UK BASS RADIO: January 2007 Newsletter

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Uk Bass Radio Newsletter: Jan 2006

Happy New Year all DnB headz!! Welcome to the first edition of the new Ukbassradio Newsletter. We hope you all take the time out to read through and tell us what you think. Obviously it’s a work that is always in progress and we welcome all feedback as long as it is constructive, whether it is negative or positive. There is loads to read and there are links to our respected sites too. Build a spliff, have a bong and enjoy.


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Focus on: DJ Aquari

DJ Name: Aquari

Location: Wiltshire/S.Wales

Genre: Liquid/Intelligent Drum and Bass


About You/History:

Aquari aka Ed Hodges fell in love with music at a very early age with artists of the early 90's. In 1994/5 He was given a tape by a friend of a Midsummer nights dream rave, and was hooked! Over they years my tapes had come and gone and cd collection growing rapidly he decided to give it a go for himself. He started with some cheap soundlab decks and a borrowed mixer and a few trance records, picking up beat matching pretty quickly he soon progressed to mixing different styles of music to the displeasure of his parents!

Aquari settled into the role as a Drum and Bass DJ in 2000, but still with his soundlabs holding him back his love for DJing faltered and he found other indulgences (Clubs and Drugs!) that took up his time and money.

Everything changed when he went to uni and got out of the small country town that had been strangling his creativity. He met another DJ, Tonic, who rekindled his passion for DJing. And with that itch needing a scratch he saved and bought a set of technics 1210's, from that moment Aquari has never looked back!

He now is a resident on UK BASS RADIO 7-8pm Mondays Be sure to check it out...

Experience/Clubs: Mainly parties, always on the look for gigs

Influences: Blues/Jazz, Oldskool, DJ Tonic, LTJ and others, too many to name!

Ambitions: To help to cure cancer, having fun on the way

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Top Ten in the Bag: Dj CQB

1. Better Believe, Benny Page
2. Pump Friction, White label
3. Some more, White label
4. Turn Down the Lights, Benny Page
5. Selection Dark, White label
6. Love and Happiness, Tommy Boy
7. Soul Patrol, Total Science and MC Conrad
8. Old Times, Hold Tight
9. Bunn the Sensi, Dj Heretic
10. Anthem, Benny G and Zeven



Ask the Dj…
This month Drexyl asks:
“I want to start buying records online, but I don’t know the best sites to use.
Can u tell me which ones you use and why?”

Dj Fat Barry says:
“The thing with online stores is that u have so much of a selection right from your very own home. I personally use 3 sites currently and subscribe to their Newsletter so that I know when their new releases are out. But it is like most
high street stores, some will have tunes that others don’t so you will need to look at each shop in turn. Especially, if you want that new release or promo. My current 3 sites are Redeye Records, Kaizen Records and Hard To Find Records. I hope this helps.”

If you have any questions you want answers to then email the address at the bottom and we’ll try to help you out.
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Funny Site/Link of the Month:
www.youtube.com - You can quite easly spend hours on Youtube

Serious link of the month:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/ - Petition the Prime Minister to Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy which could mean paying up to £1.35 per mile to get to work.

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Radio Schedule:

Monday
12AM - 4PM Archives / Free session [ Apply ]
4PM - 7PM Abuse (Mono and Strict), Violation
7PM - 8PM Liquid sessions with DJ Aquari
8PM - 10PM Nicky Freedom, Risky & Dr. Nast-E present Nasty Beatz
10PM - 12AM DJ Jackz

Tuesday
12AM - 5PM Archives / Free session [ Apply ]
5PM - 6PM DJ Huffey
6PM - 7PM Archives / Free session
7PM - 8PM DJ Ruffha: Liquid Soul Sessions
8PM - 10PM The Rupture Sessions with Mantra and Double 0
10PM - 12AM DJ Jackz and DJ Gustav

Wednesday
12AM - 6PM Archives / Free session [ Apply ]
4PM - 6PM Abuse (Mono and Strict), Violation
6PM - 7PM DJ MiNDSET "Filtering Silence"
7PM - 9PM DJ Catch
9PM - 11PM DJ Future presents The Federation Show
11PM - 12AM DJ Umbillacord with Evo and 4Dee

Thursday
12AM - 5.30PM Archives / Free session [ Apply ]
5.30PM - 6.45PM DJ Sky and Generic B2B
6.45PM - 8PM Into The Rainforest with DJ Roostah
8PM - 9PM DJ Typical
9PM - 10PM Ragman Jets
10PM - 12AM FΛT BΛЯRY™ presents LIQUIDation

Friday
12AM - 4PM Archives / Free session [ Apply ]
4PM - 5PM DJ Psycho-666
5PM - 7PM "Gone A.W.O.L." with DJ CQB
7PM - 8PM Free session
8PM - 9PM The Overload Show
9PM - 2AM DJ C-Jay and Kalaish present United Mindz

