Matt3r

I don't think there was one, epiphanal moment for me, more a collection of them a good friend of mine who had introduced me to hiphop was coming up to his 18th birthday and was planning on getting some hi-fi separates, I said to him "what about decks?" we'd been listening to a lot of run dmc at that time and jam master jay was tough, dope... I think that swung my mate into getting some belt drive soundlabs instead. that summer we were in biarritz and saw alliance ethnik, who had crazy b and faster J djing for them, they did a 15 minute set of routines mid set and we were properly bugging at that. 12 months later he handed the soundlabs down to me, he used to practice scratching hard on them but i didn't have the patience, they were way too unstable, so I learnt to beat match instead. a year after that I got technic 1200's, got into jungle, used to really enjoy dj hypes transforming over his sets, I got good quickly at Djing jungle and played alongside this lad called whitey from leicester, he had some dope transforms and it was like, shit, I need to work at this. I got some babies and scribbles with my right hand on the platter, then my crossfader broke and I didn't have a clue that you could even change a crossfader back then, i pretty much stopped djing for about 2 years, then built up some savings from my first proper job and went fuck it, I am getting 2 pdx's and a vestax 07. then spent a while crabbing terribly, made some scratch friends and haven't stopped since, that was about late 2000 I guess.

I used to tense up as soon as I clicked "record". I still do a little. my solution was to leave a tape recording constantly, so if I did a kick ass hour or so I'd have it taped. I like listening to a lot fo my mixes, some mixes I have done in the past have tracks on them that I don't like so much (many were often there to 'bait' listeners, ie drop some party hiphop and then hit them with the backpack shit...). The majority of the mixes I put out I do listen to reasonably often for a while after I've done them. I like the tracks, the way I've put them together. I go on places like mixcloud and there's all these bigged up mixes where the skills are purely lacking, but they have a gimmick or good network and get rated, the best mixes I've heard on there have had about 40 listens max...

John Denver Simon & Garfunkel Hall & Oates that mad short lad with the curly hair dad was all Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, early Miles Davis, etc. but he completely kept it under his hat, I didn't find out about that til i was in my 20's

I hear d King Tim III but then there's always the last poets, they first released an lp in '70, "Chastisement" from '73 sticks in my mind though

Cottam - Cottam 4

that madlib beat is sick! loved that track. mos lp was pretty forgettable tbh sick right here can't front on this it is the shit

its a grower. cappo also immense lp. not that many people loving it, but it hits hard for me. verb-t and kashmere lps both got some dynamite tracks on too a vintage year in my view

2010 was a vintage year.. foreign beggars, kashmere, verb-t, roskrypz, cappo, mowgli, ty marcberg, little bro, ultramagentic foundation, gangrene, nas & damien marley more still but i haven't checked them

possibly

aye, it was very soulless.. i like heavy bass and electronic noises, but i have to switch shit like i emerge off after 10 seconds...

i think the reason asian hawk got flamed online was that he lacked tech in 06, but already at that time other crews (thinking of c2c) had already made a big name for themselves with sets which owed more to planning than to execution. i saw asian's sets last year, and his tech had caught up with his arrangement, and i really enjoyed what he was doing. rasp is the original gentleman dj, he has put pure time into his practising, learnt the technical combos backwards, spent something like 11 years living for battling, and as a result his routines are both well arranged and technically demanding. i'm not sure how the IDA criteria compare to the old itf criteria, but ITF seemed to give higher scores for an bigger array of technical elements, and this line of thinking stands out in rasps set. i really enjoyed all four of the sets, especially rasps and the penguins, dope shit...

muzzells set ruled though, can't believe i never saw that already... or i forgot i had, shit, i'm getting old man

and that's an example of a dope battle set? shit sucked ass. the sound bank is hellish, and his cuts were sloppy. i switched off about 2 mins in, can't comment on the remainder. i know this shit aint easy, but fuck, he has a pair of customs, and that's the best he could do, and people are feeling that? is my finger off the pulse....

