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Qbert started his musical career in a group called FM20 with Mix Master Mike and DJ Apollo in 1990. In New York when playing a show, Crazy Legs saw them and invited them to join the Rock Steady Crew. They accepted the offer to join the crew. Going by the name Rock Steady DJs they then proceeded to take the 1992 Disco Mix Club World DJ Championships (DMC) world title. Qbert 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. 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. More recently he has worked with Vestax to develop the QFO, an all-in-one scratching instrument. The QFO combines a turntable with a mixer's crossfader.[1] In 2006 he introduced the QBert turntable cartridge, a model put out by Ortofon. Performing at a gig in Berlin, February 2008In 2009 Qbert launched the Qbert Skratch University, an online school and community for DJ's.

Q- bert is an unofficial member of the Direct Descendants, a Honolulu HI based Hip Hop consortium of producers, lyricist , breakers and graffiti artist. All 4 Hip Hop elements represnted. Members are DJ Risup, Iyon Mike, Round One, Kelvin 0, Creed Chemeleon, Educated Guess, Puppy Pants Lou, Silent Sir, BOAR, Seph 1, Phenominal, BIG Steve, Jason the 45 Revolver. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Qbert started his musical career in a group called FM20 with Mix Master Mike and DJ Apollo in 1990. In New York when playing a show, Crazy Legs saw them and invited them to join the Rock Steady Crew. They accepted the offer to join the crew. Going by the name Rock Steady DJs they then proceeded to take the 1992 Disco Mix Club World DJ Championships (DMC) world title. Qbert 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. 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. More recently he has worked with Vestax to develop the QFO, an all-in-one scratching instrument. The QFO combines a turntable with a mixer's crossfader.[1] In 2006 he introduced the QBert turntable cartridge, a model put out by Ortofon. Performing at a gig in Berlin, February 2008In 2009 Qbert launched the Qbert Skratch University, an online school and community for DJ's.

Q- bert is an unofficial member of the Direct Descendants, a Honolulu HI based Hip Hop consortium of producers, lyricist , breakers and graffiti artist. All 4 Hip Hop elements represnted. Members are DJ Risup, Iyon Mike, Round One, Kelvin 0, Creed Chemeleon, Educated Guess, Puppy Pants Lou, Silent Sir, BOAR, Seph 1, Phenominal, BIG Steve, Jason the 45 Revolver. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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