For 25 incredible boundary pushing, trend setting, scratched, cut and mixed years, the world's largest DJ organization, DMC, has been the authority on the DJ battle. The DMC's annual World DJ Championship competition brings together the world's brightest DJ talents, vetted by a series of gruelling global heats. By doing so, DMC continues to host one of the most entertaining and jaw dropping shows you will ever witness. This year's show is no different. In the 25th Anniversary of this prestigious competition, DMC is bigger than ever…
Kicking off 2009's UK events, the UK DJ Final and Battle For UK Supremacy takes place at the 02 Academy Islington on Thursday 9th July with the winners going head to head with the best in the world at the World DJ Championships at the Indig02 on September 11th and 12th.
The standards will be set on the night as two previous DMC World Champions collaborate for an amazing dual display of battling in its purest, most ferocious essence as DJ Switch and DJ Shiftee take to the wheels of steel to show how it's done.
Bristol Academy, 14.11.08.So the scene was set for one of the biggest hip hop events in my calendar this year. Not only was it the chance to see the GZA/Genius, one of my favourite emcees from back in the day, but he was also going to be doing a Liquid Swords retrospective, which is one of, if not the best, solo Wu-Tang efforts. I first heard about this gig back in July, so that’s four months I’ve had to get myself hyped up and ready for the onslaught of a founding Wu member hitting my hometown.
Having said that, I wasn’t in too much of a hurry to catch the start of the show and the support acts because I’ve seen Skinnyman more times than I can remember and there hasn’t been too much deviation from show to show (As it turns out, I wish I had got down a bit earlier as apparently the other support acts were dope, according to our guys who caught the London show) We bowled up to the venue at about 9pm and caught the last few bars of “I’ll Be Surprised”. The crowd seemed to be lapping it up but then Skinny has always been a people’s favourite and they also knew what was going to follow.
