FUNKY LEMONADE PRESENTS - JAGUAR SKILLS

Funky Lemonade is back at The Scott Arms and this time we have a HUGE one!

JAGUAR SKILLS will be gracing the decks with a 2 HOUR SET!

Not all heroes wear capes. Some of them wear masks and obsess about music at a painfully nerdy level...

Meet Jaguar Skills; part man, part mystery, ALL pop cultural encyclopedia. Here is a human being who has taken the technical art of DJing to such intense dexterous levels he can weave fullnarratives into club sets without ever losing focus of the groove. Here is a human being who won’t just be able to identify a sample, he’ll source the date and the studio it was recorded and the musicians and engineers behind it. Give him enough time and he’ll find out what they had forbreakfast that day, too.

Here is a human being so driven by a hunger for the most miniscule musical details that it’s characterised, influenced and inspired every single event that’s happened in his life since his teens.

First came his time as music journalist, launching Downlow-one of the UK’s earliest hip-hop magazines-and amassing a full editorial and publishing team before the age of 20. A wild ride that placed him in eye of the perfect hip-hop storm during one of its most golden ages, it triggered an ambitious trip that continues with the same full throttle sense of sonic activism to this day... As an artist, DJ, producer, curator and archivist and so many other high profile roles in between. It's a trip where you’re just as likely to see him tour with The Prodigy as you are see him making Netflix theme tunes Romesh Ranganathan or writing entire scores to movies that only exist in hismind, with some of the most respected players in soul and funk. He’s told full musical histories onevery radio station worth waving an aerial at without so much as saying a word. He’s been invited into record label vaults and given access to recordings and materials that no one knew even existed. He’s played on some of the world’s biggest stages and soundtracked the entire entertainment spectrum from catwalk fashion to comedy... Can you think of any other DJ whose CV includes being resident for Jade Jagger’s exclusive parties and making monkey-themed mixes with Ross Noble?

Joining so many musical dots you’d swear his life was magic eye picture, the list of credits,collaborations and creative accomplishments this man has amassed since his first DJ set in 2002 isendless and an attempt to list theme comprehensively has the same dizzying effect you get whenyou stare into deep space and ponder the meaning of life. Whether it’s producing Lupe Fiasco’s breakthrough hit ‘We Love You’ in 2006, creating a brand new KRS-One banger from an old forgotten acapella in Nervous Records basement (‘Big Up New York’) in 2014 or his most recentHip-Hop Timebomb project in 2023,hip-hop’s 50th anniversary (an opus that takes his hunger for detail to outrageously nerdy new levels), this human being consistently, categorically and continuously pushes his passion for music to the most extreme levels he possibly can... And for no other reason but out of pure love, nerdy obsession and devout celebration of culture. The man, the mystery, the encyclopedic knowledge continues..

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