Hip Hop / Turntablists

Image	DJ Name	Music Style	MP3	Book
	DJ Sureshot	Old School Hip Hop, Funk, Breaks, Electro, Big Beat
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Hometown
Liphook, Hampshire

Age
33

Music Style(s)
Old School Hip Hop, Funk, Breaks, Electro, Big Beat

Venues Played

Bacchus - Kingston

The Hand & Spear - Weybridge

Bojanglez - Guildford
Pew's Bar

The Plantation Café
The Prince Albert
The Mash Tun

Scratched - Woking
The Station

Vamps

Promoters Worked For
Deals On Wheels

Set It Off - with Jazz T -Diversion Tactics

and Mix Magician - Cause 4 Concern D&B crew.

Reload - Zest Entertainment

Preferred Equipment

Turntables not CDs

Most Memorable Gig
The Broadway Bar (now Vamps) in Woking, Xmas 1998

Favourite Venue
Used to be Vamps but I always have a good time at Pews Bar in Guildford

Favourite DJ
Grandmaster Flash

First Record Bought
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 - The Message 12"

Inspiration
Afrika Bamabaataa for the ‘anything goes' philosophy and Steve Stein for demonstrating it on wax

Interesting Facts

At the time of my birth I was the smallest baby in England (8 weeks premature) and had my Last Rites reads to me as no one thought I would live. Oh, and I met Jimmy Saville at one of his marathons.

Biography

First and foremost a hip hop freak. Been into the whole scene since the early 80's (Malcolm McLaren, Style Wars, Herbie Hancock's Rockit are early influences).
Have tried my hand at all 4 elements of hip hop and stuck with the one I was most successful at.
Started off as a mobile DJ doing birthdays, weddings, kids' parties, discos....etc. In the meantime I was a budding ‘bedroom DJ' honing my scratching skills late into the night. This was 1987 and I used those old Simon Harris Beats, Breaks & Scratches LP's.
Went through many name changes (DJ Arrow, DJ Shadow(!), Kid Kaos, DJ Whizdom, DJ Beatdown) until deciding my current name which represents my love of old school hip hop.

In the early 90's I put together 'Juice' Hip Hop fanzine which I sold mail order witn my mixtapes.

Met DJ Faro through mutual friends

(Relic & Lazy Ace) and shortly after did a memorable houseparty to celebrate his 18th.

The past couple of years have seen me enter a new stage in my life, namely marriage and fatherhood which have sadly curbed my record-buying addiction and limited the nights I play out. Luckily I have an extensive back-catalogue which suits me fine as I can dip into the golden-age of Hip Hop or find a classic break to flip on the crowd.

Chart
Yellow Sunshine - Yellow Sunshine
The Badman is Robbin' - Hijack
Catch The Beat - T Ski Valley
Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
Lesson 3 - Double D & Steinski

Forthcoming gigs

Scratched, The Station and ya mama's bedroom...

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