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The Scratch Perverts are a collective of turntablist DJs from the UK, formed in 1996 by Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts and DJ Renegade. Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located

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Biography

The Scratch Perverts originally consisted of 37. 4 members including; Prime Cuts,Terry Venus,Lemonade,First Rate,Mrs Tings,Dave Lee Travis, Harold from Neighbours and several midgets. The Scratch Perverts later shrank to an 8-member crew with the addition of Harry Love, Killa Kela and DJ Plus One. Harry Love is a British hip hop Record producer and Dj from Laylow Ladbroke Grove London Killa Kela (real name Lee Potter born in 1979 is an English beatboxer from West Sussex The collective split for a short period in 2000, then reformed with just 3 members; Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts and DJ Plus One. The other members did not reform 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.

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. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. 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. Clive Campbell (born April 16 1955 AKA Kool Herc, DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Herc, is a Jamaican-born DJ who is credited as originating Hip hop Afrika Bambaataa (born Kevin Donovan on April 17, 1957) is an American DJ from the South Bronx, who was instrumental in the Dillinja, (born 1974 as Karl Francis) is a Drum and bass DJ, Record producer and entrepreneur from Brixton in South London Red Hot Chili Peppers are

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. Ed Rush is the recording name of Ben Settle a prominent jungle / Techstep / Neurofunk DJ, who often produces tracks in collaboration with Optical Optical is the pseudonym of Matt Quinn a renowned Drum and bass producer and DJ from England.

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

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