It’s been a long time since I’ve hit up Jams blog. *sings* “It feels like foreverrrrr” (is that even a real song)… never mind. As I was saying, it’s been ages and I miss the little image icon thingy that Jam Jam has on the corner of the page when you refresh it so I’m backkkk bishessssssss.

Do we remember the post I did a while ago about having a show on Rinse Fm every sunday? (11am-1pm, lock in… safe). I think I mentioned that I can’t mix records to save my life. I couldn’t. In fact I don’t even think I’d even touched a deck before (Disclaimer: This might be an exaggeration – if you have a pic of me touching a deck then… don’t quote me). So having a show was wicked and I was glad Rinse had given me and Julie the chance to play some exciting new music and chat about… stuff… on their station. Now it’s about six months down the line, (methinks) and Rinse have their legal licence (WHOOP WHOOP) so in celebration of this. And just because I thought it’d be useful and fun to know how, I decided to learn how to mix. If you’re a beginner then listen up, just follow these steps and you’ll be a badderman deejay in NO TIME!

Step 1: Find Skilliam (Rinse FM badder man DJ) and lock him in a room with you and Julie for two hours with CDJ’s and multiple CD’s.

Step 2: Find DJ JJ (Rinse FM’s badder BADDERMAN DJ) and get him to use his connects to magically hook you up with some CDJ’s.

Step 3: Take them home and ring (any which badderman DJ above) and learn how to hook the wires up to the mixers.

Step 4: Stare dumbfounded at the mixers and flashing lights, squint your eyes really hard and try to remember what Skilliam and JJ taught you.

Step 5: I can’t help you with, this is the part where you need to put your musical knowledge, and your concentration along with your common sense together and work out A) Your tune selection. B) The tempos of your tunes C) How all the channels and cross faders work. Play around a little bit, get to know your music properly, every beat, where the beat drops, where the lyrics begin… EVERYTHING and then spend some time getting comfortable with the equipment.

Step 6: Announce on Twitter (tweet tweet) that you’re going to attempt to deejay and then bobs your uncle (INSERT FLYERS HERE) you’re booked at some NEXT HYPE raves.

Step 7: Realise you’re actually moving way to fast for your own good and feel a bit sickly and panic that you’re about to embarrass your whole entire life when you flop the mix in front of everyone at the bookings.

Step 8: PRACTISE! FOR HOURS/DAYS/WEEKS/MONTHS/YEARS (In my case days)

Now I was prepared (and by prepared I mean I hyped so much that I couldn’t back down) I cheated though. I wrote down all the songs I was going to play and practised the hour long set over and over again for four hours straight. I went to the booking and BLAM! The CDJ’s were NOT the ones I had been practising with. CRINGE. I panicked. The amazing DJ Motive calmed my life down and I put my CDs in the mixer and waited… and waited… and waited… and… nothing happened. The CD’s DIDN’T WORK. So as you can guess, that was a flop. (No par to me the profession DJ Complex after me had the same problem).

Step 9: Rant on Twitter about what happened and be a moany cow till the very lovely promoter of The Bang Bang event contacts you and tells you to come to his event later on that day and do the warm up set. Accept it and arrive at your destination.

This is the part where you realise this is NOT your bedroom, the speakers are VERY loud and the decks are up 5 foot 8 high and you’re 5 foot 6. See that the rave is infact a Hip Hop rave and although you have Hip Hop CD’s with you you’ve never mixed Hip Hop in your life, realise the venue is fast filling up and (yup you guessed it)… PANIC.

Step 10: DO THE DAMN THING!

Now I wanted to chicken out. Soooo badly. But I thought “what’s the worst that can happen”. The worst that could happen… happened. The mixers were not starting on beat. I wheeled up the tings dem, cue’d it, and started a funky tune. The left deck decided it was going to start playing automatically and you’ve got the cross fader in the middle so everyone can hear what’s just happened.

Step 11: DON’T PANIC

Everyones seen you now, it’s now or never, in the words of Dizzee Rascal… Fix Up Look Sharp. So I did the damn thing, someone came and tweaked the decks a little bit so the tune started at the right time and I was off! DJ Joel (who was “wow” on the decks) was by my side just in case I flopped and helped me with the mix for the first couple when I did…flop. BUT people were vybzing to my selection! Best feeling in the world (other then the feeling you get when you’re eating red velvet cake… yum) and I played half an hour of funky, grime and dubstep…UNTIL some woman came and asked me to turn it down because she’s “trying to have a conversation and she can’t hear herself think”. I had the pleasure of informing her the bar is now a rave. Had giggle at her frustrated expression and then switched up the set to … HIP HOP.

