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Thursday night I checked out the Seattle elimination round for the DMC American Battlegrounds DJ championship with Kev. The winner of the competition would move on to represent Seattle on Aug 19th in Chicago. From there, the winner of the Chicago event will move on to represent the US for the world DMC Championship. For those unfamiliar with turntablism, the basic premise is that a DJ manipulates two playing turntables and a mixer to create new, original seamless music; using techniques such as scratching, beat matching, beat juggling, and blending.

The event was held at Chop Suey, and the turn out was surprisingly low. I guess the Seattle turntablism scene isn’t as big as I expected. Though, it was inspiring to see many young people come out to the show, hopefully the Seattle kids will help make the scene bigger. From what I saw/heard, I didn’t think the contestants here in the Seattle area would be winning the worldwide championship anytime soon. The talent here is growing, but still sorely far from world-class talents like DJ Craze and DJ Q-bert.

The winner of the Seattle heat was DJ Tre. Here’s a video I took of the beginning of his performance.

Crosspost from my music-blog.