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Dj Yoda
DJ Yoda is one of Britain's most admired and original DJs, having built a reputation for injecting humour into UK hip-hop. Admired for his originality as well as his sense of fun, he is possibly the only DJ in the world who can fill a club cutting George Formby with Jurassic 5, or 80's pop with New York rap. Tipped by Q Magazine as one of "The 10 DJs you must see before you die", and voted alongside DJ Premier as "One of the Top Three DJs in the World" in Hip Hop Connection magazine, DJ Yoda is no ordinary scratch DJ.Born in London, Yoda represents a new brand of mix-master who will play any kind of music to make people dance - with a hip-hop set that can take the audience from underground rap to TV themes, to nursery rhymes, country, soul, reggae, drum and bass, 80's pop and back again. In the last year alone, DJ Yoda has
* Played on the same bill as Steve Martin, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock at the HBO Comedy Festival in Las Vegas
* Headlined the Lake Of Stars Festival with Basement Jaxx in Malawi, Africa
* Supported Fatboy Slim on his UK tour
* DJ'd to packed-out clubs everywhere from Beijing to New York
* Headlined at the Star Wars film premiere in front of George Lucas himself, at the Grand Prix in Monte Carlo
* Toured across America with the BullRun - the US's most exclusive car rally. In short, he gets all the good gigs.
Yoda has also recently completed a 30-date audio-visual tour cutting up DVDs live in the club. This came about after his successful re-scoring of both "The Goonies" and "Ferris Buellers Day Off" on the festival circuit in 2003 and 2004. His "How To Cut and Paste" mix CD series has reached Vol. 3 - The 80s Edition - a collage of his favourite pop, hip-hop and movie moments from the 1980s. Yoda also helps to run Antidote Records, who are releasing (as well as his own mix CDs) music by artists like Steinski, Prince Paul, Cassetteboy, DJ Shortkut and Madlib. He has provided music for TV (Channel 4's "4 Music" and FilmFour trails), advertising (his scratching appears in the current worldwide Nike TV campaign) and film (Pathe's "Suzie Gold"), and has also judged three years-worth of DMC DJ World Finals. Alongside his sometime DJ partner Dan Greenpeace (of XFM's All City Show) he released "Unthugged" in 2003, and provided Pete Tong with his first ever hip-hop Essential Mix for Radio 1 - bootleg copies of which have been doing the rounds ever since. Leaving mixtapes aside for a while, "The Amazing Adventures Of DJ Yoda" came out Antidote in 2006. On this, Yoda provides beats for Biz Markie, 2005 MOBO-winner Sway, Princess Superstar, Jungle Brothers, MC Paul Barman, and a host of other vocalists, and he won't stop until he works with all the cast of Sesame Street on a turntablist DJ track.
Upcoming shows...
Aug 2007 Summer Sundae Festival Leicester
25 Aug 2007 Creamfields Festival Liverpool
26 Aug 2007 Get Loaded In The Park London
2 Sep 2007 Electric Picnic Festival, nr Dublin, Dublin
8 Sep 2007 Bestival, Isle Of Wight, South
14 Sep 2007 Fabric, London
28 Sep 2007 Blowpop, Bristol
2 Oct 2007 Tuesday Club, Sheffield
6 Oct 2007 Bongo Club, Edinburgh
12 Oct 2007 Spectrum at Stealth, Nottingham
13 Oct 2007 Warehouse Party, Manchester
20 Oct 2007 Custard Factory, Birmingham
2 Nov 2007 Opera House, Bournemouth
30 Nov 2007 Digital, Newcastle
1 Dec 2007 Chibuku, Liverpool
JOURNALISM:
Hip-Hop Connection - DJ Editor
IDJ Magazine - Hip-Hop Reviews Editor
FACT - Music reviewer
AWARDS/NOMINATIONS:
2006 Nominated for Best Urban DJ Ibiza DJ Awards
2005 Voted one of the Top 100 Best Things About Dance Music Today in IDJ Magazine
2004 - Hip Hop Connection 2004 Reader's Poll - Top 5 DJs In The World
2004 - Word Magazine votes a skit on "How To Cut and Paste Vol. 1" one of the Top 5 Skits Of All Time, alongside Wu Tang Clan and De La Soul
2002 - Hip-Hop Connection 2002 Reader's Poll - 6th Best DJ in the World
2002 - 10 DJs You Must See Before You Die - Q Magazine (including Fatboy Slim, Paul Oakenfold, etc.)
2001 - Diesel U Music Awards - DMC Scratch DJ Category Award
2001 - UK Hip-Hop Awards - Nominee for Best DJ
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Written: 27th May, 07
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