By Richard Watson
Photography courtesy of DMC
With DMC’s World Deejay Championships coming up in literally a matter of days, we checked in with Tony Prince and Cutmaster Swift to get their views on the ever-contentious judging process…
Tony Prince: “It’s a multi-thorned problem because, first of all, you have to make sure that every judge understands what [...]

By Richard Watson
Photography courtesy of DMC
DMC head honcho Tony Prince reveals all about the legendary golden decks…
“I used to have to go over to Osaka, Japan every year and report to Technics on how things were going. These were the days when Technics were courting the deejays big time because they were the number one [...]

By Richard Watson
Photography courtesy of DMC
Cutmaster Swift: “At the time, winning the DMC competition was finally an acknowledgment and peace of mind for my parents. That’s why I entered the DMC, to show them this could be a profession.
“Wogan and stuff was great, but the real acknowledgment came from people that were in my neighbourhood; [...]

By Richard Watson
Photography courtesy of DMC
Cutmaster Swift, the UK’s most revered DMC champ, gives it up for Q-Bert and the mighty Mixmaster Mike…
“Q-Bert is without a doubt the pinnacle of what deejays are when they enter the DMCs, and the fact that he has maintained that hunger to keep pushing and developing is realistically what [...]

Click here to download HHC Digital 004, which goes all out on the DMC tip as we celebrate 25 years of the world’s premier mixing competition with contributions from DJ Craze, Q-Bert, A-Trak, Scratch Perverts, Roc Raida, Cutmaster Swift and more.
Keeping up the DMC angle, we also present the greatest archived DMC photos you’ll ever [...]

By Richard Watson
Photography courtesy of DMC
DMC’s head honcho, Tony Prince, looks back on his favourite DMC characters…
“Roger Johnson, who won the first ever event in 1985, was a very straight-laced young man. He was just a pure mixer. Then you had Chad Jackson who was quite a character of course, and he went on to [...]

By Richard Watson
Photography courtesy of DMC
Cutmaster Swift, the 1989 DMC world champ, looks back on his personal deejaying style…
“At the time I came up, the deejay styles were obviously changing. There were these props, people using basketballs and scratching with their shoes, and I remember Chad Jackson using a cue stick, so there was a [...]