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The DMC World DJ Championships 2008 are being held on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September at Indig02 in London. International heats are taking place now, across the globe, and if the UK competition was anything to go by, once again standards have been ramped up a notch this year.

This year’s UK heats are done and dusted; the finalists travelled to Islington Academy on 17th July for the DMC UK DJ Championships and after a hard fought competition, DJ Skully was crowned the winner. Placing first in the competition means Skully is now set to represent UK turntables in the solo DJ category and will compete against the cream of the global DJ crop at this years competition.

Representing the UK in the Battle for Supremacy - a head to head scratch battle of wits, techniques and ability is DJ Switch. This young turntable wizard has stood up to the competition and emerged victorious for 3 years in a row now, retaining his dextrous deck dominance since 2006. Needless to say we’re expecting big things from him this September!

The world finals mark the culmination of months of fierce competition in countries across the world including Japan, USA, Australia, Canada, China, Brazil, and Bulgaria. The winner here in September will be the best of the best, period.

The championships have been running for 24 years now and have helped launch the careers of a galaxy of stars from the DJ world ranging from early winners like the UK’s Scratch Perverts, Plus One and Cutmaster Swift to legends like Q-Bert, C2C (4x DMC World Team Champions), DJ Cash Money and Beastie Boys DJ Mixmaster Mike, through to new names like DJ Craze, DJ Netik and last year’s German winner Rafik who played showcase sets at all the UK Heats.

This years event is hosted by the DMC’s favourites MC Trip, Killa Kella and Billy Biznizz. Day tickets are only £15 although we fully recommend seeing both shows for £25, available from DMCWORLD.COM, the ticketmaster website and Indig02 website. Not to be missed!

http://www.dmcdjchamps.com