The Mixtape Roundtable Pt. 1 feat. the Legendary DJ Showtime, Lazy K and Smooth Denali
DJ Showtime, Lazy K, Smooth Denali
WORDS: Rob Haney
from Issue 8
It’s a warm afternoon in August and above the press of traffic on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, a new generation is learning how to mix and scratch. In a large room at Scratch DJ Academy, a group of aspiring turntablists is making noise that can only be called organized confusion, but this represents the hope for a whole future of DJs who will possess the skills necessary to keep the art alive. In a culture that is increasingly dependent on technology and gadgetry to perform tasks that otherwise required manual skill, our aim today is to find out if survival of the mixtape DJ is possible, and how that survival can be accomplished without selling out everything that the original DJs stood for… (more…)