Dj Mikey

Sup! I am DJ Mikey (Michael Li). I started DJing in 2003 when I attended a weekend course at a DJ school in West London. The next day, I bought myself a pair of budget Numark decks and started practising. A little while later, I played in clubs all over London. However I became infatuated with the whole turntablism idea. So a year later I got some proper Technics equipment. Until now, I've been battling for a year and I won the Hong Kong DMCs in 2006 and 2008.

To me, turntablism is about incorporating all genres of music, accepting rather than rejecting new ideas. Everything is a learning process. Every DJ, let alone a mix or scratch DJ, has something to bring to the game, and respecting that is the key to improving as a DJ. I don't dress Hip Hop or anything, and my head's too big to wear baseball caps, but the way I undertand it is that Hip Hop is all about constant improvement, healthy competition in a sense. That is the way that the Hip Hop circle has broadened and it will always be there as a culture.

My Style is energetic and rhythm oriented... well... at least that's what I try to become. My aim in this DJ battle thing is to make my music heard... my emotions as a scratcher and my logic as a juggler. To conclude, big up to my family who support me, all the DJs out there who have given me inspiration, my friends who help me with my work, the player haters who drive me to do better, my turtle, and all those who breathe hip hop.

~Mikey

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2008 DMC Routine

This is my 2008 routine. My throughts are as follows:

1st part- It's sort of an aggressive Euro style routine. Samples of course came from European Battle Breaks.

2nd part- Supposedly a more funky and jazzy routine. Sampled from Final Fantasy 7.

3rd part- Drum and Bass with some Chinese instruments... then 3 click drumming at the end. Sampled from  Aphrodite and Ratat.

For this routine, I tried to bring out style.

Next time my routine will be a lot more technical, but still funky.

init!