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Soul of Man chats to I Like Music

Soul of Man are Justin Rushmore and Jem Panufnik who together set up the legendary Finger Lickin' Records in the late nineties. Having been at the forefront of the international breakbeat scene since its early days, Soul of Man have continued to throw handfuls of funk fuelled breakbeat stormers into the open arms of the crowds without holding back. I Like Music caught up with Justin to chat about making tunes, fancy dress and taking mushrooms wearing fruit based hats.

"I Like Music because… it triggers lots of memories of good times in life." JUSTIN RUSHMORE, SOUL OF MAN

ILM: You're playing at Chew The Fat with Atomic Hooligan, the Troublestock charity event to support Paul Arnold. What have you got in store?

Justin: Well it's all a bit jam packed. There are a lot of DJs and not a lot of time to express what you normally do. I'm doing kind of a back to back with Atomic Hooligan, in terms of me doing half an hour then he'll do half an hour. Because I'm playing at peak time, I'm playing at 1am, every Trainspotter, every DJ and raver will be there, so I'm trying to get a load of new tunes and work out a very up there, having it, rave type set.

ILM: Chew The Fat is one of the longest running breaks nights, nearly 9 years, but you set up Finger Lickin records in the late 90's. What has been a stand out career moment for you over the last ten years?

Difficult question! I think it still remains the first time we went to Australia. It was me and Jem who set up the label and we were doing all of the music and it was just us. We were some of the first breaks DJs to go over there. The fact that the music had spread that far across the world and then to get invited to DJ over there and be really well known and have loads of people be really enthusiastic when we arrived just blew us away really. The second time we went we played to a crowd of ten thousand people. I haven't been there for a couple of years and it still remains a really fond memory.

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Related links:

1. Chew The Fat - Troublestock
2. Merka chats to I Like Music