Listening to Music / My Kids / Design / Art / Buying Music / Discovering New Music / etc... etc... (not necessarily in that order! depends who's viewing my profile ;) if you catch my drift!!!)
Music
As SKB put it before me: "There are only two kinds of music - good and bad"... But if you really want some genres (in no particulary order): Deep House; Soulful House; Garage (As in US not UK); Broken Beat; Funk; NuJazz; NuSoul; D'n'B; Rare-Groove; Acid Jazz; Hip Hop... etc...
Movies
Boyz in the Hood (O-Oh Child - The Five Stairsteps - awsome track! couldn't believe it wasn't on the sound track); The Usual Suspects; The Shawshank Redemption; New Jack City; Leon; Alien and Aliens (ground breaking 1979!!!); The Godfather (first and second); Goodfellas; Highlander; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; Sin City; Pulp Fiction; The Cronicles of Riddick; Batman Begins; Kill Bill (The first one); Luck Number Sleven and something a little different C'etait un Rendezvous...
Boyz N The Hood (Trailer)
The Usual Suspects (Trailer)
C'etait un Rendezvous
Television
Currently: Top Gear (well until the return of once more...); Prison Break; Shameless... No more no less - don't do Sky there's more to live than TV - he say's being a MySpace geek lol - get a life Jalapeno :)p
Books
'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life' and 'How to DJ (Properly)' Bill Brewster / The Art Of The Flyer / Design After Dark / 100% Cotton / Los and Dos Logos (it's a Graphics thing!) Plus Authors: Dan Brown; Colin Bateman; Dean Koontz; Jack Higgins (Sean Dillion - kicks arse!)
Heroes
It would be quite a long list but i'll keep it short for now: George Clinton; Stevie Wonder; James Brown (RIP); Prince; Daley Thompson, Linford Christie and Carl Lewis - big into athletics back in the day; My bro 'SKB' love ya; and Love and Respect to all the peeps that get off their arse and follow their dreams...
About me: A discovery of music and the joy of vinyl from an early age thanks largely to my big bro! (Cheers SKB!), regularly hi-Jacking my old man’s prized Thorens turntable! My school to college years introduced me to: Hip Hop; 80’s Soul; Rare-Groove; Early House and Acid Jazz – with my playlist ranging from ‘Parliament’ to ‘Big Audio Dynamite’ and ‘Galliano’ to ‘Shut up and Dance’ and pretty much anything on the ‘Rebirth of Cool’ compilation series and the ‘Talkin Loud’ label. In 1988 I joined forces with two school friends under the collective name of ‘The 3 Beats’ – vibe controllers: AD; Mole (aka Toast) and Jammin’ (aka Steve Jalapeno)… playing the usual mates and friends of friends parties etc… then in 1990, as ‘The 3 Beats’ we made our radio debut for Paradise City Radio (PCR), a Jamaican run pirate radio station in Bradford (Love and Respect to: Pikey D; Red Dred; Fresh ‘n’ Ruthless and Soul Master Hazzy!) – playing the 'Apres Club Session', 3-6am each and ever Friday night/Saturday morning (till the fuzz shut us down! Old Bill Scarper! Luckily for us we didn’t loose our records!) droppin’ an eclectic mix of: Soul; Acid Jazz; Funk; Rare-Groove; Hip-Hop; House and Detroit Techno! The success of the radio show brought with it a series of guest spots in and around the Bradford and Leeds areas. A thriving underground club scene meant many a night at: New Edition; The Gallery; Back to Basics; Up Yer Ronson; The Cooker; The Warehouse (numerous club nights!). Then h’way to Newcastle to embark on my love of Graphic Communications and some great nights… with Fusion an awesome mix of Acid Jazz, Funk, Rare-Groove and cavorting! I managed to graduate with flying colours as well! Post College moved to Edinburgh then another job offer prompted a move back to England and relocated over to Preston that was 1994 and have been here ever since! Preston’s early days offered some quality nights: Cheeky Monkeys providing some of the finest house music around (a true Friday night mash up in the dirty sweat box on Cannon Street); the back room at Feel; in fact some great nights in 42nd Street with Nathan’s night (sorry mate forgotten the name of it!) and The Outbreak Collective etc… A quality weekend clubbing also meant a drive to Manchester: Hacienda; Electric Chair; Friends and Family; a drive over to Sheffield for Love to Be; Gatecrasher and Bed; a stop over in Stone and taxi to the Cannel Club in Wolverhampton; plus monthly trips darn south to London: Rotation, Camouflage, Ministry of Sound, Blue Note and Fabric! Changing times over a decade of awesome partying later and whilst clubbing in Manchester some three years plus ago, we decided that it was about time that Preston had an alternative night which catered for how we were livin’ and Jellybean (2003 and onwards) was born! On the August Bank Holiday 2003 the first Jellybean event was held at The Hog's Head, Preston – concept became reality... with early resident DJs: Dan Daiquiri; Juice Pear and myself mixing together on a glorious hot summer's day a free BBQ with a special blend of Soulful House, Rare-Groove, Disco-Funk and Breaks – keeping everyone groovin’ from mid-afternoon till way past the kid's bedtime... a series of events followed over the following 18 months with resident and guest DJs (Love and Respect to: SKB, Posh and Batan) and percussionists, transforming the venue with banners, drapes, smoke machines and projections… DJing on Unity FM in 2004, brought back memories of the early PCR days, and gave me the chance to showcase what I was about in terms of music variety and underground choice cutz… We’ll house you! (2005 and onwards) following the success of the Jellybean events we moved over to the newly built venue ’53 Degrees’ and celebrated our soulful housewarming with Sole Channel’s supremo, Alix Alvarez (NYC)… Another 18 months further on and the Jellybean night continues to embrace quality underground dance music and features guest DJs from the deep and soulful global house scene… A night truly all about great music, great people and great times… Tales of the funk! (2007 and onwards) Joining forces with the Sunday Soul Collective brings with it the concept of Supafly a strictly ‘non-house’ night, bringing back the funk-fuelled classics that inspired me in the first instance! With a combined DJ and vinyl junkie collective of 100+ years, we’re making Friday’s funky once more – Supafly featuring: Chris Da Mentalist; Kid Blast; Miz Diz; Simba; Matter; Steve Jalapeno and Nathan ‘The Hitman’ Hearn
Next Jellybean event - Jellybean vs Sosho... Saturday, 15th December @ Loft, Preston
Jellybean host a series of residents nights at Preston's premiere late night venue, Loft at Glovers Court, home to our previous killer after parties... with Neil Pierce, Dave Jones and Bobby & Steve.
Pre-Bar on the 15th December - Jellybean @ Hush with vibe controllers Steve Jalapeno and Nathan 'The Hitman' Hearn - 8pm till 2:00am Free Entry...
Tales of the Funk... Supafly Friday's
And for Saturday's...
Previous featured Jellybean...
Supafly on tour with Sol - Solset 2007
Have you been Jellybean'd? (BB takes no responsibility for his words or actions!!!)
Window licking awsome video!... (awsome track as well!)
This man has the skillz... (LL Cool J is hard as hell!)
Who I'd like to meet: George Clinton - Dr. Funkenstein
Hi Mr. Jalapeno, oh yes... it was really nice 2 meet U ... really good fun and cool set by the Supafly Collective!!! See U in New Castle guys... stay tuned! XXX D.H.
Hi Steve Jalapeno I hope your well? I hope you can make it to the return of "FEEL", the OFFICIAL AFTERPARTY of Radio 1's One Big Weekend. The count down begins. See ya there? Peace
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