2Tuff

2Tuff Crew is a collective founded in 1994 to bring drum'n'bass music to Washington, DC and establish a d'n'b scene. 2Tuff Productions has been active ever since throwing one-off events, weekly parties and taking their sound on road nationally and worldwide. The 2Tuff Crew was founded by Andrew Cerutti and DJ Slant in 1994. Soon after, DJ Stress, MC Mecha, and MC Nes joined 2Tuff. 2Tuff presently consists of DJ's SLANT, BJOO and JAHWEI. 2Tuff held a Wednesday night residency at Red for many years, most recently hosting the event "The Rudebwoy Shuffle." They also hosted one of the first all drum & bass weekly events, in the Washington, DC area, called "Urban Space" which consistently booked international drum & bass DJs.

1995 saw 2Tuff throw a series of underground warehouse parties which were the first ever drum and bass events in the Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia areas. After throwing a number of events at a Warehouse north of Howard University at Georgia Avenue and Lamont Street, 2Tuff joined forces with Lonnie Fisher of Ultraworld in Baltimore and threw the first 3 drum and bass events in Baltimore. These events were the first drum and bass events on the East Coast to feature large line-ups with talent from London, the birthplace of drum and bass music. DJ Trace was a regular at these events which featured the US debut of numerous artists such as Grooverider, MC GQ and MC Rymetyme. Other artists featured at these early events included DJ_Rap, LTJ_Bukem, MC Conrad, DB, Dieselboy, Gunsmoke Karl K and many more.

Currently, 2Tuff hosts reggae events with See-I and SOJA. MC Mecha has co-produced with Josh Clark and Rob Fairchild under the guise of Sinthetix. DJ Stress is currently a resident DJ at The Secret Night of Science in New York City.

Accomplishments

*First ever US promoter to book Grooverider in December 1995
*First ever North American Promoter to book Ed_Rush in December 1996
*Urban Space Weekly Party 1997-2000
*The Rudebwoy Shuffle Weekly Party 2003-2006
*International tours of South Africa, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan [http://music.goo.ne.jp/artist/ARTLISD137616/] , United States [http://www.breakbeat.co.uk/reviews/worldus.html] and Europe
*Launched and Hosted "Pressure" Drum and Bass show on XM_Radio Channel 80 - The Move
*2005 Buzzlife Battle of the DJ's Winner - BJOO

External links

* [http://www.2tuff.com Official 2Tuff website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/djslant Slant's MySpace page]
* [http://www.myspace.com/deejaystress DJ Stress's MySpace page]
* [http://www.myspace.com/e7s MC Nes's MySpace page]
* [http://www.myspace.com/bjoo bjoo's MySpace page]
* [http://glamhub.com/2007/11/dj_bjoo/ "Feeling the Beat with DJ bjoo," Glam Hub, November 2007 article]
* [http://www.gazette.net/stories/041206/potonew203044_31951.shtml "Drum-and-bass DJ breaks barriers," The Gazette (Maryland), April 2006 article on bjoo as 2005 DJ Battle winner]
* [http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200810021113/ENTERTAINMENT02/81002029 DJ Slant going on Tour with SEE-I]
* [http://www.thunderballdc.com/remix_slant.html Daydream Single produced by Slant]
* [http://www.knowledgemag.co.uk/features.asp?SectionID=1031&uid=&MagID=1046&ReviewID=1360&PageNumber=1 Tech Itch USA Tour coordinated and supported by 2Tuff]
* [http://www.breakbeat.co.uk/reviews/event-30july2000.html Virus Showcase 2000 Event Review]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sinthetix Sinthetix on Discogs]