Scratch Perverts

Scratch Perverts
Prime Cuts, Plus One and Tony Vegas at BUSC, April 2008
Background information
Origin	Scotland
Genres	Electronica Drum & Bass Hip Hop
Years active	1996 – present
Members
Tony Vegas Prime Cuts Plus One
Former members
Mr Thing Harry Love Killa Kela Renegade First Rate

The Scratch Perverts are a collective of turntablist DJs from Scotland, formed in 1996 by Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts and DJ Renegade.

Biography

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The Scratch Perverts originally consisted of 4 members; Tony Vegas, Renegade, First Rate and Mr Thing. The Scratch Perverts later expanded to an 8-member crew with the addition of Prime Cuts, Harry Love, Killa Kela and Plus One. The collective split for a short period in 2000, then reformed with just 3 members; Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts and Plus One. The other members did not reform due to artistic differences^{[citation needed]}, and have gone on to pursue individual projects.

The Scratch Perverts have garnered widespread acclaim. The team won the first DMC Team championships in 1999, claiming it again in the 'Perverted Allies' alias (a fusion of the Perverts and the Allies DJ crews). Additionally Prime Cuts claimed 2 consecutive ITF World Scratching titles, and Plus One won the Vestax battle in 2000, not begetting his returning the DMC World crown to the UK after a hiatus of 10 years. Their technical contributions include the 'feedback' technique and the Euro scratch amongst others.^{[citation needed]}

They have now retired indefinitely from competition and gone on to regular live DJing, touring around the world & holding a residency at Fabric in London. They have also gone on to producing their own music, describing hip hop as being "a celebration of all kinds of music just by its very nature". Their influences have been said to be 'old school' artists such as Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa in addition to present day acts such as Dillinja, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Aphex Twin.^{[citation needed]}

The Scratch Perverts are also notable for their adoption of drum and bass and feature it heavily in their DJ sets. They contributed to the track "Get Ill" as part of an album track for D&B producers Ed Rush and Optical.

The collective has been known to use MySpace in order to advertise both themselves and their music.

The Scratch Perverts are also featured as a contributing artist in the new Activision music game, DJ Hero,^[1] in which they have the hardest DJ setlist in the game featuring a remix of 'Groundhog' by Noisia and their origional mix 'Beats and Pieces' amongst various other tracks.

Discography

Mix CDs

• B Boys Revenge - History In The Makin - X:treme Records (1998)
• Badmeaningood Vol.4 - Ultimate Dilemma (2003)
• FabricLive.22 - Fabric (2005)
• Fabric Big Issue CD (free with the Big Issue September 24, 2005)
• Watch The Ride - Harmless Records (2007)
• Beatdown - Fabric Records (2009)

Singles

• Come Get It with Time Scratch Perverts Records (Limited edition Promotional copy) (25 October 2004)
• Stand By Supercharged Records (2007)

Featured in

• UNKLE vs. Scratch Perverts - The Breezeblock on BBC Radio 1, January 2, 1999
• DJ Hero
• Ed Rush & Optical - The Original Doctor Shade - Get Ill (feat. Scratch Perverts & MC Ryme Tyme), Mix-Cd, 2003

Reference

External links

• Scratch Perverts at MySpace
• Scratch Perverts at Discogs