I hardly ever give away my mixes online (you can hear 20 minutes of me in the mix every two weeks on my Podcast) but today I felt like recording this special one featuring some of my favourite R&B tracks from 2006/2007.

R&B around this time (late 2000′s) was what inspired me to pursue a career in DJing. Hearing it mixed on the radio would get me all excited and then all of a sudden Pitbull and David Guetta started to ruin things for everyone.

This mix features only a very few of my favourite tracks from back then, maybe I’ll do another one soon.

Tracklisting:
Black Buddafly Ft. Fabolous – Bad Girl
G-Unit – I Like The Way She Do It
Megan Rochelle – Betcha
Ne*Yo – Sexy Love
Nina Sky Ft. Rick Ross – Curtain Call
Ryan Leslie – Diamond Girl
Talib Kweli – Hot Thing
Amerie – Why R U

Listen/ Download:

Now, if you’re willing to start your weekend off a little confused and are ready to say “err, what on earth was that” then please press play on the video for Kesha’s latest offering Sleazier 2.0 the remix featuring Wiz, T.I, Weezy and Andre 3000.

Yeah, honestly I don’t understand either.

On one of the UK’s biggest chat shows was this ginger haired superstar last night, yes, Ed Sheeran. The 20 year old, 4 times Brit Award nominee performed his new single Drunk and no doubt impressed a whole load of new fans making him more popular than ever.

Here is another one of my guilty pleasures which I’m not afraid to admit to you, the world.

So… Spongebob Squarepants. Yes, that loveable yellow square who lives in a pineapple under the sea – you know the one.

Despite this being deemed as a kids cartoon there is something so likeable about this yellow sponge. The situations he gets himself into, the good morals he has and sticks to and his relationship with his friends – god that makes me sound so sad but it’s all the reasons why I love this sponge.

In a way I’m sure this cartoon was really made for the older audience or am I just immature, actually I already know the answer to that.

So there you go, I admit it, I love Spongebob Squarepants. Long live that sponge.

This has to be one of my favourite scenes from TV in the world. The Office is my favourite programmes of all time, so simple, so so clever and hilarious on every level.

On Sunday night I was back hosting at the monthly One Mic show at Queen of Hoxton, London. As always there was a whole load of brilliant talent waiting to show the crow what they’ve got and some of them had a lot to show off about!

The line up was Marvin Ambrosius, ID & Friends, Marie Dhalstrom, Beckwith and Kieron Boothe.

I’ll be back on hosting duties on Feb 19th.

Rising star Cynikal has very kindly given away another track for us to download and embrace. This time he jumps on a Rick Ross instrumental and give’s it a Cynikal refix.

So gutted I missed out on this show from Childish Gambino who was performing in London this week. Here is the performance of the beautiful All The Shine with a helping hand from the UK’s rap king Sway.

Well this is interesting. Simon Cowell aka Mr Talent Show has teamed up with the Smith’s (Will Smith and his wife Jada) Overbrook Entertainment.

Simon has said that:

DJs are the new rock stars, it feels like the right time to make this show.

Hmm. By DJ’s being the new rock stars does he mean people like David Guetta who is more of a producer who mimes behind the decks or REAL DJ’s like Jazzy Jeff who have turntabalist skills? I just bloody hope it’s the second option otherwise it will be actually a really boring watch.

Any DJ friends signing up then? I think I may just give it a shot, though I did sign up for the first series of Britains Got Talent and got through to the first round of the producers, after I explained the idea of DJing live in TV I didn’t hear back, clearly they’ve had a change of heart and think it could work.

No other deets of the show have been announced but from reading the press release Syco seem sure that this will be a world wide success – time will tell.

STA Travel sent three mates on a mission to cram 44 days, 10 countries, 38,000 miles and 18 flights into one minute of sublime travel movie making. The result? MOVE — one epic journey and the experience of a lifetime for Andy.

SO. GOOD.