“If you compare it to the scene over in Europe it’s still quite young,” he says. “Even compared to America there’s so much controversy at the moment because it’s such a young scene. People have heard of it but they’ll just jump on the first thing they come across and what’s popular. It takes a long time for a scene to be established, especially in the more underground genres, for people to support.
“Australia’s great, it’s a mish-mash of everything really. There’s something going down with most genres, drum and bass has its following in a couple of cities and Melbourne’s really into the house thing with some really cool underground house clubs.”
Uberjak’d has been exploring each city’s scene on the Ministry of Sound Clubbers Guide To 2013 Tour, a project that poses it’s own challenges he says.
“It’s a pretty lengthy process because you’ve got about a month or so where you select the tracks you want on there and send them off to Ministry [Of Sound]. There’s a lot of ins and outs on the legal side of things with the label and what you can actually get on the disc, what they want to get on there and what I want to get on there. Once that process is done I guess it takes only a day or two to get it done, putting the mix together. That’s the easy part, getting the mix together.
“There are a lot of Aussie tracks on there as well, which is wicked, like J-Trick and Reece Low, their most recent collaboration Higher Ground. Djuro’s remix of Trumpsta, which has been doing massive things in my set over the past couple of months, as well as my latest single Gash King, which is wicked I got that on there.”
Uberjak’d isn’t happy resting on his laurels either with plenty of releases on the way, including his latest EP in the past week. “I’ve got lots of stuff coming out over the next couple of weeks actually,” he says. “The Bomber EP on Mixmash is going on Beatport, and that’s a two track with Bomber and Bump Dat, which are two tracks that have been sitting on an SD card in my computer for way too long so I’m glad they’re out there. I think I did Bump Dat, like the first early versions of it, a year and a half ago and pretty close to a year for Bomber as well.”
BY RYAN BUTLER
