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Well I can hope to see some footage of the spin-off when the crew gets back…but until then, I will resort to this cool little application that might…just might keep me entertained till I see some real scratchin!

A Buddy just showed this to me right now and I had to post it. I think this was amazing! It is probably old to some of you but it is new to me.

Enjoy and Pass it on!!! Leave your thoughts below!!!!

Ok so I am going to be at this like a good little beaver and start posting new MixRev videos everyday!!! We had I-Dee below. Now I have 2 More for you.

First some DJs Vajra and Troubl having a little fun at the MixRev NAMM DJ sessions:

Then we have some live footage I took from electro house and Billboard fav, KASKADE, at his LA stop of the Jet Set New Year’s Tour!!!

Enjoy and let me know what you think. Leave some thoughts on our YouTube and check out more videos there!!!

Let’s just leave the fact that we have not been blogging alone for a while. Ha! What better way to get back to business then with a little post of Idee spinning at this past January’s NAMM DJ Sessions!!!! Enjoy!

So I haven’t written in a while because I’ve been a bit out of it but yesterday I got an IM from a DJ I haven’t spoken to in a while and that conversation inspired this entry. I have a story for everything sometimes, come on it makes life a lot more interesting.

Before I started going to DJ battles, I became familiar with DJs in the scene via message boards/forums. In the early 2000’s THE GO TO forum was the one hosted by the Turntable Technicians. I remember reading this board religiously for weeks solely for the beef, it was addictive. Then the site got shut, I did sometime on the 5th Platoon boards then finally DJ Geometrix launched his board and that took over as the go to for everything turntablist, dj battle, skratch dj related.

The Turntable Technicians are no longer a crew but back in the day during the early 2000’s they were definitely a force to be reckoned with. In 2000 there were like 3-4 of them in the US DMC Finals, one of those finalist was the NYC DMC champ, DJ Tragik. A few years later in 2002, I think, a Turntable Technician by the name of Perseus took the US DMC title, that was my very first DMC US Final, it was at the Roxy. I have the worst memory but somehow I remember things when it comes to these DJs.

Back to the topic at hand, more than a DJ! As rewarding as coming up with a new routine or winning a DJ battle may be, DJs are just like us, they have bills that need to get paid, so with that, there are 9 to 5ish jobs these DJs may have. I was reading through an old thread on the Turntablist Network forum about what jobs these DJs have and here are some of the jobs that some of the DJs on that forum have: computer programmer, IT support, teacher, graphic designers, architect, insurance agents, electrician, and a bunch have even gone to the military.

All of these thoughts tie in with DJ Tragik, the DJ that IM’d me the night before, he’s a film director! I had seen him once or twice around the circuit but it wasn’t until one of his with the other crew he’s a part of the Lo-Livez a few years back that I actually stopped said hi and told him I enjoyed his performance. Randomly we’d chat on aim, and he’d just tell me about a project he’d been working on. It’s good to see someone take pride in something they do, whether it be becoming a DJ Champ or designing a website or in Tragic’s case putting out films. Vote for his Diary of the Dead contest entry on myspace! Click on the BOOYAH! icon to vote:
VOTE HERE. I believe the contest ends in a day or two so show your support to a fellow DJ!!

So with all of that being said, what JOBS besides DJing do you have??