Step 12: Common sense!

Apply everything you practised at this point. It would be silly to not mix them if possible. I was in the groove and thought “what the heck… I may as well try” and I selected a couple tunes that were similar speed, IT WORKED! I mixed four Hip Hop tunes, perfectly! The DJ Yasmin came. We got chatting. I forgot I was supposed to be mixing and she had to quickly lean over the decks (which were facing me NOT her) and listen into the headphones to hear what tune was next on the CD, mess with the tempo a bit and then the cross fader and then the bass and then the volume and BLAM! the tune mixed. She mixed the tune when all the equipment was facing the other way. In a dim light… I don’t need to say it do I? Yeah I do… BADMAN!

So all in all, I clanged a few times, panicked a few times and mixed perfectly a few times. There was a healthy balance. So whilst you were all (hopefully) locked into the Radio 1 & 1Xtra clash (If you wasn’t listen back here:)  I was DJing at my first ever booking. It felt brilliant.

I’ve got a long way to go in learning, and I’m going to try and learn properly because it’s really fun but I have the utmost respect to a lot of DJ’s now, it’s definitely not easy, the pressure, the tune selection, getting the mix right, it might sound simple, but it’s definitely an art, one you have to master. So big up all the DJs. I’m not trying to be a DJ as a career, it’s just loads of fun and I love music so sharing the music I love with other people is very worthwhile to me.

Last night my winning tunes were:
Young Mad B – Superfly
Cleo Sol & Davinche – Addicted
Meleka – Miss Me
Roses Gabor & Redlight – Stupid
Katy B – Katy On A Mission
P Money, True Tiger + Kelly Rowland – Commander
Jay Z – D.O.A
Beyonce – Upgrade U
Cam’rom – Hey Ma
Luniz – I Got Five On It
M.I.A – Paper Planes
Drake Ft Lil Wayne – I’m Going In

That’s all folks.

P.s prize for the person who can correctly guess how many “DJ terms” I used up there. Dun-know-the-lingo.com <http://Dun-know-the-lingo.com>

Catch me here next saturday anyway. It’s going to be wicked (believe I’m practising hard)

Toodles

x

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:

MistaJam: Saturday Night Soundclash on BBC Radio 1 & BBC Radio 1Xtra
Broadcast Saturday 12th June 2010
Listen on the iPlayer here

Tracklisting
Toddla T ft Wayne Marshall – Sky Surfin (Girls Music/Ninja Tune)
Aggro Santos – Saint Or Sinner (Future Music/Mercury)
Faction G – Your Name’s Not Down (The Bouncer) (Slaughter House/Can You Feel It)
Gyptian – Hold Yuh (Major Lazer Remix) (Ricky Blaze)
Orange Hill Productions ft Chino & Ritchie Dan – Dan Man (White Label)
Kano ft Aidonia & Wiley – Get Wild (Bigger Picture Music)
Swedish House Mafia ft Pharrell – One (Your Name) (Positiva)
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl ft Q Tip – Bang Bang Bang (Count & Sinden Remix) (Columbia)
Mighty Moe ft Wiley – Old Skool Dayz (White Label)

**WORLD PREMIERE: Roll Deep – Green Light (Relentless/Virgin)

Skitz ft Rodney P – Never (Benny Page Remix) (Dragon Drop)
Lenzman – Masquerade (Metalheadz)
Diddy-Dirty Money ft Tinie Tempah & Tinchy Stryder – Hello Good Morning (UK Remix) (Bad Boy/Interscope)

**JAM HOT: D Double E – Streetfighter Riddim (Dirtee Stank)

Swindle ft Skibadee – Woi (Airmiles) (Planet Mu)
Jammer ft Boy Better Know – 10 Man Roll (Big Dada)
Teddy & General Tank – Ghanaian Fire (Underground)

**MIDNIGHT MOMENT: Sticky ft Ms Dynamite – Booo! (FFRR)

Redlight ft Ms Dynamite – What You Talkin About (MTA Records)
Mz Bratt – Selecta (Soul 2 Streets)
M.I.A ft Jay-Z – XXXO (Remix) (XL)
Ciara – Switch (RCA)
Mavado – Hold Me (Chimney Records)
Elephant Man – Steady Wine (Chimney Records)
Serani – What You Need (Chimney Records)
Aidonia – Cyan Done (Chimney Records)

