As a DJ Jamz weaves between Eclectic, Broken Beat, UK Funky and Global Sounds. She has graced the stages at Sonar, Parklife, All Points East, Glastonbury, Boiler Room Festival, Outlook, Kala, Lovebox, Gala, Lost Village, We Out Here, Lost & Found, Warehouse Project and is no stranger to the European circuit with regular slots away including Berlin, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Budapest, Barcelona, Porto, Paris, Amsterdam and Oslo. Jamz’ melting pot of club sounds can be heard in her monthly mix series CLUB JAMZ. Jamz has hosted DJ sets with DJ MAG and Keep Hush and had her debut RA podcast in 2021 showing her journey through DJing.
Hosting a weekly specialist show on BBC RADIO 1XTRA (winning an ARIA in 2021) which Jamz describes as “a musical journey, where you’ll discover the very best in emerging alternative R&B, new-wave Jazz, leftfield electronica and Indie”. Jamz is a tastemaker and has shown many artists to radio, in doing this Jamz has confirmed her weekly Saturday daytime BBC 6MUSIC show. Jamz also graced our TVs co-hosting the music show Jazz 625 on BBC FOUR alongside Moses Boyd in October last year.
Also the host of the British Council’s weekly radio show SELECTOR, Jamz dives deep into the underground UK music scene and shares it globally in over 30 countries around the world – across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia – to over 4 million international listeners.
In 2018 Jamz founded FUTURE BOUNCE record label and events brand, signing exciting talent from her world, including Melle Brown, Ted Jasper, Swsh, Joe Turner and Tungz, who have received media attention from Annie Mac, New Names, Mistajam Jam Hot, BBC Introducing Hot List, Music Week, Colors, Notion, Hunger and more. 2021, Following a successful series of Club focused releases, Future Bounce will be releasing a vinyl compilation in 2021. For events what began as a radio show on Reprezent Radio soon became a monthly club night at Birthday’s, Dalston in 2016. The popular parties had line ups featuring the likes of Branko, Roska, Addison Groove, Full Crate, Mina, Star Slinger, Salute, Zed Bias & more – Future Bounce is looking to reach more cities and festivals with a killer stage set up and acts to follow.
A keen agent for change, Jamz created DIY HANDBOOK – a spotlight on amazing young people building their own boss careers, highlighting women and people of colour. Originally a radio feature, this has now become a podcast series hosted by Jamz along with some amazing guests. The first series out this year, consists of informal chats with guests around topics building a team, rejection, the power of no and ownership.
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