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    Your favorite album that never saw commercial success?

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    1 hour ago, djdiggla said:

    Gutter do you have any deadstock of your mats? Would love to buy if so. Mine are well weathered at this point.

    I actually don't unfortunately.  The only ones I have left are the ones you sent me a long time ago and a 1 off pair that has the sewerslime logo printed on them.  They were never used and still mint, but it was a 1 off.

    Maybe its time for some updated mats.  I got so burned out doing the originals that this time it would have to be limited.

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    Your favorite album that never saw commercial success?

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    On 8/10/2021 at 10:55 AM, Jam Burglar said:

    Back in the day there was an East Coast DJ Crew called "Muzik Fiendz".  There were a bunch of members but the ones I remember were DJ Gutter, T-Dawg, DJ Ragz, Shiro and DJ Select.  I have known Ragz and Select since the late 90s.  These guys are pretty much contemporary with the 1200 Hobos (Mr. Dibbs, John Doe, Buck 65, Sixtoo, etc.)  Most of them have been cutting since the late 80s and early 90s.  Gutter (who now goes by "Gold Voltron") created the modern day slipmat for scratching (2-part mats with a slick side on the bottom and thin felt on the top).  He called them "sewer slimes".  Qbert and Yoga stole his idea and came out with "Butter Rugs".

    Ragz used to battle a lot and has been involved with all types of stuff.  Ragz and Mudd started Jazz Addixx, with Ragz doing the scratching and Mudd doing MCing and the lion's share of the production.  I had heard about Ragz DJing for "Jazz Addixx" for over a decade but had no idea how dope the album was.  I finally got Ragz to get me a copy of Oxygen Refreshed (got his last one) and I was like "WTF!  This is dope!  Why didn't I know about this!?"  Ragz says they went to Japan and the Tower Records there had a whole "Jazz Addixx" display and everything.  Half a million views on Youtube and I'm sure they hardly made any money off the project.

    I realize this post is almost 3 years old but I am just going through the forums and saw it.  Yoga and Q didn't exactly steal the idea behind my original slipmats (although they did screw Matt over who designed the original butter rugs) but they did take the original butter rugs that had the plastic bottoms to slipmat source and ask if he could reproduce them.  Unfortunately, it was labor intensive, so they opted for cheaper mats.

    I will say that it was a huge coincidence that the next gen of butter rugs had the same material as mine on top, but then again that was what? 24 years ago.  

     

    Anyway, I'm back to making beats, later! 

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