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Congrats boys!!! O.

Fuck me, that video's awesome. Should've bought shares for NI ages ago...

nice cuts, especially the funky fresh cuts.

1 is great. I love the fact, that the beat doesn't drop as it keeps the tension all along. With an ill rapper flowing over it, that's ridiculously nice. 2 is nice and dope - oldskooly, but nice. Working with horns can be such a bitch and I like how you flipped it. 3 - really nice. I'd modify the snare a little bit, so the clap/snap isn't as poppy if ya get me. The vocals in the hook have some instrument in them, right? Take it out...makes it too noisy IMO. Nice stuff mate! What you make it in/on? O.

Broke should've won. He got robbed. He'd never say that, but I will. He's the better dj, hands down. Next year, ya'll can get ready to see broke take it home.

Big up to all of ya! Congrats guys!

you've got some really, really nice chirps and stabs. love it. well done. o.

So I'm gonna say this in public, even though you might prefer to have it as a PM broke. I watched B-Two's routine from last year at the world's - yours was/is better. I watched Zeke cut - he's got skills, seriously good cutting and drumming skills. The only "routine" I could find (after a 10s search ) was in horrible audio quality, so I can't judge. But he's probably a contestant for you. Otherwise I'm not too sure, I think that if you lay down your routine from last sat, you have good chances of going to London. I mean that objectively and not because I'm your mate. Simply based on what I've heard over the internet, in videos etc over the last 15 years. But I'll be boosting your ego more next weekend, so I've got to spare some compliments - gotta make your missus even prouder too O.

I'll be honest with u. There were some skills around, no doubt. And i don't want to hate too much, because i couldn't have put together a set st all. But most of the guys were doing stuff from the mid 90s. The guy who came second had raidas bodytricks locked down, so props to him. Clockwerk wasn't too bad either, but between your set and the others there were probably 2 decades of progression. I looked at the judges too. They were fucking around most of the night, but within 10s of your set they were all like "shit, this the real deal". Melbourne would be great. Of course i got my dates all wrong again, and izzy's here. Are u driving down or flying? Got see if our budget allows for it tho. But if the rest of oz is like what i've seen in sydney, i wouldnt want to miss seeing u take the national title...like stealing candy from a baby.

U guys should've seen it. Broke lay down a craze moment. Everyone before him was sooo crap and all of them thought they were really good. Then broke steps up, the mc says: ah, he ain't affiliated with anyone...no crew? And mr broke says nothing, puts the cap down over his face and lays down a fucking heavy and tight set. The face of last years champion was just: OMG! Seriously skilled dude taking all of them sucket djs to school. Nice!!!

Nice one for killing it at the DMC NSW finals and winning! Your set was killer!

Oh and a final thought: If everything were so easy tiesto does, why the fuck aren't any of you folks out doing it and earning 30m+?

Ha! The first time I've been told I'm too old to get it. Wow. And that at 30. Thanks vekked. You made my day. @arkei: never really got outside of zurich much...now I live in Sydney, Australia....

I mean, the counter argument to that is that mixing is boring and unfulfilling creatively because you're just playing other people's music. It's like learning how to play guitar and putting all your effort into cover songs when you could make your own song. So yes I think YOU (or other people who are more into mixing) would get bored of battling and not of DJing, but other people get bored of mixing and not of scratching/juggling/etc. I get your point and think it's completely valid but def subjective. Most of the debate and issues on this topic stem from 2 diff mindsets; the mostly DJs, and the mostly turntablists. Both overlap a ton, and both are gonna be completely right in arguing the validity and the art of mixing, and the validity of scratching/beat juggling. Some people DJ because they like playing other people's music, some people DJ because they wanna make music out of other people's music. So yea, obv people who are in it to mix and play music are going to see battling as pointless now because it's no longer a direct platform to becoming a club DJ, and obv people who aren't fulfilled by just playing other people's music are going to see that as pointless too. If the reason you DJ isn't to mix, battle, scratch, juggle, or whatever else, then it's probably going to seem pointless to you. However, I get endlessly pissed off by a common attitude found with most "turntablists" / "battle djs" thinking theyre also good club djs/mixers. The other way round never happens. I think its impossible to ask a "mix" DJ like Tiesto to juggle some raw funk break and do some triplets with the snare However i think its possible to ask a well known skilled battle DJ to mix 2 140 bpm trance tunes together using a sync button Exactly my point. Get the attitude? And so that you understand the irony of your own reply: Tiesto wouldn't think he could do that, whereas the battle Dj thinks he can.................

