DMC World DJ Championships

I've been kind of thinking about how to categorize them and stuff, but really is one of those people that's just in a category of one.

Multiple DMC champion, absolute turntable and scratch legend, DJ Qbert.

How are you doing today? Amazing.

How are you doing? Yeah, I'm good.

And we were like the oddballs.

But we knew it was fucking cool and shit.

So what sort of hip hop was it that first got you? Was it like run DMC and stuff? Or was it, because I guess like before that, a lot of it was like the disco stuff.

I guess the earliest for me was because I'm from the Bay Area.

This Adelaide resident has traveled the world to say the least.

i met him in 1999 at the dmc world championships where he was like casually hanging out in the bronx with people like lord finesse and beat knox making collaborations etc then forging his way across landscapes to compton where connecting with ace alone and ab rude cannibal ox being part of that fraternity this is a beat digger in his own right an mc not to be messed with Goes by the name of Delta.

How are you, my brother?

I'm good, brother.

Yeah, so I started as a mobile DJ.

I entered the DMC Mixing Championships when I was 15. which kind of got me noticed by a couple of the judges that were judging at the time, Les Toth and Andy Van, who were and still are, you know, quite influential names in the local scene.

And that got my foot in the door to DJing at clubs like the Metro, at Metro and iClub, back in the old days in Bourke Street.

I was 18, like just legal age to be at the venue and I was playing at the venue.

Phil was just such a technically brilliant guy, not just as a DJ but just with technology.

He fully embraced it and I think it was a huge loss to all of us when Phil left because But look, I want to go back a little bit.

In 1988, you famously won the DJ at DMC mixing competition aged just 15.

Yeah,