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Circa. 2006 when a new wave of beatphreak producers like Dimlite and Jneiro Jarel were beginning to breath new life into their genre of choice, BTS Radio was my main port-of-call for keeping in touch with all things Hip-Hop. Launched in 2003 by Andrew Meza as a local college show, the popularity of Meza's project snowballed alongside its cultural significance, especially when the featured mixes became available online for a global audience to consume.

Halfway through one of Theo Parrish’s sets at his London residency it became apparent that he was frustrated, most probably because the atmosphere had nosedived and the crowd were near-enough stagnant. So… In a rare expression of sympathy, Theo’s warp-speed Jazz digression faded away, and after a brief pause the warm chords of Flying Lotus’ ‘Tea Leaf Dancers’ emerged to the relief of the Parrish faithful.

It's nice to see Stacey 'Stac' Dowdeswell getting some of the limelight. Stac was working by day as a record plugger for Kudos Records when she decided to take the plunge and get cracking on her own recordings. Whether she kept those recordings so simple out of necessity is a moot point, but it just so happened that those acapellas she posted on MySpace attracted the attention of the oddball genius producer Prod, who contacted her to suggest he take her songs and do something with them. The result of this was 'Balls Bounce', which Stac says makes her 'go a bit sweaty'.

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Listen to Glory (remix) here.

Broken beat producer/DJ/label runner Domu has posted this extraordinarily sad and honest blog:

Ask most musicians to describe their own sound, and you’ll most likely be met with a rueful smirk, some awkward non-committal mumblings if you’re lucky.

When I ask this particular producer the dreaded question, though, he takes a deep breath and hits me with this:

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Listen to a snippet of Blue Daisy's remix of Callin'