Innovate & Educate - DJ Teeko @ DMC ‘03 USA finals
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
This is one of my favorite DMC sets of all time. Actually…next to Craze’s ‘98 USA set…I think it is my favorite DMC set of all time. Teeko, a member of San Francisco’s 41Funk crew, is one of the sickest DJs I’ve ever seen.
This set was from the 2003 USA DMC finals, and it came at a time when a lot of DJs had started building their sets around more commercial music. (More on this in another post.) Teeko took that idea of relying upon mainstream radio hits to get crowd reaction and completely threw it out the window.
The result is the one of the jazziest, funkiest routines ever. If we’re talking about elevating the turntable to the level of a musical instrument, like showing what you can really accomplish with two turns and a mixer, this is one of the best examples.
In addition to the musical elements of Teeko’s piece (let’s not even call this a ‘routine,’) an element of digging made it interesting. He didn’t rely on any break records. None of the sounds were pre-arranged or formatted to intentionally make it easier for him to do what he did. He composed this out of original material, and in an age where we’ve come to rely on laptops to get us through a gig, it’s refreshing to know that people are still willing and able to create something so innovative while staying so true to the heart of the art.
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