Features, Music August 16, 2010 By Lily Moayeri

     The producer turned MC has been working in the grime scene, producing records for a variety of artists and functioning as a member of numerous crews, all the while keeping good relationships with artists that are infamously at odds with each other. “I was an early team player,” Jammer says. “I was one of them people with a studio from early days. Ninety, ninety-five percent of the artists came to my studio to record. I was part of them crew for a matter of time. All of the people that are around, I was working alongside them.”
     Now in his mid-twenties, Jammer is still working out of the studio he set up in the basement of his parents’ home in the East London district of Leytonstone. The studio is aptly called “The Basement”. After six years in the scene, Jammer began working on his MCing style, and a decade since his start, his debut album, Jahmanji, is ready.
     A perfectly balanced amalgamation of American rap and Jamaican dancehall filtered through UK rave sounds, ranging from breakneck hardcore to cellar-bound garage to sweaty drum ‘n’ bass, Jahmanji is the quintessential grime album. Jammer rushes through his rhymes at warp speed, incomprehensible for the most part, but sounding nevertheless convincing.
     Jahmanji follows Jammer’s series of mix-tapes Are You Dumb Volumes 1-4. These mix-tapes — primarily featuring original material — showcase his skills, both musically and lyrically. Extending the aural to the visual, Jammer is also behind the Lord Of The Mics 1 and 2 DVDs, which showcase high-profile MC clashes on the microphone.

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