With over a decade of experience DJ'ing London's [the real] DJ Dub sit's down with Rappers We Like for an exclusive interview.RWL: Dub, how’s everything bro?
DJ Dub: All is good thank you... .
RWL: Cool, how’s the London life treating you? How’s the weather?
DJ Dub: The sun is shinning here in the big LDN and I've spent the day getting music together for upcoming gigs.
RWL: So what made you want maneuver the wheels of steel?
DJ Dub: I started off djing around 1990 when rave culture was real big over here, a lot of my mates were in indie bands and I wanted to do something different. I'd always been fascinated with turntables from the Fisher Price one I had as a kid to my dad's precious hi-fi one that i destroyed trying to scratch with!
RWL: Do you recall the first time or video/TV show watched in which you fell in you love with the art-form?
DJ Dub: It was a combination to going raves which got me into the mixing side of things, but it wasn't till I met DJ Yoda that I got heavily into the scratch side of things...I remember my brother gave me one of his first mixtapes (http://theessentialelements. blogspot. com/2008/05/dj-yoda-piano-breaks-2002. html) back in the day when those things were still on cassette and it blew me away…
RWL: Did you learn or did someone just teach you?
DJ Dub: I pestered Yoda to school me, that was 10 years ago now, damn time flies...
RWL: Now the thing that’s so dope about you is that you spin artist and remix tracks from artist like M.I.A to Erykah Badu – that’s pretty bad ass dude – what separates you from others?
RWL: Vinyl or Serato? Why?
DJ Dub: Serato is AMAZING! It’s revolutionized how I dj, and the best thing about it is that it’s just like vinyl. I still have all my vinyl and I still buy the odd bit, but it’s 2008 and music has gone digital like it or not. I love vinyl, there’s nothing like it, and there will always be vinyl, even after they close all the pressing plants. There’s already loads of spots in London where you can get vinyl cut (check out http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmNhcnZlcnljdXRzLmNvbS9kdWJzLw==).There’ll always be a market for stuff on vinyl.
RWL: Do you think it’s smart for aspiring artist with access to invest in a 12” just to send DJ’s in today’s industry?
DJ Dub: I still like getting vinyl in the post but it’s getting less and less. If you’re going to go to the expense then make sure that there’s some demand for your track and spend some time with designing the packaging and make your vinyl stand out.
RWL: Who are some of you influences dude?
DJ Dub: DJ wise I really like what A-Trak and Diplo are doing, have to give big props to DJ Eleven, DJ Ayres and Cosmo Baker, also my man DJ B Cause in San Fran and Squnicy Jones out in Houston. Here in the UK I’m feeling what Sinden & Switch are doing and of course my homie DJ Yoda.
DJ Frampster, http://www. myspace. com/djframpster
DJ Superix http://www. myspace. com/djsuperix
Superbug http://www. myspace. com/francishyltonand
Mumdance http://www. myspace. com/mumdance
RWL: Everyone says hip hop is dead especially here in America. Furthermore, it doesn’t really seem that way overseas bro! Are hip hop enthusiast saying the same thing over there? particularly in Europe?
DJ Dub: Hip Hop ain’t dead it’s just got fat and bloated and too obsessed with bullshit. There’s still lots of good stuff you just have to look, Andre 3000’s verse on Da' Art Of Story Telling pt. 4 keeps my faith in Hip Hop…
RWL: Since you’re so multi-dimensional and you aren’t stuck solely in hip-hop, what do you feel?
DJ Dub: I’m really into the whole dubstep thing, Skream and Benga, are killing it. High Contrast on the D&B tip, LA’s Acid Girls and our very own Herve on the electro house side of things. I’m liking The Ting Tings, Radio Clit, Wiley, Dizzee Rascal, We Have Band, HonoRebel, and Riz MC. I like a lot of the bassline stuff, on the grime scene I’m into Trimski, L Dot Man, Chipmunk and Scorcher. Tittswoth and Ayres for all your Baltimore needs (http://www. turntablelab. com/vinyl/153/258/36525. html), could go on forever, peep the website for my current top 10 http://www. djdub. co. uk
RWL: What would you like to see changed in the DJ scene in the UK?
DJ Dub: I’d like a law passed that only me or people I like were allowed to dj…
DJ Dub: I’d like a law passed that only me or people I like were allowed to dj…
RWL: You have an artist also Dub…Do tell more.
DJ Dub: I’m working with an incredible singer called Amy, we go by the name of Dixie. Check out http://www. myspace. com/amdixie And I also dj and produce for Kojo http://www. myspace. com/kojospace and The Misphitz http://www. myspace. com/themisphitz RWL: Whenever we conduct an interview we have a segment entitled “What Comes to Mind” Easy: I say a word or name and respond with the first word which comes to you. Got it?
RWL: Coolio
Dub: Braids
RWL: Kool Herc:
Dub: Creator
RWL: SantoGold
Dub: Trendy
RWL: Paramore
Dub: Who?
RWL: Metro Station
Dub: Who?
RWL: Paul Van Dyk
Dub:Trance
RWL: Nas on “Nigger”
Dub: Publicity
RWL: Chuck Inglish of The Cool Kids
Dub: Dope
RWL: Barack Obama
Dub: Better
RWL: London
Dub: Home
RWL: Jay-Z
Dub: Legend
RWL: Kim Kardashian
Dub: Who?
RWL: DIGITALISM
Dub: German
RWL: M.I.A:
Dub:Tigerstripes
RWL: Ebony Bones
Dub: Pointless
RWL: Amanda Blank
Dub: Groovy
RWL: DJ Dub (UK)
Dub: Me
RWL: So whats next for DJ Dub?
DJ Dub: Got a big party in a couple of weeks : http://www. facebook. com/event. php?eid=13480611817Looking forward to my new night at Goldsmiths Students Union. Me and Frampster are working on a new mixtape, look out for that one mad genre hoping business with bass for ddddaaaayyyyssssss…And with Dixie I’m working on some stuff with Bless Beats (he produced Wiley’s Wearing My Rolex). Want to push things on with The Misphitz and do some more DVJ stuff…
RWL: Any new artist that you’ve been feeling, that we need to prepare for?
DJ Dub: Kojo are gonna be the Britsh Red Hot Chili Peppers…Dope
RWL: Any shout out’s? Last Words?
DJ Dub: I’ve shouted out all my peeps shamelessly throughout the interview so I’m done, all it remains for me to say is keep on keepin’ on, and I’m off to eat my supper…interview by rapper gerald walker
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