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Next came the hip-hop fashions and the all-important DJ moniker. “Not a tremendous amount of thought went into it,” Zornow says. “I liked the idea of Shiftee as being slightly criminal—you don’t know what’s going on behind those shifty eyes onstage. I guess it also works as a pun for what you do with records...
...form crews to critique each other and experiment with new sounds. It’s a dying tradition, a remnant of the early days of hip-hop...
There, on Oct. 6, Shiftee—overcoming animosity from European judges and an audience that seemed to prefer Euro-trash techno over his experimental hip-hop sounds—captured first place in the Battle for World Supremacy...
Zornow did not come to Boston looking to DJ for a hip-hop group. But hanging out at Massive Records, the city’s since-shuttered haven for hip-hop heads, sometimes these opportunities find...
...players in Boston’s underground hip-hop scene for eight years, was looking for a new DJ. They picked up Shiftee, but didn’t know just what they’d gotten until one of their first shows together at The Muddy River Smokehouse in Portsmouth, N.H. Zornow’s performance set other DJs’ tongues wagging...