DJ Rhettmatic (born Nazareth Nirza ; May 10, 1969) is a producer , disc jockey and member and part creator of Southern California's first turntable band, the Beat Junkies .
13-623: Rhettmatic began his DJ career in 1983, with Double Platinum, a DJ group based out of Cerritos, CA. Rhettmatic highly acknowledges fellow Beat Junkie member, DJ Curse, as his leading mentor. As Curse shared his turntable exhibition, involving scratches and other DJ techniques, Rhettmatic's interest in DJing formed, allowing him to take hold of his musical passion. Rhettmatic claimed the titles of Disco Mix Club (DMC) West Coast Champion (1996) and International Turntablist Federation (ITF) 2x Team World Champion (1997/1998). Rhettmatic also helped found in 1994 and
26-468: A magazine covering all dance music and club culture. Mixmag , in association with its original publishing company, DMC Publishing, released a series of CDs under the "Mixmag Live" heading. The magazine, which reached a circulation of up to 70,000 copies , was later sold to EMAP Ltd. in the mid-1990s. In 1996, an American version titled Mixmag USA was launched. It was renamed Mixer after the UK edition of Mixmag
39-420: A print magazine, it has branched into dance events, including festivals and club nights. The first issue of Mixmag was printed on 1 February 1983 as a 16-page black-and-white magazine published by Disco Mix Club , a DJ mailout service. The first cover featured American music group Shalamar . When house music began in the 1980s, editor and DJ Dave Seaman turned the magazine from a newsletter for DJs into
52-498: Is an annual DJ competition founded by the Disco Mix Club (DMC) which began in 1985. It has been described as a "pre-eminent competitive DJ event". Competitors are each given 6 minutes to perform, with winners selected at the end. Championships were sponsored internationally by Technics , but in 2010 Technics was replaced by Serato and Rane . Since 2011, the vinyl emulation software Serato Scratch Live can be used during
65-555: Is the DJ/producer for the LA based underground hip hop supergroup, the Visionaries . He has worked with many in the hip hop community, from the likes of Peanut Butter Wolf , Talib Kweli , Madlib , DJ Premier , Cypress Hill , Mayer Hawthorne and Adrian Younge . His musical masterpieces include "E=MC5" by KeyKool & Rhettmatic featuring Ras Kass, LMNO, Voodoo and Meen Green, and "From
78-515: The DMC Battle for World Supremacy and the 2017 IDA Technical to become the youngest person to win a world championship, was the first winner from the Southern hemisphere. He also won the 2018 DMC Battle for Global Supremacy, which he failed to defend in 2019 when he was beaten by DJ Matsunaga in what Mixmag has described as one of the "best DJ scratch battles". The competition was founded in 1985 by
91-604: The Disco Mix Club. The club was founded by Tony Prince in 1983 as a DJ remix label which targeted professional disc jockeys and enthusiasts instead of the mass market. It resold megamixes and remixes , and published a weekly magazine. The company also began the magazine Mixmag before it was sold to the British media group EMAP in January 1997. The club founded the world championship event "for DJs to test their skills against their peers". Musicians who contributed megamixes to
104-620: The Ground Up" b/w "Ubiquity" by The Associates featuring LMNO & KeyKool of the Visionaries, Rakaa Iriscience & Evidence of Dilated Peoples, and Divine Styler. In December 2005, Rhettmatic was J Dilla 's tour show DJ in Europe, for his last tour ever, along with Frank n Dank and Phat Kat . Rhettmatic has also worked with and done production and scratches for Talib Kweli, OhNo, M.E.D., Aloe Blacc (Stones Throw), Prince Po (Organized Konfusion), RBX (The Dogg Pound), Noelle Scaggs of Fitz &
117-669: The Tantrums and New York hip hop supergroup The Brown Bag AllStars , as well as having made mixtapes and podcast mixes for Ghostface Killah , Guilty Simpson and Stones Throw Records . His most recent projects include the Crown Royale album with Michigan's wordsmith Buff1 , a DJ/percussionist show/mixtape project with Eric Bobo of Cypress Hill and a joint project with legendary Californian MC, Ras Kass called 'A.D.I.D.A.S.' Rhettmatic currently hosts Beat Junkie Radio on Dash Radio . Disco Mix Club The DMC World DJ Championships
130-516: The company included Alan Coulthard, Les Adams (who was a judge on some of the earlier DMC championships), Chad Jackson , Dave Seaman , Steve Anderson , Peter Slaghuis , Paul Dakeyne , and Ben Liebrand . The Disco Mix Club itself went into voluntary liquidation in April 2023. Mixmag Mixmag is a British electronic dance and clubbing magazine published in London. Launched in 1983 as
143-627: The competition in addition to traditional vinyl. The first championship, held in the London Hippodrome in 1985, was won by Londoner Roger Johnson. From 1992 to 1994 American DJ Qbert dominated the competition, until being asked to step down in order to "level the playing field". In 2017 the Bronx-born Puerto Rican DJ Perly became the first woman to win the DMC United States finals. She went on to earn fourth place in
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#1732851255326156-493: The world finals in London later that year, the highest-placing female to that date. In 2020 and 2021, the tournament was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The 2021 event also attracted media attention due to one of the competitors being a 9 year-old girl from Dubai. Kalib Strickland from New Zealand, under the name DJ K-Swizz, won both the 2022 and the 2023 world events. Strickland, who had previously at age 14 won both
169-472: Was sold to EMAP. It ceased publication altogether in 2003. After a fall in sales in 2003, Mixmag was acquired by Development Hell, in 2005. In 2007, Nick DeCosemo became editor. Duncan Dick became editor in April 2015. Patrick Hinton became editor in August 2022. In 2012, The Guardian collaborated with Mixmag on a survey of British drug-taking habits. The magazine paused its print edition during
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