Jubilee's festival flavours and gnarly bass made her a champion in 2016

As the crowd popped off to the firestorm of dubplates being dropped by Mixpak at Red Bull’s Culture Clash, Jubilee surveyed the 20,000-strong crowd as the collective tore apart their rivals. “It was overwhelming and pretty surreal,” she says. “We walked in there fairly confident. It’s all music we love and music everybody else loves. So we knew we were going to bring it.”

Mixpak, the New York-based record label specialising in dancehall, might have been the lesser-known crew at London’s O2 Arena that night in June. But thanks to the seismic energy of Jubilee, Popcaan, Dre Skull and the rest of the crew, they fended off competition from Wiz Khalifa & Taylor Gang, UKG Allstars and Wiley’s Eskimo Dance to eventually come out on top.

As a product of the Miami bass scene, Jessica Gentile, now in her early 30s, started DJing at a drum ‘n’ bass party where she’d play anything she felt like through rap, r’n’b, dancehall and beyond. She landed on Mixpak in 2012 with the ghetto house-infused ‘Pop It!’ and has remained integral to the label ever since. But, in 2016, she truly made her mark.