DJ battles might be dead… but at least they’ve got a sense of humour

It’s hardly going to be news round these parts that our opinion of DJ battles is somewhat ‘negative’ and along the lines of ‘can we f*cking move on now please’. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t got love. We do, always have and always will, we’re just not going to pretend it ain’t a pain. All this to say that I was quite surprised by a fairly random email from the French guys who have seemingly taken over the IDA championships (previously ITF, remember them?). Random because all the email offered was a bunch of youtube links, leading me to think ‘oh god no not another scratch demo that is going to make me want to tear my ears out’. Still I clicked it and was pleasantly surprised to see a fairly surreal, and quite funny video which basically takes the concept of ‘micro-trottoir’ (which is French for vox pop if you will) and applies it to scratching. Which is funny, especially when the majority of those interviewed seem to include women, random dudes in shops and scratch DJs only too happy to play the game.

Part 1 is above, and part 2 is below. It would seem this also serves as an advert of sorts for the 2009 French IDA Finals, so I guess if you’re still up for spending a night with a lot of guys in a room listening to other guys scratching, then you might want to check it. Oh and if anyone reads this please think before commenting or emailing me to say that battles blah blah blah, because as much as I do think battles are dead, this is also tongue in cheek. So step away from the keyboard and go have a cut or something.

In related news look out for more ‘The Mr Trick Years’ shows very soon, we had a bit of an issue with our promised weekly podcasts, but we’re working on fixing that and putting together a few other regular shows and specials. More soon we promise!