Normally as a DJ you would learn to mix before accepting a booking and hosting your own weekly show on the best underground radio station in the country. If you’re like Rinse FM’s Sian Anderson and need to learn how to mix quickly as you’ve accepted a booking and feel you can’t continue holding down your show on Rinse without those most basic of DJ skills; here are her 12 steps to becoming an (amateur) DJ!

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Posted by Sian at 12:32 pm on July 26th, 2010

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Saturday Night Soundclash 12/06/2010

Here is the tracklist for last week’s show – new Magnetic Man, Diddy-Dirty Money ft Tinie Tempah, Gyptian remixed by Major Lazer and the world premiere of the new Roll Deep single:

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Posted by Jam at 9:32 am on June 13th, 2010

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Saturday Night Soundclash 05/06/2010

Seems that the Radio 1/Radio 1Xtra tracklist system is down at the moment judging by the amount of tweets and facebook messages I’ve got requesting the trackistings from last night’s show.

Well, no matter what, here they are… (more…)

Posted by Jam at 4:58 pm on June 6th, 2010

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IN NEW MUSIC WE TRUST IN NEWCASTLE: THE DEBRIEF

Posted by Jam at 1:19 pm on March 12th, 2010

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HOW TO GET LISTENERS & INFLUENCE PEOPLE

Last night a DJ saved my life… Okay not literally but one day I will save someone’s life. I know I’m Sian “Journalist/PR/everything-else-media-related” Anderson, but now you can add to your list Sian “Radio Host” Anderson…

Rinse.FM Sunday 11am-1pm is where you’ll find me now. Every week. Jealous? Thought so. We’re on our third show at the moment, when I say “we” I obviously mean my partner in all things non sexual, Julie Adenuga. We contacted Rinse about a year ago about getting a show but we didn’t really get anywhere. I mean we’d never really done radio before. A couple guest shows on LBC with Tre Azam and Nick Connrad and various other radio stations but we’d never actually hosted one. And DJing? Phahahaaa. As if we could DJ. So naturally we didn’t get a great response about having a show.

During the “Sian’s a rude blogger who says hilariously mean things about music on her blog” stage of my life, I was invited on BANG radio by the lovely and amazing Tahirah Edwards where myself and Loukia “HIYA”d up the place and talked all things rude boys, sex and the music industry”. Anyway blah blah blah was contacted by Scratcha DVA who hosts a hilarious morning show on Rinse FM. Smacked that up in my normal grime-rude-girl stylee and BLAM. Me and Julie get a show.

On our first show we had the experienced and mixing genius DJ JJ to support us as we hosted, Twitted, shouted out the phone number and played some exclusive grime tuneages. It was amazing fun! Our last show was on valentines day. And in true give-a-f*ck-about-valentines-day form we entered the Rinse building ready to basically take the p*ss out of the people in love.

Sidebar: How funny is this?

We’ve got a monthly playlist of amazing music, (also known as tunes that me and Julie have on our iPhones on repeat), have a look at our playlist it’s fantastic. Then we made an agony aunt section where we respond to peoples problems using tunes. It’s probably the funniest part of the show. Imagine being told your girlfriends having a baby by your twin brother and we tell you to get some nuts via “Blacks ft Jammer – Timid”. Julie made an agony aunt terms and conditions; I very nearly wet myself with laughter when I heard it.

The bottom line is; radio is fantastic. We’ve even learnt to DJ as well. Julies on vinyl and I’m on CDJ’s. Proof that if you lock myself and Julie in a room with anything we’ll have the basics on lock in under 24 hours.

P.s Grime Forum tw*ts who reckon (iQuote) “What have they done to deserve a Rinse show? there’s more deserving DJ’s”. – Get a show on Rinse and THEN holla. Thanks.

Toodles

Sian x

[Getting a show on radio and keeping it and learning the art of DJing is a lot harder than Sian makes out in this post which is essentially full of lies & more gas than Calor. Rinse don't even broadcast live between 11 & 1 on Sunday, they just tell the girls they're on air to stop them from going Tempa T in the Rinse offices. Trust me, I know - Jam]

Posted by Sian at 11:30 am on February 19th, 2010

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SCORZAYZEE’S FREESTYLE FRENZY

Previously on the blog… Now, I may be bias because I’ve known him since I was 14 and he was then going by the name of S aka Sense but damn if he doesn’t GO IN ON THESE FREESTYLES!!

