DJ D.Beam Showcase @ Scratch Invaders, Barcelona, Spain 16th Nov '14

I was quite excited (to say the least) about this event, from the moment the organizers of Barcelona's monthly open-turntable scratch sessions @ Scratch Invaders announced it - D.Beam is definitely one of the worldwide Scratch Elite, I think I'd be hard-pushed to find anyone to challenge me on that!

DJ Swet kills the Showcase @ Scratch Invaders, Barcelona

A new monthly open decks night has started in Barcelona called Scratch Invaders, and whilst I'm happy to support anything scratch-related anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to hear Barcelona's own DJ Swet, fresh from releasing his banging debut scratch album "Agoraphobia", would be putting on a showcase.

New Mix streaming tonight, tune in!

Hey everyone - so I did a guest mix for the guys at Built to Last, pure 90's Golden Era Boom Bap ish and it's going to be on their radio show tonight, 8-9pm CEST

Choicest Cuts Vol 14 Best of May 2014 Hip Hop Mix

Choicest Cuts Best of May 2014 Hip Hop Mix by Abbfunk on Mixcloud

Quality over quantity this month. Not too many releases found their way to me this month so I didn't go looking, when I do this you can find that the quality lowers and you inevitably give yourself much more work to do with a much longer playlist. Keep it simple and (try to!) stick to deadlines!

(Recommended Mix Series) New Mix - Lord Finesse "Live from the Boogie Blind Residence"

Wow, the Funkyman digs seriously deep on this one, effortlessly gliding through original breaks you won't have heard before, to very few that you have….

Choicest Cuts Hip Hop Mix Volume 12 Best of Feb & March 2014

This is the first month I put a little intro together for the Choicest Cuts mix series. I've been collecting relevant samples i could use for a while but it takes some time to put them all together…

(Recommended Mix Series) New mix "Nighttime Gangster Jazz" by Blood Money

Woke up to a nice recommendation on Ego Trip's site today - Blood Money are a fresh duo made up of R&B maestro Tobes of Saprkle Motion and DJ and crate digger Wax On. Together they give us "Nighttime Gangster Jazz : Music for Smooth Criminals".

King of the Beats - Dope Website

Check out Pritt Kalsi's Site where he regularly posts great updates from the world of Hip Hop, Beatmaking and Sampling, King of The Beats

(VHS Archive) Vin-Roc(ks) the spot! (Video)

Few DJs rock the set better than Vinroc. Enjoy this old footage of him performing a dope old school hip hop set around 2000 at Scala in London.

(Recommended Mix Series) DJ Somar - Clean Hands Volume 3

3rd instalment of his Clean Hands series, and a nice solid mix all the way through from Tulsa's DJ Somar...