Saturday
2AM - 4PM Archives / Free session [ Apply ]
4PM - 6PM DJ G-Rat
6PM - 8PM DJ SparkEE, JungleRavers
8PM - 9PM NoiseMonkey's Bananas Jungle Show
9PM - 10PM Coming soon
10PM - 12AM Terraformer presents Midnight Resistance

Sunday
12AM - 2PM Archives / Free session [ Apply ]
2PM - 4PM Rollin'thund4 & DJ Deadly
4PM - 5PM DJ Mindset "Sunday Roast"
5PM - 6PM DJ Loonie
6PM - 7PM DJ Gwynstarr returns... coming soon...
7PM - 9PM DJ FuZion presents the Deceptive Audio show
9PM - 11PM Klippa and Random Swych with MC Dan Dark
11PM - 12PM DJ T-Base


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Upcoming Events and Announcements
If you have an event or announcement that you want over 3000 subscribers to see then email us at the address at the bottom and we’ll put it in the newsletter for you (subject to a few entries per newsletter).

Focus on: Dj Sparkee
DJ SparkEE started getting into the hardcore, break beat and jungle scene back in 1994. Having bought his first pair of decks (soundlabdlp3's) off a mate sparkee got practicing devoting much of his time mixing bigbeat, break beat to jungle, upgrading his decks to Gemini’s pt2000's then to the industries favourite technic 12.00's.

By 1997 sparkee was running free parties up n down the coast playing at community centres and local outdoor raves getting inspired by dj's such as krome and time, grooverider, hype, Andy c, mampi swift and many more which took sparkee to the large scale raves like slammin, skelter, united dance and others across the country experiencing that atmosphere that drum and bass creates got sparkee hooked and instantly knew where he wanted to see himself. Late 2000 Sparkee started playing in clubs in Portsmouth/Southsea for promoters such as Vurt and Future dark technologies getting the name heard while starting to build his profile sparkee got introduced to the production so he went to college studying music technology to venture into the production side of the industry.

Sparkee's sets are mainly up front drum and bass bringing a constant supply of fresh and exclusive tunes to any rave and also has been known for his jungle selection. July 01 he joined London Live And Direct running two hour solo slots firstly fortnightly then weekly teaming up with DJ Catch running the 'Catch and Sparkee show' spreading the word every Tuesday evenings. Carried the set for just over 3 years at live and direct which had been a big help with promotion world-wide as well as UK getting to work with L.L.A.D and local south London artists on the circuit making contacts and constantly networking. You can check sparkee playing on radio's such as ukbass, ukrumble, barebass, qualitybeats and various stations every week across the uk and having performed for promoters such as Vurt, Jungleravers, Redeyecorp, Breakin science and playing in clubs such as ministry of sound, coronet, mass , se1 and many others has highlighted sparkee as one to watch for .

Sparkee spends a lot of his time in the studio producing beats working alongside producers and vocalists in the industry. He signed his first record deal with LLAD RED with his tune 'Hacksaw' which is featuring on there first release and is currently in talks with other labels for more releases in the future. Using various software/hardware such as nuendo, cubase sx, reason with bare plug-ins, synths and samplers and has his own dubs.


Promoters performed for :
FDT, VURT, JUNGLERAVERS, MISSION, REDEYECORP, REDEMPTION, NEW NATION, BATTLE OF THE MC'S, ENERGYRUSH , MC CONVENTION , BREAKNECK , LLAD , UNSOCIAL AUDIO , BREAKIN SCIENCE , MOTIVATION , UK SHAKEDOWN,SUBZERO,RINSED,BASSED OUT and others

Venues played at :
EQ, SUBWAY, FROG ON THE FRONT , ITS ALL GOOD, GOLDSMITHS, SE1, BACCUS, SOUTHSEA PIER, ALBERT TAVERN, MINISTRY OF SOUND, MASS, STATION, CORONET, VANILLA, MUD CLUB,THE FRIDGE, HAVANA and others

Radios played:
LONDONLIVEANDDIRECT, UKRUMBLE, QUALITYBEATS, BAREBASS, UKBASS, ETERNITY, CC-RADIO, FLIGHT FM, SWITCH FM,WORLD FM, REPUTATION FM

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Upcoming Birthdays in January:

Dj CQB on 4th Jan

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Attention all up and comings Djs and Artists!!

We are a proactive site and are always looking for new talent for the station. So if you think you can mix, or you have put down a track that you think we could play on air, then follow these simple steps.
1. Contact us at the email below telling us what you would like to submit.
2. If you submit a mix then it should be between 45 and 60 minutes long, with a track list as much as possible.
3. Send us the link to the download and we will get back to you.

Feedback and Suggestions:

Don’t forget to put your ideas, questions and announcements into us at info@ukbassradio.co.uk


Peace out!!
CQB

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