If you love HipHop and you don’t love this, you don’t really love HipHop. Simples.

The verses over Nas’ “One Love” is like a warm up for the bars he spat over Jay-Z’s “Threats” beat! And the bars on “Threats” were written in the car on the way to 1Xtra hence the paper in his hand while he spat the lyrics. Jheez!

The video for part 2 – using 2Pac’s “Changes” beat is available to watch here. Big shouts to Online Al for the hook up & the editing.

Bloggers, if you wanna re-post the video and need the embed code – holla.

Posted by Jam at 2:15 am on December 16th, 2009

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SCORZAYZEE – LUV ME

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I can’t remember ever hearing a more honest British HipHop record – Scorz really bares his soul on this and breaks down the story of why he disappeared from the game 5 years ago. He passed through my show last night and blessed us with a live performance of Luv Me and also an amazing freestyle (video coming soon).

While we wait for his album proper to drop in Feb, he’s put together a new free mixtape called “The Starter” that you can download for free from here – I highly recommend it. And Big Dada A&R’s – get your chequebook out. THIS is who you should be signing for some real Hip Hop. Tracklisting after the jump:

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Posted by Jam at 10:19 am on December 11th, 2009

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IN NEW 1XTRA DJ’S WE TRUST

If you weren’t listening to the final show of Dubstep week on 1Xtra on Friday, you may have missed my announcement about a new show coming to the network.

In New 1Xtra DJ’s We Trust

Here’s the official info:

From Sunday 4^th October, 1Xtra will be invaded by a new flock of DJ talent.

There’s a new show landing on Sunday nights from 1am – In New 1Xtra DJs We Trust.

Our very own Twin B will be presenting one of the shows, showcasing new UK DJ and production talent. 1^st Sun of every month.

Footloose will be continuing his house show, presenting up and coming stars from that world. 2^nd show of every month.

2 new faces to 1Xtra we’re really excited about too..

Trail blazer Redlight will be holding down the 3^rd Sunday of every month, with a mixture of dirty electro and brand new sounds from the world of electronic music.

AND as if that wasn’t enough, to hold down the 4^th Sunday of every month in TRUE DUBSTEP STYLE is RUSKO!!!

So that’s In New 1Xtra DJs We Trust, launching 4^th October on Sunday nights from 1am…

Being the main 1Xtra supporter of both Dubstep that Rusko is known for & the Dirty Electro music that Redlight is known for, this is a good look for me and fans of my 1Xtra show. I’ll be locking in…

Posted by Jam at 2:55 pm on September 13th, 2009

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1XTRA DUBSTEP WEEK – DAY TWO

Tonight’s show was all about Dubstep vs the US – I caught up with US superstar Eve. we had a Guest Mix from the new LA resident Rusko full of exclusives and DJ Plastician passed through 1Xtra towers to speak about the “Dubstep LA” mixtape (I even wore my Undrcrwn USA Bear T-Shirt in honour!) Hold tight for the linkage…

And you can download a free Mini Mix from Caspa – just click on the photo below

Tomorrow from 7pm we have the Dubstep All Stars in the mix with Chase n Status, Nero, Jakes, Joker and Plastician back to back

Posted by Jam at 10:17 pm on September 8th, 2009

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Tags: BBC Radio 1Xtra, Caspa Mini Mix, Dubstep, free download, Guest Mix, MistaJam, Plastician, Rusko.

1XTRA’S DUBSTEP WEEK – DAY ONE

All this week on 1Xtra is Dubstep week – I get the chance to represent a genre that is currently DOING IT for me and for an increasing amount of people at the moment.

In order to know where we’re going we have to know where we’ve come from so tonight (Monday) has been all about ‘The Roots Of Dubstep’:

Dubstep PIONEER Oris Jay hooked us up with an amazing dark garage/proto-dubstep mix..

El-B & Noodles came into the studio to talk about the Groove Chronicles days & the history of Dubstep as they know it (shouts to Sarah Soulja!)

And Radio 1′s First Lady of Dubstep Mary Anne Hobbs broke down how she fell in love with the genre and in turn introduced the world to it with her seminal Dubstep Warz

It was pretty emotional and most definitely heavy. Listen again to the whole show for the next 7 days here.

Plus you can download a mini mix from current Dubstep party don Rusko FOR FREE for the next 7 days by clicking the picture below.