Louise Foster-Key
Cardiff
D&B/Jungle DJ
Lubi J is all about the selections, whether it’s old skool or modern, atmospheric or dark and heavy, she loves a strong tune!
Based in Cardiff, she started off mostly playing soulful/liquid dnb back in 2000, heavily influenced by Fabio’s liquid funk and artists like Calibre, Carlito and Addiction, Bukem and the EZ Rollers.
Despite mostly playing liquid in the early days her love for jungle and the darker styles was always there and she would still pull out tracks from labels like Ram, Liftin Spirits, Metalheadz, V Recordings, Full Cycle and Renegade Hardware.
In the latter part of the 00s she discovered her love for disco and funk after being educated by her friend and artist Hoxe on the history of breakbeats in jungle. This led to a handful of local residencies playing funk & disco over the course of the next few years.
She then returned more prominently to playing jungle dnb around 2012 when Catapult Records (legendary record store in Cardiff) started putting on events in the unique Vaults venue.
In recent years she’s become more immersed again in the darker breaks and beats of jungle, drawing from labels like Function, Rupture, Samurai, AKO and Repertoire.
She’s held residencies and played at a number of different nights in Cardiff and over the bridge in the last 20 years, supporting a raft of the finest in the scene, including; Bukem, Calibre, Storm, Digital, Spirit, Total Science, Mampi Swift, Djinn, Roni Size, Break, Alley Cat, Randall, Klute and Doc Scott.
After feeling the void of modern jungle and heavier dnb in the capital city, the year 2022 brought the start of putting on her own events with fellow DJ, Electra.
Headspace was born and their third event in December brings the Rupture spirit to the Welsh capital for the first time.
In addition to Headspace events, Lubi J has recently started producing and plans to share more soon.
Follow:
Lubi J on Instagram: @lubi_jay
Headspace on Instagram @Headspace_cdf
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