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BIG JIM

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About Me

I'm an old London Soul boy (Kilburn NW6) relocated to Co.Mayo in the 'Wild West' of Ireland....the scenery is wonderful, the music scene is WAK.Love my family, friends, good music and Tottenham Hotspurs. I'm also partial to a nice pair of Trainers and a bit of Carhartt !!!!Don't like to pigeonhole what I play....But it's safe to say that if it's got SOUL (in any shape or form) I'm gonna dig it!Currently trying to push future soul, REAL hip-hop, nu jazz and broken beatz and have previously had the pleasure of DJing in Dublin for Bodytonic, Hospital, One Track & Surface (warming the Dex up for for old friends Orin 'Afronaught' Walters (Bugz in the Attic Head Honcho) and Mr. 'Restless Soul' Phil Asher AND Ghetto Jacking and The Elbow Room Boyz.....

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My Interests

Trying to make stuff work in my studio, and in turn knock out the odd track. I also enjoy a bit of telly, the occasional look around the Internet and a good film. Oh yeah....Love Grafitti Art...was always a bit of a wannabee....hot on paper, not so hot on walls....nuff drips....Shit Paint lol!

I'd like to meet:

LIKE MINDED PEOPLE & lOVERS OF 'DA GOOD GROOVE'.

Music:

NUFF NUFF (an' in no particular order)....Marvin Gaye, James Brown (and all his Funky People), Gil Scott Heron, Herbie Hancock, Roy Ayers, Donnie Hathaway, Minnie Ripperton, Teddy Prendergast, Luther, MFSB, EWF, Soul II Soul, Saxon, Channel One High Power, Jama, Rapattack and Mastermind Sound Systems, Loose Ends, 52nd Street, The Young Disciples, Diana Brown and Barry K Sharpe, Massive Attack, Reel People, Lynden David Hall, Omar, Bambaata, Cold Crush, Eric B and Rakim, KRS-One/BDP, Schooly D, Original Concept, Public Enemy, Run DMC, LL Cool J, De La Soul, EPMD, A Tribe Called Quest, Ice T, K Solo, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, London Posse, MC Duke, Hijack, J Dilla, Madlib, MF Doom, Peanut Butter Wolf, Common Sense, Dwele, Visioneers, Slum Village, PPP, Sa-Ra, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Angie Stone, India Arie, Maxwell, D'Angelo, Afronaught and all Bugz Fam, Phil Asher and all Restless Soul Fam, 4hero, Kaidi Kat, NSM, Mark de Clive Lowe, Domu, Jeremy Ellis, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Jazztronik, Jazzanova, Recloose, Paul Weller, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, U2, Depeche Mode, The Human League, Japan, Yazoo, Soft Cell, Madness, The Specials, The Beatles, The Carpenters, The Mamas and the Papas, The Rolling Stones, Spencer Davies Group, The Who, The Kinks, The Wolfe Tones, MAW, Blaze, Camacho, Ron Trent, Todd Terry, Kerri, DJ Pierre, Murk, Basement Boys, Terry Hunter, Swing 52, 95 North, Mood II Swing, Morales, Spinna, King Britt, an all that used to inspire and continue to inspire....

Movies:

The Wanderers, The Warriors, Quadrophenia, Mcvicar, Tarantino, Martial Arts, The Goonies, Carlito's Way, Babylon, Walt Disney/Pixar, Saturday Night Fever, Wild Style, Tim Burton, Sin City, The Wizard Of Oz, Superfly, The Long Good Friday, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Midnight Express, Taxi Driver, Bill And Ted, Cheech And Chong, The Great Escape, Anything With Mickey Rourke, Gary Oldman, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn, Escape To Victory, Nightmare On Elm Street (One & Two), The Evil Dead And Shawshank....and NUFF NUFF MORE !!!!!

Television:

Match of the Day, Sopranos, Rescue Me, Oz, Father Ted, The Mighty Boosh, Peepshow, Only Fools and Horses.....and with the Kidz.....Keenan and Kell, Drake and Josh AND Dick and Dom in the Bungalow (RIP) !!!!

Books:

Mainly Biographies and Autobiographies....Marvin Gaye, Bob Geldof, Quincy Jones, Keith Richards and Charlie Richardson. Just got hold of Marc Almond's autobiography....should prove an interesting read !!!!!

Heroes:

My Dad, The Marvelous Marvin Gaye, Martin Jol, Juande Ramos, Gary Lineker, Hoddle and Waddle, Gazza (LEGEND), Berbatov, Beckham (You keep on proving em wrong son) Bruce Lee & Mickey Rourke

My Blog

GHETTO JACKING....

Gonna be spinning.... future soul, 'REAL' hip-hop, broken beat an' Ting for the Ghetto Jacking Boys....@ Rogue, Dame Lane, Dublin on Friday 07th July 2007Tis gonna be DOPE!
Posted by BIG JIM on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:36:00 PST

RESTLESS SOUL.....

Check out my 18 ACRE Mixes @....http://blog.restlesssoul.co.uk/Big up Phil and all restless fam!...
Posted by BIG JIM on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:16:00 PST

DAWNCAST....

Check out mixes by myself and my dear friend Alan Nous on our new podcast site....www.dawncast.comfor the very best in Hip-Hop, Nu-Soul, Future Jazz and Broken Beatz !!!!'DAMN FINE MUSIC GUARANTEED!'...
Posted by BIG JIM on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:27:00 PST

BODYTONIC....

Gonna be playing for the Discotonic Boyz on the 20th May 2006....@ ROUGE, 64 Dame Street, Dublin 2Expect to hear NUFF quality FUTURE FUNK, NU JAZZ, BROKEN BEATS, HIP-HOP, FUNK & RARE GROOVE....&nb...
Posted by BIG JIM on Fri, 05 May 2006 06:42:00 PST

FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS....

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT I WILL BE PLAYING ALONGSIDE (AND HOPEFULLY GETTING STONED WITH) HUEY AND THE CREW IN THE TF ROYAL THEATRE IN MY ADOPTED HOME TOWN OF CASTLEBAR, IN THE COUNTY MAYO LOL WILL BE RINSIN...
Posted by BIG JIM on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:01:00 PST

Things FINALLY starting to Happen....

Spent the weekend in the studio in Dublin with kindred spirit Mattay and got the bones of three tracks down....A bruk steppin' groove, a bruk/house thing and a Lazy Hip-Hop thing....Will pos...
Posted by BIG JIM on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 06:00:00 PST

SOUL INSIDE RADIO SHOW

Starting Saturday 25th March and then each and every Saturday, thereafter....Tune into Power FM (www.powerfm.org) between the hours of 4.00 and 5.30pm and catch THE SOUL INSIDE.... Hosted by...
Posted by BIG JIM on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 06:24:00 PST