DJ Q-bert Totally Explained

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QBert (born 7 October 1969) is the performing name of Richard Quitevis, a Filipino-American (of Ilocano descent) DJ and composer.

Early life

Growing up in San Francisco's Excelsior District on Moscow Street, he graduated from Luther Burbank Middle School and in 1987 from Balboa High School. . Q-Bert started playing with records at the age of 15, although he got his first Fisher-Price turntable as a toddler. He was influenced by the street performers and graffiti artists of the local hip-hop community in the mid 1980s. It was at Balboa's school cafeteria that he went up against Mix Master Mike in his first DJ battle and won.

Career

He started his musical career in a group called FM20 with Mix Master Mike and DJ Apollo in 1990. They were playing a show in New York when Crazy Legs saw them and invited them to join the Rock Steady Crew. They accepted, and going by the name of the Rock Steady DJ's they proceeded to take the 1992 Disco Mix Club World DJ Championships (DMC) world title. Q-Bert was also one of the founding members of the band Invisibl Skratch Piklz. Although there were other turntablist crews before the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, the Skratch Piklz were the first to apply the band concept to turntablism, layering drums, basslines, and scratch solos on top of each other. Although he can be seen in the 1991 DMC US competition performing beat juggles, creating melodies with test tones, and performing other tricks, since then he's almost exclusively focused on scratching and "drumming," a variation on scratching in which the DJ scratches a drumbeat rhythmically. Of his performance routines, one of his most famous is a scratched reworking of LL Cool J's "Rock the Bells." QBert scratches "hamster style," which means that his mixer's crossfader works in reverse order. (Many other scratch DJs prefer "hamster style" to regular style.)
   QBert, along with other Skratch Piklz, created a series of videos entitled Turntable TV. Now out of print, the first 5 episodes were released on VHS and contained demonstrations, showcases, skits, and other dj related content.
   QBert's solo efforts include 1994's Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Musik, and 1998's Wave Twisters. The latter album was created mainly with samplers and beat machines versus the turntable, and later turned into an animated feature of the same title. Wave Twisters (2001) the movie was somewhat unusual in that the animators and digital artists had to invent images and movements to the pre-recorded music, as opposed to the other way around.
   DJ Qbert is represented by Premiere Artists Group and tours extensively worldwide.
   More recently he's worked with Vestax to develop the QFO, an all-in-one scratching instrument. The QFO combines a turntable with a mixer's crossfader.(External Link

) In 2006 he introduced the QBert turntable cartridge, a model put out by Ortofon.(External Link

) Thus far, the cartridge has received mixed reviews for its sound quality and skip resistance.

Media appearances

His music was also featured in the video games Tony Hawk's Underground (in which he was also an unlockable playable character) and FreQuency.
He is featured in the 2001 documentary film Scratch.
QBert recorded a commercial for Apple's "Switch" campaign, although it wasn't released on television.Mac Rumors

He is featured in the first documentary film on battle DJing - Battle Sounds - 1997.

Awards and credentials

DMC USA Champion 1991 (Solo)
DMC World Champion 1992 - Rocksteady DJ's (Qbert, Mixmaster Mike & Apollo)
DMC World Champion 1993 - Dreamteam (Qbert & Mixmaster Mike)
DMC World Champion 1994 - Dreamteam (Qbert & Mixmaster Mike)***
DMC Judge 2012
DMC DJ Hall of Fame (along with Mix Master Mike)
Acted in Hang the DJ
- Cannes Film Festival, France
Appears in the documentary film Modulations
- Sundance Festival, Utah
Appears in the documentary Scratch

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