I was involved within the Oxford music scene for the last 6 years, mainly playing Drum and Bass crossing the spectrum (depending on where and who i'm playing for) over my time spent playing out as a DJ. This has included playing sets for such nights as Source, Hit & Run, Kinetic and HQ warming up for the likes of Cynatific, Flight (1xtra) and Alley Cat, as well as playing for over 3 years on the Scandinavian internet radio station leetradio. Many of these sets have been played with my back to back partner in crime DJ Rogue who now has his own radio show on Oxford's 107.9fm Friday nights 1-3am. MC Mantmast would often take on host duties for our shows and he is now touring the UK with numerous bookings at festivals and top D&B events.

I also found that through years of being a punter at club nights, my love of house, electro house, techno and breaks naturally developed further. After having dabbled with playing house when I first moved to Oxford in 2002, I took that direction a lot more seriously over the past few years, mainly due to the surge in exciting sounding underground house and techno.

Within months of building up a sound & style of my own I quickly found myself bagging slots with the legendary Oxford promotion teams Simple and Slide as well as for nights such as the exciting Eclectric playing warm up sets for the likes of Brodinski and Lee Mortimer. All three nights have had rave reviews in mixmag's pages. I also play hip hop and dubstep and have run my own dubstep night for the 'Love Music Hate Racism' organisation.

I'm always keen to get my grubby hands in various underground musical pies and I'm not one of those DJ's that can play a solid hour or two of one style of music. I like to mix it up and play for the crowd, knowing that any type of music no matter how good can get stale after too long - so I mash up sounds, styles and genres and try to keep the interest levels going.

I've recently moved to Brighton and I'm looking to get involved within the music scenes I love in my new South Coast surroundings.

Below are the main nights who I have DJ'd for. There have been many others but these are the noteworthy one's who I feel are pushing music forward in Oxford.

Simple (Massive house promoters getting bigger and bigger by the minute)
Kinetic (Oxford's premier Drum & Bass outfit)
Slide (9 years of pushing house to the masses featuring some of the biggest names in house and techno)
Eclectric (Well established student led underground house/electro house/techno/minimal night)
Source (Oxford's longest running D&B night)
Love Music Hate Racism (Promoted a dubstep/breaks/D&B fundraiser for this organisation)
Republica (One of Oxford's biggest hard dance/underground dance music promoters)
Hit & Run (Oxford and Manchester's biggest student D&B and Hip Hop promotion)
Get Funked (Unique night spanning everything from broken beat to electro house)
EDMS (Student promoters playing various genres in various venues across Oxford)
Blunted (Hip Hop stalwart within Oxford and now Brighton too)
HQ (Long Standing monthly D&B night for the discerning listener)
Drumbabydrum (Warm up sets for the likes of Cyantific and DJ Flight from 1Xtra)
Project Storm - (Played a dark breaks & house set for these hard dance big guns)
In:Motion (Hosted a room of Hip hop & D&B for Banbury's largest underground promotion team)
OX4 (Co-promoted and played at this popular night for 6 months)
Leetradio (Scandinavian internet radio station - for which I played monthly slots for 3 years)
Fresh & Funky (Regular Friday nights at the Thirst Lodge venue)
Oxford:Underground (Rising fortnightly Hip Hop & D&B night)
Filling The Gap (Up and coming UK Hip Hop night)
Future Funk Formation (Short-term but popular night held at various venues in Oxford)
Compound (Collective of DJ's and MC's running occasional nights)
Mixed Futures (Student DJ society promoters)

James Steevenson (or more commonly known as) Jibba.

www.virb.com/jibba

dj_jibba@hotmail.com

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