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    how did you get into scratching?

    in MUSIC/DJ RELATED

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    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.

    Do you listen to your own mixes and scratching?

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    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...

    Decent hip hop from this year

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    The James Brown thing was probably say, 87-92 or something (at a guess) but then say 90-95 or something, particularly in east coast stuff it was a lot of jazz loops and dusty drum breaks. I always prefered that stuff to the earlier stuff.

     

    But when i started listening to rap i preferred the early 90s stuff, but then gradually over time seemed to work my way through the 90s and i've kind of caught up now, my tastes have definitely shifted. I like Kanye's drawl, and another drawl rapper I've started listening to that I quite like is Curren$y, who was previously on Lil Wayne's label.

     

    I can see why you'd like rap that works with the beat rigidly like that, but i seem to like a fair bit of sloppy stuff, Ghostface, Jay Z, MF Doom, Kanye etc.

     

    Someone I definitely need to listen to more of though is Slick Rick. He's someone i've always heard bits of but never really bothered much with. But he smashes it on this Mos Def tue IMO:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT-hYXqTN38

     

    I guess the reason i talk up on this stuff is that I used to think hip hop died in about '95, but there's still stuff for everyone around, and I like that I can get excited about new releases and stuff. I'm sure there'll be stuff around which you could enjoy, it's just not the same stuff which I enjoy.

     

    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

    IDA UK 2010 Online Technical Battle

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    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...

    Battle DJ's

    in MUSIC/DJ RELATED

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    2008:

     

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    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....

    Matt3 Presents: "UK DON'T STOP" 2000 - 2009

    in MEMBER AUDIO & VIDEO FILES

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    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/

    pdx2000 or 3000?

    in EQUIPMENT & AUDIO PRODUCTION

    Posted

    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.

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