Dbmlabs Brand DJ Clothing Apparel and Accessories. » 41funk http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog Dbmlabs is dedicated to promoting dj's, producers, and remixers around the world. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:17:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mista B at Skratchpad scratching it up in the Bay Area http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/2009/11/19/mista-b-at-skratchpad/ http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/2009/11/19/mista-b-at-skratchpad/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:01:40 +0000 jon_dbmlabs http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/?p=803 Mista B shows off his skills at Skratchpad up in the Yay Area! (That would be the Bay Area, California for the non West Coasters)
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]]> http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/2009/11/19/mista-b-at-skratchpad/feed/ 0 Behind the Scenes at DMC 2009 with Mista B from 401 Funk http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/2009/08/19/behind-the-scenes-at-dmc-2009-with-mista-b-from-401-funk/ http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/2009/08/19/behind-the-scenes-at-dmc-2009-with-mista-b-from-401-funk/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:22:10 +0000 geebd_dbmlabs http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/?p=534
Mista B is always up to no good and we give you a feature presentation of his documentary while competing in the DMC 2009 USA Finals. Nobody does it better than Mista-B. Watch the entire thing, it’s worth it! (Especially the guy at the end dancing his ass off….)

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]]> http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/2009/08/19/behind-the-scenes-at-dmc-2009-with-mista-b-from-401-funk/feed/ 1 Innovate & Educate – DJ Teeko @ DMC ’03 USA finals http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/2008/08/20/innovate-educate-dj-teeko-dmc-03-usa-finals/ http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/2008/08/20/innovate-educate-dj-teeko-dmc-03-usa-finals/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:59:24 +0000 mike_dbmlabs http://www.dbmlabs.com/blog/?p=49

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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