The "WTK WORLDWIDE SCRATCH BATTLE 2010" is an international online scratch battle.

That battle will carefully be judged by a professional jury.

The concept is simple:

Each contestant must download the WildStyle looper 3   which contains several beats, record a video set of 1min30 and then send a video of his performance using one of the 15 proposed beats.

Youtube and Beat4Battle forum will be hosting the videos of all participants.

Best sets will be rewarded with prizes from our partners. (Vestax, Serato, Pro-x-fade)

The promotion of the event will be done via several types of media such as websites, specialized press, blogs, specialized forums, webzines to make sure to cover the largest number of participants.

How to Sign up :

return the registration form duly completed at :

- wtkbattle@hotmail.fr

/ "\ The registration forms should be returned by March 31, 2010 /" \

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Rules :

1 / Any Dj of any country can sign up

2 / Dj's must have a scratch routine of 1min30s on the beat of their choice but it has to from the Wildstyle looper 3.

3 / The scratch routine must be video recorder in "one shot" and sent on youtube with the title and the following tag: WTK WORLDWIDE SCRATCH BATTLE 2010: DJ "YourName" before April 30, 2010.

4 / All post production work, video or sound editing will automatically result in disqualification.
However we'll recommend the sound output to be recorded seperately for a quality purpose. Please make sure the recording is done under decent condition; Bad lighting/framing can be harmful to your performance.

From Rob Swift's forthcoming album, The Architect.

THE RELEASE
You can find 12 songs on the album of different styles and forms. It contains dark, jazzy scratch compositions as well as some more danceable songs. The one element tying them all together is the way they were produced.
Every single drum, bass or guitar sample was cut up using just a mixer and a turntable. So this album takes the rare title “100% SCRATCHED”.
It was, however, important to Jimi that his music appealed to people outside of the djing or turntablism scene. The result is an extraordinary project which will excite turntablists and listeners of instrumental hip-hop alike.

THE ARTWORK
But the music is not the only special feature of this project. The cover of the record shows a 29-picture comicstrip with a thrilling story of Jimi escaping from the dreaded Tokyo mobster Matsumoto.
The comic is associated to the samples used in the songs, so you can read the comic while listening to its “soundtrack”. The Drawings were done by Jimi himself during a one-month drawing odyssey.