Holy Shit! There aren’t two better words to say when hearing a JACK BEATS track. These gentlemen’s jaw dropping introduction came through the Trouble & Bass released Boy 8-Bit ep, “Fog Bank” (buy it here), a track that made many heavy weight dj’s top ten list before it was even released for purchase by the general public. Since that release they’ve had a steady flow of top shelf, high quality remixes ranging from grime punk rapper, Trip, to The Black Ghosts and fellow bassmaster AC Slater (hear that on the crookers essential mix) and more. It makes one need to know who these super producers are and why are they so amazing.

Turns out Jack Beats are veterans to the scene with insane credentials. The duo is comprised of Dj Plus One from the Scratch Perverts and Beni G from Mixologists, both award winning turntablist crews from London and world renown djs. At 19 years old, Dj Plus One, won the 2000 Vestax DJ World Championship in Tokyo and placed 2nd to A-trak in the ITF World final in LA. A year later he went on to win the ultimate title, 2001 World DMC Champion, beating Kentaro and Klever, to become the first triumphant UK contender since 1989. Beni G is currently grime rapper Plan B’s tour dj and a former DMC & ITF DJ Champion and 2-time Urban Music Award (UMA) winner.

Even with credentials that amazing and awe inspiring they were able and willing to provide Trash Menagerie with an interview and the premiere of their remix of White Williams “Violator“!!!

sirhan: So you 2 are from scratch perverts and mixologists respectively but how do you come together and make “jack beats”?

Jack Beats: We come together to make jack beats through a mutual love of rave music, cups of tea and a fair amount of beer!

sirhan: Whats the inspiration? And who’s influencing you?

Jack Beats: The inspiration is hip hop and bassline based club music mainly- we’ve been hip hop and jungle kids for years- but we’re also big into our house and electro, dubstep and grime- we just like to put all those things in the pot and see what comes from it… Its a simple concept really.. Its not really so much who, but what- old school rave, 80s hip hop, dubstep, jungle are all big for us right now!!

sirhan: How are things going so far?

Jack Beats: Almost too well. Jack beats was an accident in all honesty. We started making some crunked hip hop type beats a few years back for a laugh- We got into hybriding that with the fidget and dubstep shit that we were feeling, and that formed the basis for sound we have now.

We chose a name we thought was fitting as an alias because we had a remix coming out and we needed to. Then we set up a myspace under that name, with no information on it- just music, in order to see if anyone actually felt the tunes…

We didn’t want any preconceived ideas of what we’d sound like as plus one and beni g – as we wanted to do something fresh, and different from what we were known for and we wanted honest feedback! Fortunately people seem to be really feeling it and we are busier than ever, and we’ve not even really got started yet. We’ve been fortunate enough to have had good support from key heads like boy 8 bit, touche and sinden, and that has really helped us.

sirhan: The remixes have been on fire, you playing shows? and when you do, what will be the set up?

Jack Beats: Yeah we’ve started to get shows booked in as jack beats, i guess cos our remixes have been bubbling away, although we never really started this as a means to be in the clubs, as we tend to live there anyway!! However it’s wicked to start playing out fully the sound we produce… since were both pretty busy with our other dj work, its only ever gonna be 1 of us doing the gigs though. We both push the boundaries as dj’s, for a living, so i guess regardless of who you will see playing as jack beats, you can be sure we know what we’re doing!!

sirhan: Where do you look forward to playing the most?

Jack Beats: Any gig with seb chew or martelo…fabric always a great place to spin too.

sirhan: Since Jack Beats is a duo any solo work you plan on putting out?

Jack Beats: Jack beats is a still side line project for us- so we’re both working full time on the other things we are affiliated with, and also now and again on solo projects- though there are no scheduled solo releases right now, just jack beats releases.

sirhan: What will the orginal work sound like?

Jack Beats: The sound we have through our remixes is the sound of jack beats- so expect the original material to follow suit… We are just aiming for it to be one louder.

sirhan: Tell me about Ahead of the Game?

Jack Beats: Ahead of the game is a label we set up originally as a stable for quality hip hop and grime music hybridized with other genres such as jungle, dnb, dubstep, house etc. We’ve had 3 releases so far, and we are planning more. So far its simply always been about putting out quality and not quantity with aotg- and we want every release to be really hot- so that’s why we’ve taken our time with it.

sirhan: Any producers or djs we should look out for?

Jack Beats: Boy 8-bit, martelo, fake blood, duke dumont, proxy, skream, caspa and rusko.

sirhan: Any funny stories?

Jack Beats: If you play fake blood records backwards on 45 they reveal his identity!

and as promised…

White Williams – Violator (Jack Beats Remix)

and for good measure they also gave us their remix of Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Does It Offend You, Yeah – Epic Last Song (Jack Beats Remix)