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About Jay RootZMy Journey into music started in 1990-91ish. By this time I was listening to hip hop, ragga, reggae. That year I met a group of friends as you do when you’re at school. One of my mates gave me a tape, said it was a hardcore mix tape recorded live at a rave called Fantazia; his older brother went to it and said the night was wicked!! I took the tape and on it said ‘Grooverider, Easygroove, DJ Ratty, and DJ Lisa. I listened to the tape and looking back on it that single tape changed my life and the way I perceived music. It was totally fresh and unlike anything I had heard before. You could feel the energy, the breaks the rumble of basslines and the M.C’s keeping the vibes bubbly. It was from then I started to follow UK underground musicAt this time significant changes were happening in the music. A lot of producers started using reggae samples and break beat drum loops became very popular bringing in the reggae and acid fusion. Not only were there changes in the music but the people listening to the music became more diverse. People of all different races, colour, creeds, social class, whatever, where raving together, which to me showed how powerful music can be and the way it can unite people in a positive way.So the scene started to split into Happy Hardcore and Jungle. Being familiar with reggae. It wasn’t just the reggae though it was the weighty basslines that caught me complimented by darkside breaks, love it!!Over the years I became more involved with the scene, everyone I knew, knew me because of Jungle music. I used to promote and host parties with friends who were DJing at the time. In 1997 I moved to London, Jungle had grown so much and the UK had another sound that was becoming popular and that was Garage. A few more years on Jungle had become that bit faster and more complex taking away the simplicity of Jungle and developing it to Drum and Bass. The development of Drum and Bass and the growth of UK Garage were good because it showed that the UK underground was thriving and diverse. By 2000 I was a bit lost in terms of music preference. Even though the underground scene was more popular than ever the music didn’t appeal to me in the same way anymore. DnB had become too hectic for me and the things that appealed to me about the music before had changed. Certain Garage tunes were hitting the charts making the scene more mainstream than underground.So it was that year I purchased my first set of 12’s. (Any other name just isn’t the same!). I started to buy allsorts of tunes Hardcore, Jungle, DnB, bits of hip-hop, Garage and Grime started its movement. Buying records started to become an expensive habit so I focused my purchases on Garage and Grime. Grime was good and became a good outlet for UK vocalists, spitters, rappers etc. Being a beats man and DJ, Grime for me became too M.C orientated and a lot of negativity was being associated with the scene. Over the years of buying tunes I started to develop my style of playing, buying tunes made by labels like Tempa, Road, Ghost, Horsepower, Bingo, Texture who were producing a darker side of garage. I never really heard DJ’s playing theses tunes till I started listening to DJ’s like Hatcha, Youngsta, Kode 9, Plastician on Rinse. Then the word ‘Dubstep’ started to get used so from then was when I said I’m a Dubstep DJ.I started going to FWD which was my information centre for the forthcoming years.Dubstep is fast becoming a global movement it crosses over a lot of genres and can be interpreted in a range of ways which means no matter what your background you can find something you can relate to or even like. I would describe my style of playing as a fusion of the reggae and acid vibe I was feeling in the early nineties and that fusion is where I DJ for BlakStarLine Dubsteppers.BlakStarLine Dubsteppers was started by the Admiral Kulture Blak who I met in 2006. He was working on Hip-Hop RnB projects when he had come up with concept of BlakStarLine. I suggested that he should come to FWD with me and check out the vibes. To say the least Kulture was feelin’. Over the next few weeks we started to talk more about Dubstep. I was looking for producers to start some projects with and I approached Kulture. He was very interested, we discussed the possibility of using BlakStarLine as our front and that’s when BlakStarLine Dubsteppers was born. We started to look for radio shows and started off on Axe Fm moved on to BassJunkees, Submuzik and are currently on React.FM.My aim as a DJ is to keep promoting UK Underground Music to the world through BlakStarline. The unity I experienced in the 90’s is something I would like to keep promoting and for me it was the reggae and acid fusion that was responsible for bringing people together and that is the style of Dubstep I play which blends well with the idealisms of the Original BlakStarLine.BlackStarLine was created by Marcus Garvey. His aim of BlackStarline was to unite people to achieve a common goal promoting positivity, peace, love and unity. BlakStarline Dubsteppers want to continue his work and promote his ideas through the music we play.-------------------------------------------------------
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