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Welcome to Jason and Iyare’s home on Myspace where you can keep up to date with everything we’ve got lined up on the radio and everything else we are up to as and when it happens.

Firstly we are pleased to announce that we are going to be starting our brand new show on the UK and Europe’s favourite station: BBC Radio 2! The A to Z of Street Music premiered on Boxing Day featuring the best established artists plus the hottest emerging talent in street music. The second show is scheduled for New Year’s day plus more throughout 2008. For all the latest information add us as a friend to get messages and bulletins with all the latest info.

Also from January 12th The 6 Mix has a new look for 2008 as Iyare takes over the controls. Every week he'll be bringing you a headline mix from a big name DJ, a showcase mix from an up an coming artist and an archive mix from the depths of the BBC. The show is going to have a brand new look for 2008 and will be packed with the best music from across the board so make sure you check it out!

We have also launched our new Youtube channel, click the banner above to check it out.

Jason and Iyare are DJ’s, presenters and producers who make radio programmes for their own production company, the BBC and commercial radio.

Jason Mitchell is known in London's Hip Hop and RnB scene as a co-founder of the DJ team Twice Ez Nice in 1989 with DJ/Producer Ollie Twist. The Duo have DJ'ed at parties for the likes of Destiny's Child and Eminem.

Iyare studied Pop Music Studies in Leeds and graduated with 1st class honours. Returning to London he worked as a recording engineer mixing house tunes and promoting records with the CD Pool. In 2000 he joined Darkerthanblue as online music editor and brand development working on compilation CDs, club tours, talent competitions and online and music editorial. He has also made numerous appearances on the BBC Five Live show Fighting Talk.

Jason & Iyare started broadcasting together in 2001, presenting an hour-long show called The Presence on the Student Broadcast Network, playing Hip Hop, RnB, UK Garage and Dancehall for nine months until the launch of BBC 1Xtra.

The duo broadcasted the 1Xtra breakfast show every weekday from the station’s launch in August 2002, until October 2007. The show was a magazine / lifestyle show which covered everything from new black music, to news, current affairs and entertainment.

In 2006, they set up a radio production company called On It Industries, who currently produce programmes including the 1Xtra weekday M1X show, and various documentaries.

In 2007, they left 1Xtra to pursue other broadcasting opportunities. The A-Z of Street Music is their first programme for BBC Radio 2.

Iyare will be joining BBC 6Music in January 2008 to present the 6Mix show, and Jason continues to executive produce all of On It Industries output for 1Xtra.

The Jason and Iyare - At Large podcast is available every Monday and it features us going over the week’s most random stories and entertainment and discussing those everyday gripes that we all think about but never discuss. The podcast is available on iTunes (just click the iTunes banner on this page) and you can also listen to and download individually the most recent episode from our Myspace profile player above. If you're really clever or you have issues with iTunes go to http://www.atlarge.libsyn.com where you will be able to download the podcasts using the podcatcher of your choice.

Unfortunately our reign at the helm of the 1xtra Breakfast Show has come to an end. We'd like to send out a massive thank you to all our listeners who have supported us over the years; we love you all! Also a big thank you to everyone at 1xtra!

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