Community Skratch Tour 09 – The video

We return to this side of the pond with a brand new video from the Community Skratch collective, this time summing up their recent 09 tour which saw the crew, and friends, take to various pubs and live venues up and down England for some serious skratch action.

The tour rolled through the country in August, at the height of England’s summer (ie. it wasn’t raining), with the following skratchers packed into a van: Grandeurs of Delusion, Blam and Plato (from Norway), Blood One, Discuss, Clockwork, Lone Wolf, Vince Mack Mahon (from Ireland), Fluins and Crkrik (from Germany) and Fidel Cutstro. As you can imagine it was a rather messy affair, and they captured it all on tape and edited it down to 30 mins of madness, and music, for your enjoyment. So if you missed it this is the perfect chance to see what the fuss is all about, and if you were at any of the dates it’s the perfect way to remind yourself just how much fun you had.

2tall and myself went down to the last date, in Brighton for the BBQ event, and it was a blast to say the least. It’s been a long time since I’ve enjoyed myself at a skratch event like this, and this is most likely due to the fact that it wasn’t a ‘skratch’ event as such, which is where the guys have really hit it on the head for me. They’re there, doing what they love, for nothing more than the love of it, and that translates with the crowds. Others need to take notice.

As mentioned the video is a 30 min edit of what took place during those 6 days, with plenty of live footage, including the superb live show by Jimmy the Penguin, behind the scenes and crowd reactions (that dude talking about dj battles has a point).

You can download the video below and preview a small part of it above (the excellent ‘Chestpiece’ track by G.O.D). It comes in at 218mb, .m4v format optimised for iPod and iTunes viewing, but will work with all standard media players as long as you have the latest codecs.

Big big thanks to the Community Skratch crew for their love and support. Shouts to Rich and Kirky for the video/photo work. Remember you can buy the latest releases from G.O.D and Vince Mac Mahon over at the Nozl shop, and look out for audio from them and more in the next podcast. And thanks to Mark at Skratchworx for the photo!

Download the video here (right click and save as)

Beat4Battle TV: Japan – Episode 1

Ok so we’re still a little late with the long overdue ‘normal’ podcast show and resuming of the Mr Trick Years broadcast, but in the meantime we’re keeping you entertained with the first episode of the new B4B TV from Yoshi, this time shining a light on the Japanese scratch scene.

This first episode acts as a teaser of sorts too, as the series won’t actually start as such until next month. Yoshi’s moving to Europe for the year to study and so with the move and other important things on the line the actual B4B TV:Japan series won’t be broadcast weekly until later in October.

Here’s what Yoshi had to say about this particular episode, which features a rather unknown Tokyo skratch kid by the name of Lunch:

I was introduced to Lunch by a good friend of mine, LAN, who competed with him in a DJ battle called “Scratch Colosseum” that took place in early June this year. It turns out that Lunch is a student of Miyajima, another friend of mine and whom I consider to be one of if not the best scratcher in the world. This video was shot at Lunch’s friend’s house (Lunch said his own place was too messy to be filmed!) in Hon-Atsugi on the 30th July 2009. Please sit back, relax and enjoy the show!

Actually another change to the series, apart from the geographical setting, is the decision to keep episodes down to 10 mins in length. This is taking in feedback from various viewers and others. It also means the podcasts should be a little easier on your desktop/iPod/portable viewer!

This episode is 10 minutes long, and comes in at 106mb. As with all our video podcasts it’s optimised for iPod and iTunes (.m4v file) viewing but can be played with all standard media players as long as you have the latest codecs.

You can preview/stream it above and download it right below. To make sure you don’t miss an episode subscribe to our podcast feed on iTunes or in any feed reader/aggregator/podcatcher.

Download Beat4Battle TV:Japan ep 1 (right click and save as)

Beat4Battle TV: Japan – Episode 1
Featuring: DJ Lunch
Filmed and Edited by Yoshi.