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If you weren’t there to witness it in person, here’s a re-cap of how the 2009 DMC World Deejay Championships went down. DJ Switch – who recently put together this month’s free music mix – took the Battle For World Supremacy title, while Japan’s Kireek swaggered off with the Team Battle trophy (for the third [...]

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With the DMC World Championships poppin’ off this weekend, we got Grandmaster Roc Raida to look back on his rise to the top of the deejay world…
Roc Raida: “The first time I ever entered a DMC competition was in 1992, and it was the New York heats. I remember that Clark Kent [...]

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By Richard Watson
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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 [...]

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By Chloe McCloskey
Celebrating The Almighty DJ Craze…
Germany’s DJ David may have been the first DMC competitor to take the title in two successive years back in 1990 and 1991, but seven years later something unprecedented happened: DJ Craze burst out of Miami and put a lock on the world title for three years in a [...]

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By Richard Watson
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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 [...]

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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; [...]

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By Richard Watson
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DMC founder Tony Prince looks back on the event hitting The Hippodrome…
“Our first DJ competition was at The Hippodrome, as it was in those days, in 1985. We weren’t really into mixing back then, to be quite honest. We just thought we’d invite deejays on stage and see who could [...]

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By Richard Watson
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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 [...]

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In 1987 Chad Jackson brought his trick-packed turntable tactics to the DMC World Finals, taking the title in the process. And while his ultimate trick – a ‘flying’ piece of vinyl – was sabotaged, his influence remains, with DJ Yoda saying, “Chad’s whole approach and persona were a huge influence on my [...]

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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 [...]