Jay Cunning has taken some time out from his busy schedule to chat to us about the up and coming Sub Slayers room at original rave night Rage, the new Yoof single and to give away some free tickets and track!

Hi Jay thanks for taking the time to answer the questions.

Why did you set Sub Slayers up?
I wanted to capture and develop a new direction for breakbeat, I wanted to fuse the rawness of dubstep and the energy of breakbeat all in a jungle fashion.

What catches your ear when looking for a new artist?
They gotta fit that Sub Slayers sound, when I hear a track that’s right I scope them in!

This coming Sunday sees the biggest line up of Sub Slayer artists in one room. What can the crowd expect?
A wall of bass colliding with the harmonious battering of beats and jungle vibes. Standard Junglist mahem.

How does it feel that nights like Rage, who pretty much founded clubbing as we know it, are welcoming the new sound with open arms?
It’s an amazing honor and great that Rage, wannna come back and fully support this new sound along side their roots and to be honest, who better to do it with!

There has been a big buzz over the label in the last 8 months. Where have your main areas of support come from?
I hate these kinda questions as you can never do justice to the amount of support we’ve had since starting and if I tried to I’d be here allnight naming them! But I’d better give you something so here are some of the highlights: Sub Focus playing our tunes live on Radio 1’s tour, hearing DJ Hype’s playing our releases in his sets, having the likes of Brockie & Funky Flirt call up our Kool London show biggin up the tunes, and getting props from DJ Phantasy live on Rinse FM. Toddla T, Kissy Sellout, Ras Kwame, Jaguar Skills, DJ Fresh, Skream, Bassnecta, KraftyKuts, Pendulum, Kutski, Dub Police, Radio 1 among too many others have been big supporters. Generally though what we’ve been doing has been turning all kinds of heads and in the grandscheme of things we’ve only just begun.

The single has an original vocal. Will we be seeing more of this than the tried and tested jungle samples?
Yeah for sure, you have to dip into the old to get the vibe but it’sequally as important to get fresh new flavors in there to push the music forward.

How did Yoof and Jah Mirkle end up working together?
They met at a local bingo night in Bognor Regis

Where do you stand on the future jungle tagline? Do you think it has the legs to carry itself outside of breakbeat?
Names names names, can’t get bogged down with that shit otherwise Imay as well be a politician, but do I believe in what I and the Sub Slayers artists do, you fuckin bet I do.

Here’s how to win a pair of tickets to Rage, on Sunday 6th May @ Heaven in London:

To win either:
1 – Post who’s EP is out NOW on Sub Slayers on their Facebook page
2 – Do the same on Twitter using #SubSlayers

The new single from King Yoof Feat Jah Mirikle is out now:
King Yoof ‘Warrior Charge ft. Jah Mirikle’

Here’s a cheeky little freebie as well, a reworking of the Subnation classic ‘Scottie’

Download by clicking the title below:
Subnation ‘Scottie (King Yoofs 2012 mix)’

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Cold enough outside to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, things at The Big Chill House were beginning to warm up! Holding back no punches Life Support Machine hosts room deux in the only way they know how. To kick things off Julie-Anne and Fifties take to the decks with some jackin’ tech that got the floor jumping!

Round 2 saw headlining duo Diverted give us a treat with some hands in the air beats from yesteryear followed by LSM’s chief editor Dave ‘No Hands’ Clough team up with Joe Bot for some bad ass breaks. Last, but by no means least, Kid Chameleon VS Casual Breakin dished out the bass heavy WTFEVER for the grand finale of what was an excellent night!

Thank you to everyone who came and rocked out with LSM as they unleashed their brand of funk fuelled party mayhem on the unsuspecting public at their debut event at The Big Chill House, London! Stay tuned for the next fun-filled instalment…

Yes, yes people! Crazy news! On March 31st, the worlds no.1 NuFunk label, BombStrikes comes to London’s Big Chill House, Kings Cross and hosting room 2 is… Yours truly! LifeSupportMachine.co.uk!