I mean, the counter argument to that is that mixing is boring and unfulfilling creatively because you're just playing other people's music. It's like learning how to play guitar and putting all your effort into cover songs when you could make your own song. So yes I think YOU (or other people who are more into mixing) would get bored of battling and not of DJing, but other people get bored of mixing and not of scratching/juggling/etc. I get your point and think it's completely valid but def subjective. Most of the debate and issues on this topic stem from 2 diff mindsets; the mostly DJs, and the mostly turntablists. Both overlap a ton, and both are gonna be completely right in arguing the validity and the art of mixing, and the validity of scratching/beat juggling. Some people DJ because they like playing other people's music, some people DJ because they wanna make music out of other people's music. So yea, obv people who are in it to mix and play music are going to see battling as pointless now because it's no longer a direct platform to becoming a club DJ, and obv people who aren't fulfilled by just playing other people's music are going to see that as pointless too. If the reason you DJ isn't to mix, battle, scratch, juggle, or whatever else, then it's probably going to seem pointless to you. Well all I can say is that I think musically I've spanned quite a broard spectrum: I played an instrument, I was a "turntablist" for almost 10 years, whereas I've been a "scratcher" for 16 years (although irregularly over the last 3-5 years), I've been producing music/tracks for about 11 years and I've been "djing" in clubs for 14 years. Before I continue let me say, I feel dead-old right now. Anyways, don't get me wrong, I've gone through all phases of "club dj's are shite, turntablism is the shit" to "good club djs are the shit, turntablism is shite". Right now, I've come to an internal agreement with myself that a) I'm neither nore and b) I respect both sides for their efforts. However, I get endlessly pissed off by a common attitude found with most "turntablists" / "battle djs" thinking theyre also good club djs/mixers. The other way round never happens. And I think it's fair to question the relevance battle-djing has in the world of djing. Has it really progressed the art-form as a whole or wasn't the artform progressed by individuals and technology? The only influence I can actually tell "battle-djs" (i.e. the DMC/ITF world champs) ever had, was being allowed to work with companies like Vestax, Technics, HAK, improve their mixers, but I'm not sure how that really helped the art-form to progress. Serato and sorts were actually developped for the club scene. The term "scratch" was just proving, that the software could compute the highly complex movements high enough. Regardless of what I've said above, getting back into battling/cutting/jugglin etc. is always fun as it really helps revive the thrill we (all) shared and share for vinyl, hiphop, scratch music etc. But I think a lot of battle djs should just get off their high horse and stop thinking they're the real meaning of the word DJ etc. That's just pure bollocks.

Nice skills there, bra!

BAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHA OMG people being serious about calling someone out to a battle! Oh my daaaaaaaayz!

Fucking LOL @ loop. I'm with Ruftone on this one. The most memorable thing said during the whole discussion. BTW: Thank you steve for bringing back some of the drama of the old scratch boards. It's like proper Asisphonics, Scratchcon & D-Styles chucked in to one. Love it! Steve playing devil's advocate is just fucking hilarious. More of it. My two cents - coming from a Dj that started with scratching and beatjuggling, did that for about 10 years and then moved on to mixing dnb and deep house. Mixing is not easy, beat-matching is. Most people don't understand the fine difference. Even Djs. You can align two beats to the same tempo, may it be funk, dub, house, yoddeling and if they don't sync tune-wise your mix is fucked. Most battle dj's and a lot of backpacker-hiphop dj's don't understand the value of track selection. But I also do believe that it has to do with age and maturing in your genre. And also a sense for musicality. Battling on the other hand has always been a cock-fest, ball dangling, deffening event. Woman don't appreciate it, 98% of it sounds like utter shit and promoters just want to make a buck and don't give a shit about the artists - DMC...?. How many good battlers became/are good djs? Only a handful sadly....Craze = amazing. Ever heard is DnB mixtapes? A-trak, Klever excellent...funny they're all from the same crew. Woody's pretty damn good as a club dj what I hear. Blakey is fucking A. HOWEVER, they're not good because they're battle djs, they're good because they're talented dj's and the battle ERA was just a platform for them to display their skills and made them known in the """"""""scene""""""""". Not wanting to take the fun out of battling, but seriously - you battle for a couple of years and then you stop, you get bored or tired of it. Djing / mixing on the other hand...you can never take the fun and love out of good music, a couple of beers with your mates and some easy hed-bobbing.

I think it's well composed, but lacks technicality and you're relying on your composition too much to deliver. As Vekked said, you're doing baby's and the same juggle movement all the time. The record doesn't spin back once. Being an oldschool cunt that annoys the hell out of me. The cuts are interesting as they're a bit different to the rest of the routine. The last part of the juggle is interesting. My advice: If you're going to do a heavily edited juggle, then flip up the beat structure. Of course this can't be done in 1.5 minutes, but in a 6min routine it can. But that's me. A salon-chair dj critique who hasn't cut properly in years. Regardless of what I said above, congrats on the routine. O.

Wax - From someone who mixes a ton of house/deep house - Put it out! It's well done and I¨ll go with Steve on this one - cornball. Nice work. O.

Jesus...the valuation of the company most go up every time. GTA is legendary. Even my dad, who has not clue about gaming knows about GTA... Should've invested into rockstar a long time ago...would be a millionaire now (perhaps). Game looks phenomenal. O.

But if it were sped up, how would that work? Cuz the beginning seems pretty normal too me... O.

nice cuts. insane setup. two of those mixers? you gotta be a high roller. Nicey, nice. O.

I heart tyra from saigon... Who was that vekked?? Damn ncie flow!