As ever, Ibiza turned into the world as Jag started to play globally with the Jezebel parties including Russia, Hong Kong and across Europe.
He was invited to move to Ibiza and become resident at her world famous Jezebel parties. Things moved up a notch in 2004 when Jaguar Skills caught the eyes (and ears) of fashionista and renowned music lover Jade Jagger. Here he pushed his signature sound of lightning speed mixing to fans on a regular basis. The next few years saw Jag build his DJ profile, playing at various places across London including ‘Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes’ in an arty east London bar an uber-cool soiree that played everything from Hip-Hop, to Rock, Ragga to Disco. It was the first of its kind and received top reviews in key publications. The 60 minute CD was created, looped, produced and cut entirely on 2 mini walkmen. Using his Japanese contacts, Jaguar Skills first gained recognition by producing a mixtape CD for fashion label Maharishi. Luckily for us, he chose the UK as his place of residence due to the rare musical pastiche on offer, and it is here that we currently find him demonstrating his mash up skills. It has been muted that this will one day serve Jaguar Skills when he returns to Japan to pass on his mystical arts to future Ninja DJs. It was at this point that Jaguar Skills decided to further his understanding for his craft through bidding farewell to Japan and taking his skills on road.
This ability to out-train his peers and mentally retain every record he heard meant he eventually developed his skills to such levels that he himself attained the rank and status of his mystical teachers. Supposedly training on the turntables for up to 25 hours a day (that’s right – Ninja DJ’s can mould the space-time continuum to suit their needs) Jaguar Skills built up an extraordinary capacity for aural memory which meant that he was building a monumental back catalogue of music that he could draw on whilst behind the wheels of steel. It is here that Jaguar Skills completed many years of intense training in the art of Ninja DJing. The first documented reports of the whereabouts of Jaguar Skills come from the rarely released scriptures of a secret mountain based Ninja camp in Japan. Honing his craft and love of music for the last 15 years Jag has remained true to his school and kept a mysterious edge to his character with details of his real name, age and home town etc left largely unconfirmed! With the likes of Mark Ronson, Lupe Fiasco, Trevor Nelson and Chris Moyles unable to get enough of the original ninja – Mr Jaguar Skills – the rise (and rise) of this ground-breaking artist has been well documented.
Honing his craft and love of music for the last 15 years
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