Big Chill Presents… Bomb Strikes & LifeSupportMachine.co.uk!

BombStrikes SoundSysterm
Big Chill House, London, N1
Saturday March 31st 8pm-4am
Free Entry All Night Long

Room 1 – BombStrikes SoundSystem
Featurecast
Mooqee
Pimpsoul
Jimi Needles

Room 2 – LifeSupportMachine.co.uk
Diverted vs Mr No Hands
Deep Trojan vs JoeBot
Julie-Anne vs Fifties
Kid Chameleon vs Casual Breakin‘

Funky / Beats / Breaks / Bass – 9pm ’till 4am

More info on the Big Chill House website!

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This tune by Breakspoll 2011s ‘Best New DJ’ winner, Chamber, seamlessly blends hip-hop and country and western to create a new form of toe tapping, banjo strumming, barndancing, ho-downing music.

Download by clicking the title below:
Barn Beat FREE DOWNLOAD

He is currently running a competition over on his Facebook page where you, yes YOU could win a free ticket for Big Beat Reunion in Bristol this Friday – featuring the likes of Cut La Roc, Peo De Pitte, Neurodriver, Rektchordz, Freerange DJs, Chamber himself and many more. Follow this link for instructions on how to enter:

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Saturday nights must go to late night soiree and we’ve got tickets to give away! Read on…

After two sell out nights at XOYO, The Plump DJs return for an eagerly awaited third instalment! Their fresh electro-bass vibes and classic beats are winning over the streets of Shoreditch and the club is being celebrated for its full on party mayhem. The line-up represents artists on the forefront of the cross-genre, dance floor friendly generation.

Room Two will be turned upside down and inside out by the mischief making, music bloggers at DRM RLL PLS.

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Londoners! Get funky at the Big Chill House this Friday 11th, with DJ Food, Mister Sushi, the Rockit Science crew and many others…

“Friday November 11th sees 44 and Rockit Science take the Big Chill House reins. It’s been a while since we donned our musical hat at this establishment, to mark the occasion we’ve invited one of nicest guys in electronic music along for the ride, DJ Food.”

“A long standing member of the Ninja Tune family and always a man to think outside of the box when it comes to DJ’ing and producing. Famed for his eclectic masterful DJ sets, he can usually be found touring the world and playing to festivals across the land. To have him down to play such an intimate setting is surely a treat.”

FREE entry all night. We know you like free!

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And what a night it was! I always look forward to my excursions to London. It is a gathering of people from all over the world who are there who are there for one thing and one thing only – to party together to dirty, dirty beats! We had people from Ireland, France, Wales and Australia all crammed under one roof at London’s secret gem – The Star of Kings.

From outside the bar looks like any old bar in London but when you step inside the magic happens! Greeted by familiar faces and boutique deco, we are quickly chaffered to the stage where a Dita Von Teese style stripper in spangly blue outfit proceeds to give Mark a birthday strip – poor Pember didn’t know where to look (yeah right!)

Business over and done with, The Star Of Kings unveils it’s hidden treasure – possibly one of the grimiest basements I have seen in many years of raving! Upstairs was pumping out the techno whilst downstairs is all about the tech-funk where Rektchordz, Dylan Rhymes and Meat Katie delivered lashings of filth as sweat dripped down the walls. We had ladies dancing in PVC, and I saw one girl had even abandon her crutches in the corner as she lept to her feet to dance! musical healing? I guess so!

Punter, designer and DJ; Matthew Miles adds:

As always lot49 delivers. It was well worth the trip down from Wales and the music, was some of the best I’ve heard played this year. The crowd were up for it and made you feel more than welcome…

That says it all really! BIGupz and thanks to the Lot49 Crew for putting on a quality party – we wait in great wait in great anticipation for the next one!

Words: Louise O’Donnell @ juicebox.org.uk

Photographs: Matthew Miles

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