EMALKAY – WHEN I LOOK AT YOU
You know this song has to be special for me to be posting a YouTube video of a low res version of the track don’t you?
The Birmingham Dub Police representer passed through the 1Xtra studio tonight and killed it in his mix for our “Future Of Dubstep” night – we had him, 16 Bit and Lost in all spinning rather sick guest mixes. Will post the iPlayer link soon as its up. Until then, get ready to loop the above & fall in love!
GIGGS TALKS
A couple of weeks ago after it got it’s world premiere on my show in May, Giggs ft The Streets’ “Slow Songs” was my Jam Hot record of the week and I got the chance to catch up with the man of the moment on the phone from Atlanta. I started off by asking him who he’d been working with while he was out there:
GIGGS FT THE STREETS **EXCLUSIVE**
Last night my 1Xtra show was taken over by Mike Skinner aka The Streets. He brought the rest of his Beat Stevie family (Ted Mayhem & Magic Mike Millrain) and we had a great time: some laughs, some big tunes, we talked the twitter revolution, played the last ever skini-mix and a span a load of exclusives. All in all, a pretty hosh show. You can check the entire thing on the iPlayer here but we have to highlight the huge exclusive that Mike brought us:
Yes, Mike has produced a track for the ardest pon road Giggs and it got it’s world premiere on the show. Giggs ft The Streets “Slow Songs”
Here’s Mike talking about how the track came together:
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And here’s the track in question:
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This is by far my favourite Giggs track. What do you think?
INTRODUCING: MELANIE FIONA
Last night (25th March) I had the pleasure of up and coming Canadian artist Melanie Fiona performing live and exclusively on my 1Xtra show.
Melanie is signed to the same label that launched the career of Akon and her debut album “The Bridge” is due out later this year. There’s a huge buzz about her both stateside and over here – especially after her supporting Kanye West on the european dates of his Glow In The Dark tour.
She came with Jeremy, her guitarist and 3 songs – the current single “Give It To Me Right”, a great Beatles cover version and her second single “Ay Yo”. Check out the session and interview in full on the BBC iPlayer now. She’s damn good!
BENGA DUBPLATE RINSE OUT
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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SCOTT MILLS & CHAPPERS ON EGG SOLDIERS
From today’s Scott Mills show:
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Now come on Chappers, East Midlander to a Manc – you trying to tell me you’ve never enjoyed the joys of a nice runny boiled egg with soldiers with a side portion of hot buttered toast with beans on top? If not, you’ve never lived!!
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