The Power of the Drop: Trip Hop and Drum & Bass Shook The World (Guest: Jason Randall Smith)

There was a rumble coming out of the UK in the early-1990s. With the heavy influence of hip-hop came new styles that changed the way many experienced the music they loved. From the early days of Jungle that birthed Drum and Bass to to Trip Hops genre bending sounds, the crew continues our musical journey to the UK with, guest, Jason Randall Smith of Radio BSOTS.

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Jason Randall Smith Bio

Jason Randall Smith’s longtime personal passions involve music appreciation, sonic curation, and media preservation. While attending the State University of New York at Albany, he volunteered at WCDB Albany 90.9 FM, hosting several radio shows as a DJ and producing promotional spots for the station. As a writer, Jason penned music reviews and long-form articles for Impose Magazine as well as podcast reviews for The A/V Club's Podmass column. In addition, his poem "A Lesson In Deterioration" was included in the book Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture And The Post-Soul Aesthetic by Mark Anthony Neal. Jason is the host and producer of Radio BSOTS (Both Sides Of The Surface), a podcast championing independent and Creative Commons music in a variety of genres since August of 2005. He is currently the music director at Bondfire Radio in Brooklyn, NY, where his curatorial duties help shape the sound of the station. Radio BSOTS has been broadcasting live on this station since February of 2015.

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