**ONE FROM THE FLOOR: Rusko ft Amber Coffman – Hold On (Mad Decent)

DAILY DOSE OF DUBSTEP: WEEKEND EDITION
Magnetic Man ft Angela Hunte – I Need Air (Columbia)
Katy B & Benga – Katy On A Mission (Ammunition)
DJ Hatcha – Dark Claps (Black Acre)
Distance – Falling (Chestplate)
Example – Kickstarts (Bar9 Remix) (Data)
Doctor P ft P Money – Sweet Shop (Come Follow Me) (Circus)
Wiley ft J2K & Jodie Connor – Electric Boogaloo (The Others Remix) (Backyard)

Professor Green ft Lily Allen – Just Be Good To Green (Camo & Krooked Remix) (Parlophone)

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…

Listen again to the show here
Join the Facebook crew here

And finally…

Tracklistings

Giggs – Look What The Cat Dragged In (MistaJam Special) (XL/SN1)
Big Boi – Shutterbugg (Def Jam)
Professor Green – Just Be Good To Green (ft Lily Allen) (Virgin)
Professor Green – Just Be Good To Green (ft Lily Allen) (Camo & Krooked Remix) (Virgin)
DJ Die & Interface – Bright Lights (ft William Cartwright) (Rockers Mix – MistaJam Dubplate) (Clearskyz)
JLS – The Club Is Alive (DC Breaks Remix) (Epic)
Tinie Tempah – Frisky (TC Remix) (Parlophone)
Mz Bratt – Selecta (Soul 2 Streets)
Gucci Mane – Lemonade (Atlantic)
JME ft Tempa T – CD Is Dead (S-X Remix) (Boy Better Know)
D Double E – Street Fighter Riddim (Dirtee Stank)
T2 ft Craig David – Love Like This (6060 Music Group)

Jam Hot: Tinchy Stryder – Gangsta? (4^th & Broadway/Island)

Janelle Monae – Tightrope (ft Big Boi) (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
Janelle Monae – Tightrope (ft B.O.B & Lupe Fiasco) (Wondamix) (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
Kanye West – Power (ft Dwele) (Def Jam)

Midnight Moment: Zinc – 138 Trek (Phaze One)

Zinc – Nexx (Zinc Music)
Swedish House Mafia ft Pharrell – One (Your Name) (Positiva)
Donae’o – I’m Fly (MistaJam Dubplate) (Zephron/My Ish)
Skepta – Rescue Me (Hervé Got This Buzz Remix) (3 Beat/Boy Better Know)
Kano – Get Wild (ft Aidonia & Wiley) (Bigger Picture Music)
Gyptian – Hold Yuh (Major Lazer Remix) (VP)
Sean Paul – Come & Get It (Big Ship)
Vybz Kartel – Party Night (Don Corleon)

Daily Dose of Dubstep: Weekend Edition
Sekklow – Be Alright (Suicide Dub)
Rusko & Reso – Lick The Lizard (White Label)
Magnetic Man – Mad (Columbia)
D.O.K & Sir Spyro vs Everything But The Girl – Missing (White Label)
DJ Fresh – Gold Dust (Flux Pavilion Mix) (Data)
Netsky – I Can’t Hold It (Hospital)
Caspa – Back For The First Time (ft D1) (Sub Soldiers)
Ramadanman – A Couple More Years (Hessle Audio)

Alicia Keys – Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready) (DnB Mix) (White Label)

Back on the radio this Monday at 7pm on BBC Radio 1Xtra

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]

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.

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:

Artist……………: Scorzayzee
Album…………….: The Starter
Genre…………….: Hip Hop
Release Date………: 11/12/2009
Year……………..: 2009
Quality…………..: 320kbps

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Tracklisting
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01. Underground
02. The Watcher
03. They Don’t Care About Us
04. Best I Ever Had
05. Better Not Test My Rhymes
06. Stay With Me
07. Diss Me On The Phone
08. Message
09. Time’s Up
10. They Don’t Care About Us Remix (Ft. Millz & Shifty Spirit)

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Playing Time………: 27:50
Total Size………..: 62.30 MB

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…

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

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.

Tomorrow, Dubstep vs The USA… Eve, Pharrell & more speak about Dubstep’s impact on the USA, DJ Plastician educates us about the “Dubstep LA” Mixtape, Rusko 1/2 hour guest mix rinse out & interview and the dopest ghost in town Caspa’s mini mix for you to download for free.