here's the testimonials: "lovin the mixtape man...there's quite a lotta tunes I've not heard before as well as some stone-cold classics...good work..." Benny Diction, Punning Clan, Liverpool " heavy mix!!! dope mix man, im liking the juggle with the mr scruff tune" DJ Rasp, UK DMC Battle for Supremacy Champion 2009, UK IDA Champion 2009 "the uk mix is the dopeness" Mr Shed, Big things, Preston UK "Dope" DJ Random, Steel Devils, Reading UK "big! good work" Ghost, http://musicbyghost.com/ RDU 98.5FM Christchurch, NZ "Nice mix : )" DJ Cro, http:mainingredientradio.blogspot.com, Crate Escape Records, Birmingham UK "Made at the end of last year, DJ Matt3r has put together a mix of some of the tunes released over the last 10 years in UK hip hop. Be warned, this isnt everyones cup of tea, and the production verges on total electronica in some stages, but in the name of diversity, I decided to link this up from Matt3r. Why am I posting a mix with the type of production sound I absolutely hate? Theres hardly any breaks used, or samples in some of the tunes. Think of it like this.. How boring would it be if all I posted was Britcore mixes? Theres only so many times you can hear Battle Creek Brawl before it gives you a headache! Theres only so many times you can hear the same list of tunes played in a different order, abit like them annoying commercial ass Ibiza rave mix cds that come out in summer that get plastered all over TV. Anyway, see what you think to the tunes. Props to Matt3r Keep it UK." Battlechasers, http://undergroundstrikesback.blogspot.com/ here's the spiel: put together a little mix of some dope british hiphop, without much of a preconception about covering all the big tracks or necessarily the best tracks. Its more just some dope tracks all of which came out of the uk in the last ten years. It seems a fitting time to raise a glass to all the mc's, dj's, breakers, writers, graffers and anyone who got down at some of the dope hiphop jams that went down in that time. so yeah, big up yaselves, and here's to the next ten years! the tracklist: UK DON'T STOP '00 - '09 01. Ghost - Elevate (feat DJ Iq & Jehst - remix) 02. Foreign Beggars ft. Oh No - Slow Broiled 03. Ghost ft Jehst & Kashmere - No More (Ghost remix) 04. Mentat ft. Roots Manuva & Seanie T - Rugged Neva Smooth V1 05. Mentat ft. Roots Manuva & Seanie T - Rugged Neva Smooth V2 06. Beans - Bubonic (instrumental) 07. Kashmere the Iguana Man - Poison (Ghost remix) 08. Ghost ft Verb-T & Asaviour - Better tomorrow 09. Diversion Tactics ft. Verb T1000 - 2084 10. Mr Scruff - Listen Up (feat Broken English) 11. P Brothers Scorsayzee Cappo Mr 45 - Three Kings 12. Stig Of The Dump - Braindead (Instrumental) 13. Stig Of The Dump - Braindead (Feat. R.A. The Rugged Man) 14. Grimlok - Magic 15. Lewis Parker - 101 Pianos 16. Evil Ed - Alien (Edstrumental) 17. Evil Ed Featuring - Jehst - Alien 18. Kashmere the Iguana Man - The Genesis 19. Lewis Parker - Casa Forte (feat. Supa T) 20. Ty - Ha ha 21. Karl Hinds - Don Gramma 22. Chester P - Rock bottom 23. Ghost - Frozen In Time (feat Verb T) the links: 320 download: http://rapidshare.com/files/325059755/UK_DON_T_STOP.mp3 192 Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?hlowzymgyuz Stream: http://www.mixcloud.com/matt3r/matt3r-uk-d...stop-2000-2009/

flubbers?

cool, i'm upgrading from SL1 for better sound quality. All being well I'll be flogging by SL1 next week on ebay.

I've had a sniff around and the best price I've seen is £499 delivered. anyone know anywhere better?

wicked, keep it up

i finished work at 2045- i dunno why but my career soncpires against anything scratch realted during the week at every turn. glad it went well though chaps and good luck with the rest of it.

awesome

safe. what time does tomorrow start? i'm wavering on whether i'll be out of the office in time to get over.

beat is nice but my nan spits better rhymes than that

i quite fancied getting the 3000 with a midi controller at one point as a low cost alternative to the controller one. then i figured you'd still be struggling to control the pitch and cut at the same time, unless you got a footpedal midi controller. then i saw that geezer with his sliding pitch fader midi controller and decided that was the future. then i bought a car which i'm still paying for.

2000 mk II? i'd avoid the mark I and the wacky tonearm assembly. that's the main thing that annoys me about mine