Our boy Mista-B caught in the act at Amoeba Music San Francisco copping some records and dropping off his latest CD SonicSoulSpace. Undoubtedly, he was pimping our Exclusive DMC Transit tee (which we do not sell anymore).

He’ll be back in New York in a couple weeks to compete in the USA DMC finals, attempting to win his way to the International DMC finalists competition.

Here’s the entry that Amoeba Records put together for Mista-B.  http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/07/jamoeblog/amoeba-music-hip-hop-weekly-round-up-07-17-09.html

Put one down for the bay area!  If you don’t remember, here’s a video we did with Mista-B last year at Knitting Factory giving a shoutout to Misses-T.

DJ Kentaro needs little introduction. Winning the DMC World DJ Final at the age of 20 speaks volumes about his talent and skill at the decks. Some photographers caught him on his tour in Shenzen China where he kept the crowd on their feet till 6 in the morninnn (as snoop dogg would say).   He’s part of the record label, Ninja Tune (thanks Silami) He’s been featured in various magazines, publications, and television.

You only spend half a grand on vinyl banner if it’s DJ Kentaro.

To be completely honest, it’s hard for us to keep track of what he’s up to especially since we don’t have a full time translator but knowing he’s at the top of his game is good enough for us.

RAISE UP!

Our very own DJ Etronik won the Guitar Center DJ Scratch Battle in West Covina dropping the “juice” as the Guitar Center guys would call it on a crowd of several hundred showing up in the pouring rain outside…

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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.