Archive for March, 2010


DJ SPOTLIGHT: DJ CHAMBER

We caught up with NSB’s own DJ Chamber to talk about life, music, the Google technique of alias selection, Breakspoll victory and the future…

NSB: When did you first get into DJing?

CHAMBER: Glastonbury festival ’03! I was massively inspired by DJ sets from the Plumps and Erol Alkan (having had little exposure to electronic music before then) and knew straight away that this is what I wanted to do! Within a week of getting home, I had bought my first pair of decks (a rubbish pair of CDJ-10s) and was practicing daily.

NSB: How did you come up with your DJ alias?

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NSB BREAKSPOLL WINNERS

NSB Radio win best radio station award for the 3rd year in a row at the Breakspoll international breakbeat awards!

Thanks to all your votes, NSB won BIG at Breakspoll! NSB Radio bagged the ‘Best Radio Station’ award for the 3rd year running, NSB’s sister site, NuSkoolBreaks.co.uk, has once again been voted the ‘Best Website’ and NSB Radio DJs Ben & Lex, Richie Balboa and DJ Chamber won ‘Best Podcast’, ‘Breakthrough DJ’ and ‘Best Small Club / Event’ respectively. Not a bad haul!

A MASSIVE thankyou from NSB to everyone who voted for us!


Regrooved – Broadcast live from Melbourne, Australia

Live on NSB Radio:-

REGROOVED in Conjunction with Goodgroove Records is fast becoming one of the most best set vibed party going around, with Party Funk, Jazz, Hip Hop, Breaks, Dubstep and DNB all welcome that means you are welcome too.. With a massive list of Australian artist all taking part of this night REGROOVED has been lucky to have some of the best Producers and DJ’s around Australia come to rock the place.. With a massive line up coming into summer this party isnt stopping soon and now with Regrooved nights taking a hold in, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, New Zealand and Italy the parties are only gonna get bigger .

Smirnoff® presents Regrooved Audio Visual Party in conjunction with Goodgroove Records Regrooved has teamed up with Smirnoff, Zebra and DJ Warehouse to present the first Serato SL Video club night in Melbourne on Sunday 7th March at the Prince in St Kilda. The addition of custom visuals to the unique mash up style of Funk, Jazz Breaks, Hip Hop, Dubstep and DnB that is Regrooved will create a unique sensory clubbing experience not to be missed.

Headlining the party will be DJ Cheeba (Solid Steel), one of the UK’s biggest AVDJs, renowned for his technical ability and humour in delivering a video show like no other. Also bringing visuals into the mix will be Melbourne’s own Mr Nice & The Umalicious MCs and Nick Thayer, with DJ sets from Sly Players (Goodgroove Records, Uk), Boom Monk Ben (Solid Steel, UK), Citizen.com, Matty Blades, EGO and Zander…See you on the dance floor!

The sets we’ll be broadcasting are (UK times)
1100 – 1200 Sly Players
1200 – 1330 Mr Nice + MC’s (AV set)
1330 – 1400 Matty Blades + Citizen .com
1400 – 1530 Dj Cheeba (AV set)
1530 – 1600 Ego
1600 – 1730 Nick Thayer (AV set)

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GRAFFITI BREAKS @ THE RHYTHM FACTORY

Graffiti Breakz will be hijacking the NSB radio waves between the hours of 1am and 5am. Graffiti Breakz is now bringing the fight to Aldgate. Only we’re not resorting to violence and gun’s, The Graffiti Breakz battle will be fought on the Dance floors, across the canvases and through Microphones of many men, not to the beat of a marching armies drum but to deep bass, kicks, snares and high hats!