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Cue's Records DJ Battle 1998 Part 2.mov

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Cue's Records DJ Battle 1998 Part 1

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DJ Quest, Eddie Def & DJ Cue - Cosmic Parasite | tablist.net

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DJ Quest, Eddie Def & DJ Cue - Cosmic Parasite | tablist.net:
"Cosmic Parasite is a collaboration between Dj Quest, Eddie Def & Dj Cue. Quest cuts it up over beats & pieces put together by Eddie Def and more drums & such by Dj Cue. The album is clearly intended to be listened to from beginning to end like a nice mixtape. The individual tracks could stand on their own but when their put together its so damn good. It will be available on iTunes & other digi shops on October 31. "

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Public Enemy - Terminator X to the Edge of Panic

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Quest Fest 2010

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Hip Hop Slam >>> Articles / Interviews / Stories

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Hip Hop Slam >>> Articles / Interviews / Stories
DJ Eddie Def defies description. He's like some kind of hip-hop renegade from the Twilight Zone. His music is neither here, nor there and yet somehow manages to fuck you up in the head. He is simply The Last Kreep.

Back in the day, before the whole turntablist movement, there was hip-hop. B-boys were busting moves, writers were bombing trains, MCs were kicking freestyle rhymes, and DJs were rocking the house. Eddie Def grew up in that scene, the old school, and you can hear it, physically in his music, and aesthetically in his style.

"I try to do megamixes," says Eddie Def of his Hemp Lords mixtapes series. "It would be like 15 minutes of just crucial shit: like drum and bass, the Beastie Boys, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, fucking Slayer, Metallica, Nirvana – just everything collided in one, like 15 minutes of mayhem.".......

La Cocina Food Festival 2011 Street Food Festival

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Come see DJ's Quest, Cue, Eddie K, Marz, 2 Fresh, Polo G, Mista B, Celskii, Lady Fingaz, Jesse Martinez, Baysik, Trainn, Ewok, 3D, and Hando at La Cocina's 2011 Street Food Festival.

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Welcome to La Cocina's 2011-Street Food Festival - music page. This year's line up will include some of San Francisco's top selectors and legends of the underground DJ culture as well youth DJ's from Horizons Unlimited/DJ Project, a community based organization which offers entrepreneurial and empowerment programs to the local youth. Please come prepared to have fun and be part of one of the Mission's largest block party's as our DJ's serve a healthy mix of Top 40, Modern, Traditional, World, Electronic & Urban sounds to fulfill your dancing appetite. Topping off this musical-food pyramid, will be a series of local bands and special guest musicians from our flavor-full neighborhood.

RIPPED OPEN BY METAL EXPLOSIONS

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Check out the blog by DJ Eons. Always a good write up and always good finds.

DJ Vinroc 2001 @ east meets west show in SFC

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Third Sight - Rhymes Like A Scientist

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Roughneck Jihad feat. D-Styles - Microphone Cow Puncher

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Dj Raw B & Luke Sick - Eric Benemy

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MOTEL CREW-RETURN OF THE DOPE FIEND BEAT [Megakut 2010]

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Sacred Hoop - Will you please let me sleep

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Let Me Sleep - Bachelor (Z-mainey and Vrse )

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Sacred Hoop feat Z-Man - Cremona

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z-man "crumb of the bay"

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Z MAN - CUPCAKIN' (OFFICIAL VIDEO IN HD)

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DJ Quest at DJs For Life - December 2005

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(Scratching) @---OaklynTV---@ (Dj Quest)

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GHETTO STASH DJ Quest & Eddie K

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DJ Quest Live @ Amoeba S.F.

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DJ Quest Live at Club 6

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DJ Quest - Wikipedia

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DJ Quest

DJ Quest (Carlos Aguilar) was born in 1973 in El Salvador. While there are others using the name 'DJ Quest', Carlos Aguilar has most likely had the moniker the longest,.^[1] He is considered one of the most skilled and reputable DJ and innovators in the field of Turntablism.^[1] DJ Quest has contributed to the hip hop DJ art form by bringing power scratching to the battle scene. Quest, a battle veteran of the internationally known DMC, New Music Seminar and countless others has been crowned champ on several occasions.

Quest and his family moved to the San Francisco Bay area in the early 1980s where he was introduced to Electro or Electro Funk artist Nucleus, Kraftwerk and Afrika Bambaataa. He soon bought his first mixer, a Pyramid 4700 and accidentally hooked up the Turntables in reverse.

In a strange coincidence,^[1] Quest coined the term “Hamster style”, which refers to the reverse set up. While performing on the popular local hip hop show "Home Turf" in 1992 he demonstrated his skills. When DJ Kevy Kev attempted to use Quest set up and could not understand it, Quest blerted out that it was "Hamster style". This is the actual origin of the term and the switch that is included in almost every scratch mixer sold today. Today the term remains popular and is recognized by DJs worldwide, and ultimately led to companies like the Rane Corp. and Vestax including him in their DJ roster and list of endorsees.

Quest, one of the founding members of Bullet Proof Scratch Hamsters/Space Travelerz (DJ Quest, Eddie Def, DJ Cue, Eddie K,and DJ Mars) creators of “Hamster Breaks” (the first battle style record on the market),^[1] expanded his musical horizons in 1996 by forming the experimental jazz/hip-hop group Livehuman in San Francisco, California. Since its formation, the trio has self produced recordings for the British label Fat Cat Records, the Bay Area’s Hip-Hop Slam, Matador Records, and their own independent Cosmic Records. This new artistic outlet gave Quest the opportunity to display his abilities all over the US, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Highlighted performances include Roskilde Music Fest in Denmark; Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland; Transmusicales Music Fest in Renn, France, and the DJs For Life conference in the UK. Aside of his Livehuman expeditions, Quest has accompanied Quannum artist, Latyrx, The Bomb Hip-Hop DJ’s, Future Primitive Sound Session, Space Travelerz, and has toured the world as a solo DJ. In the summer of 2007, Quest joined Mike Patton’s Peeping Tom (band) as tour DJ for Australia.

More recently, Quest has come off a west coast tour as part of a DJ/MC duo with Apostle of Heavyweight Dub Champion. In his 20 plus years of DJ experience, Quest has also collaborated on recordings with artist such as Dan 'The Automator' Nakamura (Bear Witness II), Blackalicious, Rob Swift (X-ecutioners), Z Man, Sacred Hoop, Eddie K, Topper, DJ Zeph, DJ Q-Bert (Do It Yourself, vol. 2), Wide Hive Records collective “Variable Unit” and The DJ Project.

In the documentary Questosahn,^[1] Quest mentions finishing his full length album “Questolous”, an assortment of collaborations with various DJs and producers highlighting scratch diversity, due February 2008. Quest is also featured in the Doug Pray-directed documentary “Scratch” (Palm Pictures), and is respected as one of today’s most talented and versatile DJ/turntablist.

DJ Quest

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DJ Quest-
Turntablist Mastermind, co-creator of The First Battle Record ‘Hamster Breaks’ and one of the founding members of Bullet Proof Scratch Hamsters/Space Travelerz), a pioneer group in the art of scratch music, Originator of the widely adopted Hamster Style Technique, and Architect of Jazz/Hip Hop Trio LiveHuman, renown for its improvisational use of the turntable as an instrument.