www.scratchnspin.co.uk may 20th news letter

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Welcome to the first edition of the weekly Scratch N Spin Radio Newsletter.


Scratch N Spin is officially one month old!

Thats right folks, Scratch N Spin radio has officially finished its first month of streaming, and look to have finished on a high note.
Not only has the station had over 1000 streams, weve also added a new wave of DJ's on the station.
Watch this space for more information on our new presenters, but expect a varied range of music hitting the station over the next few weeks.

Thanks to all for making the station possible and becoming such a success already, its greatly appreciated!

Wednesday Nights have changed!

Were pleased to announce a big change to Wednesday nights, as well as keeping Scratch N Spin star No More Shadows,
there will be three new faces expanding the new show air time from 6pm - 10pm BST. Expect a mixture of breaks and progressive from Boston DJ
Igor V, followed by some uplifting trance from DJ Vale. The Station then gets deep and dirty with The Shadow Lands,
Before moving over to some progressive and euphoric trance with DJ Jamie Shanley. The first Airing of all these new shows is set to be
on Wednesday 26th May.


FEATURED SHOWS

Some of this weeks shows to look out for:
(All shows are in BST format, PST= -7 hours)

DJ Mav - The Poppourri Hour
Friday May 21st 9PM - 10PM

Expect a complete mash up of Hip-Hop, Latin, Dance or any other genre of Music. When DJ Mav jumps on the decks, theres no rules and no limits,
Expect the Unexpected every Friday and Saturday Night from 9PM.

DJ Soma - Sonic Beaver Radio
Monday 24th May 7PM - 8PM

An immense hour of breaks brought to you from Canada, by DJ Soma, expect 60 minutes of the best breaks around, as Soma plays the latesy releases and
White labels, stay in for this one.

Sinister Breaks - Live Show
Monday 24th May 8PM - 9PM

Moving to his new slot on a Tuesday Night, Sinister Breaks takes us through the latest nuskool breaks and beats, expect the music to get twisted,
and revel in the deep basslines. A show not to be missed!


FEATURED DJ

Throughout future newsletters we will exclusively a DJ from the station, and ask their opinions and reccomendations.

This week we introduce DJ Null Space, who has only been with us a short period of time. His shows on the station involve a one hour set by himself,
Followed by a Guest slot for an hour, He has already brought us DJs such as JesseCobra and Raj Deep, and intends to bring even more fresh
DJ's to the Station.

Scratch 'n Spin: When did you first start DJing and what was your inspiration?

Null Space: I guess I first starting putting together mixtapes around '96, without quite knowing what I was doing. I was using 2 portable CD players and a Radio Shack
(or, as you say in England, "Tandy") 4 channel mixer and had never heard a proper DJ set or been to any dance events. It was mostly ambient and chillout stuff.
I just knew that I wanted to make a CD with the songs blended together seamlessly. DJing with turntables and a club mixer didn't happen until 2000 or so.
My inspiration has always been a deep interest in different grooves and sounds. Something draws me to them.

SnS: Have you always spun Progressive?

NS: No, I haven't. I started out "spinning" ambient/chill stuff, and then got into Trance. I still find some trancier stuff that I like, but I'm really into the more
Tribal & Progressive House tracks now. I don't really like pigeonholing myself into one genre since I play whatever I feel is a good track,
no matter what genre it claims to hail from. If it fits into my ever-evolving style, I play it!

SnS: Do you currently have guest or resident slots?

NS: Aside from Scratch 'n Spin, I'm currently unemployed at the moment. :(

SnS: What's the Progressive scene like over there (US) now?

NS: At the moment I can only speak for the Boston area. There's a lot of great music coming from the area's producers,
but the club scene is really at a standstill. Things are stagnant lately with the clubs in that the promoters are really going only for
Hip-Hop and NY Hard House. With John Debo and Ali Ajami no longer pushing Progressive in the big clubs (Avalon/Axis)
there's really no great want for the deeper sounds (which I think only increases the need). Of course, this is just the "popular" crowds.
he underground scene is still where it has been musically, but as far as events, the economy I think is influencing a big stagnation.
Hopefully with the economy getting better more people will be able to go out to the clubs and the scene will get better as a whole.

SnS: Any upcoming names/labels in the progressive genre that you know of?

NS: Wow, too many to mention. A lot of good production is going on right now.
Off the top of my head, I can think of LSM Productions, Fade, Baroque... labels that are already great and will hopefully only get better.
Producers that come to mind are Chris Micali, Steve Porter, Deep Horizons. Oh, and then there's the Shurhit Records crew of course! :)


SNS: Finally, you co-own Shurhit records with JesseCobra, who's also done a guest set on the station, how's that going and do you have any future plans?

NS: We're getting ready to officially release our first two records onto the masses. The first is JesseCobra's "The Fuse" with a remix by me on the flip.
The second is an absolutely great Progressive Trance track by Mindless from Sweden.
A Tribally influenced remix by himself is on the B-Side. Shurhit will be a great label, I believe, because we're really trying to pull some of the best unfounded
talent from all over the world. There's Simex from the Boston area also, M'Ocean from New Jersey, Tom Sawyer from Panama,
and many more unannounced producers that I really can't talk about openly at this time. Just keep an eye on www.shurhitrecords.com for all the latest details.

You can catch Null Spaces 'Boston Breaks Show' every Friday Morning from 3am-5am BST, or Thursday Nights 10pm-12pm EDT.


AND FINALLY...

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Until Next Week,

All the best,


The Scratch N Spin Radio Team
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