Your favorite DJ's

[Othello Harrington]

I was looking at some records last night, got me thinking of who my "gotta be there" DJ's are.

I came up with three that I would attempt to see if they were within a 3 hour flight time.

#1) I've seen him rip 6 or 7 times, always on point, always polished as hell. No doubt the best in the business.

#2) Is the guy who swung me from jungle to house, specifically booty house, specifically shit you only get out of Detroit and Chicago (or did, I'm out of the scene) this dude is fantastic.

#3) The beat man, you want east coast, you call him.

with vocals

[Mr-K]

DJ QBert (even though he has kind of fallen off the face of the earth). I think modern turntableism sort of hit a wall with him, everybody just sort of sounds like him now. I sort of stopped following this whole scene around... 2002 or so. But I did go to the DMC World in 2008 in London and found that it hadn't evolved too much. The guy is like a fucking wizard though

JRocc - I haven't heard anything he's done recently, but his two Sex Machine mix tapes are awesome, in one he goes from Tom Scott's Today into PR and CL Smooths Troy flawlessly transitioning where the sample kicks in. It is sweet

Cut Chemist - Jurrassic 5's DJ, he did Brain Freeze and Product Placement with DJ Shadow which are both 12 kinds of awesome. They've done some other collaborations as well but I'm not familiar with them. I try to avoid anything DJ Shadow does these days. I treat him sort of like how I treat Weezer. He stopped making music in 2005.

ATrak is another one that I used to like but stopped following. He's sort of like an indie icon these days, I think he played Pitchfork last year.

Of course then there's this awesome shit:

[Othello Harrington]

been out of the scene too long to even know some 0f them dudes K, thanks for posting them.

Here is a guy I would be remiss if I didn't mention, he was huge in the scene when I was in it.

[Mr-K]

I only really know anything because my brother was doing the turntablism thing for about five years before he started playing guitar. Just sort of rubbed off

[Rtificial]

I'll end this thread with only this.

RIP Roc Raida (just recently passed due to complications for a spinal injury from a car wreck)