- DMC World DJ Championships
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DMC World DJ Championships is an annual DJ competition hosted by Disco Mix Club (DMC) which began in 1986. The most recent instance of this competition will take place in New Orleans and in Denver TBA.
Contents
DJ Champions
World DJ Champions
- 1985 - Roger Johnson (UK)
- 1986 - DJ Cheese (USA) - Brought scratching into the battle
- 1987 - Chad Jackson (UK)
- 1988 - DJ Cash Money (USA) - Helped invent the transformer scratch
- 1989 - Cutmaster Swift (UK)
- 1990 - DJ David (Germany)
- 1991 - DJ David (Germany)
- 1992 - Rocksteady DJs (Mix Master Mike, DJ Q-Bert, and DJ Apollo) (USA)
- 1993 - Dreamteam (Mix Master Mike and DJ Q-Bert) (USA)
- 1994 - Dreamteam (Mix Master Mike and DJ Q-Bert) (USA)
- 1995 - Roc Raida (USA) - X-Ecutioners
- 1996 - DJ Noize (Denmark)
- 1997 - DJ A-Trak (Canada) - youngest ever world champion aged 15, Kanye West's tour DJ (This was the first occurrence of a DJ under the age 17+ to compete, his accomplishment has led to a rising of young DJs who are protege's of various renowned DJs)
- 1998 - DJ Craze (USA)
- 1999 - DJ Craze (USA)
- 2000 - DJ Craze (USA)
- 2001 - Plus One (UK) - Scratch Perverts
- 2002 - DJ Kentaro (Japan) - The first Asian winner, DMC has obtained the best score ever.
- 2003 - Dopey (Canada)
- 2004 - ie.Merg (USA)
- 2005 - ie.Merg (USA)
- 2006 - Netik (France)
- 2007 - Rafik (Germany) - Holds record number of 6 world DJ titles
- 2008 - DJ Fly (France)
- 2009 - DJ Shiftee (USA)
- 2010 - Ligone (France)
- 2011 - DJ Vajra (USA)
UK DJ Champions
(and world rankings)
- 1986 - Chad Jackson (2nd)
- 1987 - Chad Jackson (1st)
- 1988 - Cutmaster Swift - En4cers
- 1989 - Cutmaster Swift (1st)
- 1996 - Cutmaster Swift
- 1997 - DJ Pogo (3rd) - En4cers
- 1998 - Prime Cuts - Scratch Perverts
- 1999 - Tony Vegas (2nd) - Scratch Perverts
- 2000 - Mr Thing (3rd) - Former Scratch Pervert
- 2001 - Plus One (1st) - Scratch Pervert
- 2002 - Skully (2nd) - Former DJ to Klashnekoff
- 2003 - Quest (3rd)
- 2004 - DJ Blakey - Worked on the video game, DJ Hero
- 2005 - Muzzell - Releases "Donkey Work" battle breaks (www.myspace.com/muzzell)
- 2006 - Asian Hawk - Disablists
- 2007 - JFB - DJ's with Beardyman, co-runs freestyle jam night "Battlejam"
- 2008 - Skully
- 2009 - Jeppa
- 2010 - Jeppa
- 2011 - JFB
Battle for World Supremacy Champions
- 2000 - Kodh (France)
- 2001 - Netik (France)
- 2002 - Netik (France)
- 2003 - Tigerstyle (UK) - Also won Allies Beatdown and ITF Advancement titles in the same year
- 2004 - Akakabe (Japan)
- 2005 - Pro Zeiko (Germany) - Won 2 ITF titles later in the year
- 2006 - Coma (Japan)
- 2007 - DJ Shiftee (USA)
- 2008 - DJ Switch (UK)
- 2009 - DJ Switch (UK)
- 2010 - DJ Switch (UK)
- 2011 - DJ Nelson (France)
Battle For Supremacy (UK) Champions
(and world rankings)
- 2000 - Skully (2nd)
- 2001 - Madcut
- 2002 - Richie Ruftone
- 2003 - Tigerstyle (1st)
- 2004 - Silk Kuts (2nd)
- 2005 - Matman
- 2006 - DJ Switch - youngest UK champion of any category aged 17
- 2007 - DJ Switch
- 2008 - DJ Switch (1st)
- 2009 - DJ Rasp - Also won UK I.D.A. title later that year
- 2010 - Deceptakut
Battle For Supremacy (US) Champions
- 2000 - Supa Dave
- 2001 - Klever
- 2002 - Kico
- 2003 - ie.Merg
- 2004 - ie.Merg
- 2005 - I-Dee
- 2006 - Etronik
- 2007 - DJ Shiftee
- 2008 - SPS
- 2009 - Supreme
- 2010 - Solo
World Team Champions
- 1999 - Scratch Perverts (UK) - Prime Cuts, Tony Vegas, Mr Thing, First Rate
- 2000 - The Allies (USA/Canada) - Craze, A Trak
- 2001 - Perverted Allies (USA/Canada/UK) - Prime Cuts, Tony Vegas, Craze, Infamous
- 2002 - Birdy Nam Nam (France) - Crazy B, Need, Lil Mike, Pone - Now releasing album material past their self-titled debut
- 2003 - C2C (France) - Pfel, Atom, Greem, 20Syl
- 2004 - C2C (France)
- 2005 - C2C (France)
- 2006 - C2C (France)
- 2007 - Kireek (Japan) - Hi-C, Yasa
- 2008 - Kireek (Japan)
- 2009 - Kireek (Japan)
- 2010 - Kireek (Japan)
- 2011 - Kireek (Japan)
UK Team Champions
(and world rankings)
- 1999 - The En4cers/Scratch Perverts (1st)
- 2000 - The Mixologists (3rd)
- 2001 - The Mixologists (2nd)
- 2002 - Flaredycats
- 2003 - Truesicians
- 2004 - The Disablists
- 2005 - The Disablists (3rd)
- 2006 - The Disablists (2nd)
- 2007 - The Disablists
- 2008 - Bionic Stylus
- 2009 - Bionic Stylus (3rd)
- 2010 - Bionic Stylus (3rd)
US Team Champions
- 1999 - The Allies
- 2000 - The Allies
- 2001 - Superfriends
- 2002 - Evolution DJs
- 2003 - Evolution DJs
- 2004 - Evolution DJs
- 2005 - Battle-Star
- 2006 - Animal Crackers
- 2007 - ?
- 2008 - Angry EXs
- 2009 - Battle-Star
External links
- DMC World DJ Championships
- HHC Digital's special DMC retrospective issue
- YouTube - The Disablists 2006 DMC routine
- YouTube - The Disablists 2005 DMC routine
- DMC History - DMC World DJ Championships (official championship history)
- Conspiracy Worldwide Radio October 2010 DMC Interviews with Sally DMC, Cutmaster Swift and Q-Bert
- Feature article on 2010 DMC World Championships at KOKO, London
- A feature on DMC at RechargedMagazine.com
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