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...like DJs, if you like hip hop, if you like funk, if you like rock’n’roll...then Scratch Tour 2002 is your musical dream. No, Scratch Tour 2002, which hit Boston at the Avalon Ballroom on March 19, is your sound utopia and your DJ nirvana. Avalon was equipped with a row of turn-tables running the length of the stage, a jam-packed crowd of fans, a small break-dancing circle and a big screen running everything from live feed of the DJs’ hands close up, to the bouncing crowd to unrelated...
...national promotional tour is planned to excite fans and spread the word about the new movie Scratch, by director Doug Prey. Scratch gives a documentary-style history and contemporary portrait of important and innovative DJs and the now thriving DJ culture founded on their talents...
...Original Jazzy Jay, first to step up to the tables, showed the crowd why he is such a legendary figure in the history of turntablism, dropping a set of funky, old-school tracks. Jazzy Jay was a founding father of the hip hop DJ culture. Mixing in ’70s funk beats with cow bells and sound bites from a speech by President John F. Kennedy ’40, he composed sequences of impeccable timing, deep bass and infectious rhythms. His skills illustrated and made real the lyrics he scratched with: “Musical rhythms can mess...
...scratch.” Grandwizzard Theodore delivered a classic, well-rounded set, working the crowd and getting the fans to sing him “Happy Birthday.” He also treated them to a brief hip hop history lesson emphasizing the importance of the DJ as the first element of hip hop, in conjunction with the MCs, graffiti artists and break dancers...
Closing the night was DJ Babu with Dilated Peoples, the West Coast group comprised of the two MCs, Evidence and Irascience. Both joined forces to give an impressive performance, displaying the height of their freestyling skills, but made sure to keep the focus on their prized DJ Babu, also a member of the Beat Junkies. Their set felt more like a celebration and tribute to DJs (in particular Babu), which it was, than a standard hip hop concert. Pitting sides of the crowd against each other, Dilated Peoples gave everything to maintain high energy into the tail...