THE BIOG........
DeeJay Random first started scratching in 1984/85. since then, he has gone from strength to strength. From winning his first DMC competition to the present day, DeeJay Random has branched out and encompassed ALL forms and styles of djing. His competition history is listed below.....1989 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships. HEAT WINNER (welsh DJ champion). 4th placed regional finalist.
1990 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships. HEAT WINNER (welsh DJ champion). 2nd placed regional finalist. 6th placed UK finalist.
1990 DMC European championships. 4th and 5th in Amsterdam and Germany. (respectively).
1991 DMC/Technics UK DJ championships. 3rd placed area heat.
1995 Gemini DJ championships.
1996 Vestax UK DJ championships.
1996 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships. 4th placed heat. 4th placed uk finals.
1997 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships. JUDGE, London heat.
1997 DJ Pogos "Battle Royale".
1998 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships.
1998 DJ Pogos "Battle Royale".
1999 DMC UK Team Championships. 4th.
2000 DMC UK Team Championships. 3rd.
2000 ITF Eastern hemisphere finals, scratching category.
2000 ITF Eastern hemisphere finals, team category, joint 4th.
2000 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships. JUDGE.
2000 DMC World Supremacy eliminations. JUDGE.
2001 DMC UK team championships. JUDGE.
2001 DMC UK battle for World Supremacy. JUDGE.
2001 ITF UK advancement finals. JUDGE.
2001 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships. JUDGE.
2002 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships. JUDGE.
2002 DMC UK Battle for Supremacy. JUDGE.
2002 DMC UK Team finals. JUDGE.
2002 Turntable Techniques Battle. Copenhagen, Denmark.
2003 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships. JUDGE.
2004 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships. JUDGE.
2004 DMC Battle for World Supremacy. JUDGE.
2004 DMC World Team finals. JUDGE.
2005 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championships. JUDGE.
2005 DMC/Technics UK DJ Championship finals. JUDGE.
2005 DMC UK Battle for supremacy. JUDGE.
2005 DMC UK Team Battle. JUDGE.
2005 DMC Battle for world supremacy. JUDGE
2005 DMC World team battle. JUDGE.
DeeJay Random cut his teeth in the competition world and brings that influence to his sets. Having been in the game for nearly 20 years, his experience, knowledge and originality are second to none (some of the competitions he is asked to judge reflect this). Easily at home playing jazz/funk/original breakbeats as he is hip hop, he can rock a party or kut records to pieces! His wholly original style of playing is in keeping with the way that hip-hop sets have been played since Kool Herc, Bambaataa and Jazzy Jay etc kicked it off all those years ago....block party style. Funk, hip hop, jazz, breakbeats are all thrown together in a sensible way to ensure there is a piece of the pie for EVERYONE. He has cut with and supported some of the biggest names in the game including Jazzy Jeff, The Jungle Brothers, Jazzy Jay, Grand wizard Theodore, Dj Noize and Supernatural, The Enforcers, The Scratch Perverts, Mixologists, P-Trix, Lootpack, J-Zone, The Beat Junkies, Gunkhole (d-styles etc) and played in some of the biggest and best venues in the country including The Jazz cafe, The Tate modern, The Empire ballroom, Guilfest, Mass, Turnmills as well as residencies for the Fez club and Squarebar and spreading hip hop madness all over Europe including Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany......the list goes on.....
As well as an accomplished dj and turntablist, he also plays turntables with the band "Don Piranha" (Guilfest, Ambient picnic, Mass, Jazz cafe), cutting beats, vocals , percussion etc. a headlong, crashing funk set that moves away from the traditional "scratching with the band set-up". DeeJay Random has already appeared on "pubs, drunks and hip hop" by Diversion Tactics ("Roll Call" and "pubs, drunks and hip hop"), "madame swish" by Labrat, "serious" by Verb T and Dr zygote and "eye to eye" by The Procryptix. Releases are expected around spring 2004. recording projects for 2005 include....
Diversion Tactics.
Ruff physics.
Procryptix.
Animal Tag Team.
Mike Bandoni.
Scratch Perverts.
Don Piranha.
The Jungle Brothers
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Dr zygote
A.S.B.O...The mixtape
SliceAnice The mixtape
DeeJay Random has worked in some of the most prestigious musical colleges in the country, as a masterclass lecturer and consultant, including the Academy of contemporary music (Vestax DJ academy) and is currently working with Urban development, based in Newham, East London, lookahead housing and care, Surrey borough council, woking youth centre, stanwell youth centre, staines council and various councils and local authorities putting on dj/scratching workshops.
****( a full c.v. and enhanced CRB disclosure form is available on request for anyone interested in booking DeeJay Random and anyone working in private/state education, please email DeeJay Random for more details)****
TO BOOK DEEJAY RANDOM, THE STEEL DEVILS, OR DON PIRANHA, E-MAIL DEEJAY RANDOM FOR DETAILS. mrdjrandom@yahoo.co.uk