vidcast: the master of scratch, DJ Qbert, sits down with diggrz
[diggrz: an SVW tag for arts, culture, trends, and events in and around Silicon Valley- new from SVW] -
Last week at the San Francisco Summer Music Conference, the diggrz team caught up with DJ Qbert.
Q stretched the sound check into an early bird set and the club was a buzz as industry folks mingled through the sound of the monitor mix.
Qbert is one of the top scratch DJs, or turntablists, in the world. He has won the world champion of disc mixing four times and is a member of the DJ Hall of Fame.
We caught up with him between sets and asked about a few of his upcoming projects including Q-quest, an "American Idol" for scratch DJs.
Lucaso interviews DJ Qbert for Diggrz
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[diggrz refers to the nomadic lifestyle offered by mobile digital technologies and gadgets - creating a "nomadig" culture. The diggrz name is also a tip-of-the-hat to some of the ideas of the Diggers, a democratic group that arose in 1649, out of the English revolution .
The Diggers were a radical group that cultivated and protected common lands, and sought to create egalitarian, self-sustaining communities. The Diggers would have found kindred spirits in today's software engineer culture, and the focus on creating commonly owned technologies through egalitarian open source community projects. - Tom Foremski]
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