The
DMC World Mixing Championship Finals
take place on the weekend of Saturday
and Sunday 4th and 5th September.
Saturday's team event features a live
PA from The Jungle Brothers.
Sunday night's individual final will
now be hosted by the Spitkingdom Soundsystem
featuring
Killa Kela, MC Trip and Skelektrik
and features a live PA from The X-ecutioners.
Saturday 4th September
Battle for World Supremacy and Team
Championships
plus live PA from THE JUNGLE BROTHERS
5.00pm – 11.00pm
Sunday 5th September Individual World
DJ Championships
hosted by the Spitkingdom Soundsystem
featuring Killa Kela, MC Trip and
Skelektrik.
plus live PA from THE X-ECUTIONERS
World Final 6.00pm – 11.00pm Other
Live PA’s TBC
Carling Hammersmith Apollo Queen Caroline
Street, London, W6 9QH
Tickets available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk
08705344444 or at www.ticketweb.co.uk
08707712000
and direct from DMC. Call 0044(0)1628
667124 or email info@dmcworld.com
for more ticket information Tickets
are £15 for any one night or £25 for
a weekend ticket.
The Beastie Boys came back in 1999
featuring a former DMC/Technics World
Champion, Mixmaster Mike (from Invisbl
Skratch Piklz). Beck, a rock act,
features a world finalist, US Champion
DJ Swamp in his line-up. The X-Ecutioners,
featuring previous world champion
Roc Raida, teamed up with Linkin Park
and had a top 10 hit. The 2000 runner
up DJ Dexter is part of highly acclaimed
Australian beatmasters The Avalanches.
Nelly Furtado’s tour DJ is previous
Canadian champion Lil Jazz, former
UK Champ 2002 DJ Skully has his own
show on Kiss FM and our own DJ Pogo
was spotted strutting his stuff with
Beverley Knight on Top Of The Pops!
What does this prove? It proves that
everyone you see on stage during the
2003 DMC/Technics World Finals are
musicians and it proves that the Technics
SL1200 is not simply a turntable –
it’s a musical instrument. With scratching
sound fx now in many records released,
this competition is now more relevant
than ever.
A recent music industry headline news
story claims vinyl is on the come-back.
More turntables are being sold then
ever before. The explanation? Everyone
wants to be a DJ. It wasn't mentioned
that the source of inspiration for
this artistry for the past 20 years,
isn't in Brooklyn or
the Bronx but is a British Company
known as DMC.
Now into its 19th year, DMC and Technics,
hosts of the world’s most prestigious
DJ Championship, are on the verge
of completing 4 months worth of heats
in over 20 countries and are getting
ready for the World Finals. DMC will
stage the DMC/Technics UK Final at
the Carling Apollo Hammersmith, where
over 2,000 die hard fanatics will
meet armed with a personal
opinion to cast over the 12 competing
finalists.
Meanwhile, hundreds of DJ hopefuls
have practised to perfect their skills,
tightening that
crucial 6 minute routine in an attempt
to become a turntable legend like
luminaries
such as Cash Money, Cutmaster Swift,
Craze, A-trak, Q-Bert and Roc Raida
to name just
a few that came and conquered.
Current DMC World Champion, Canada’s
DJ Dopey, will be defending the title
he won last year. Look out for hotly
tipped UK entrant Blakey, who will
hopefully battle for the title he
so narrowly missed out on last year.
A brief breakdown of rules and descriptions
of the events:
Individual – 6 minute set where DJ’s
display mixing and turntablist skills.
Team Battle – Team version of the
Individual event. Battle for World
Supremacy -
Individual DJ’s battle head to head
in a fast paced competition giving
the
contestants 90 seconds to prove themselves
as the World’s best.
UK FINALS 3RD JULY 2004 NEWS RELEASE
DJ Blakey has been crowned UK DMC/Technics
Mixing Champion at a hotly contested
UK Final at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
on Saturday night (3rd July).
After a scorching set, the judges’
decision was unanimous and the London
finalist Blakey walked away triumphant
along with a car-load of mouth watering
prizes. In second place was Bournemouth’s
Muzzell, with bronze going to Dare
Devil from Bristol.
Blakey will now go on to represent
the UK in the World Finals at the
Carling Apollo Hammersmith, London
which take place on Saturday 4th (World
Team Championship & Battle For World
Supremacy) and Sunday 5th September
(Individual final) .
Furious turntable combat took place
to see Silk Kuts win the Battle for
UK Supremacy,
with Matman a deserved runner up.
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