A Tremendous Discovery for Buffalonians (and Hip Hop Lovers)

Alert listener (and fellow blogger) S. Compton of Potsdam has unearthed a gem of a discovery. You've read and heard me gush about DJ Shadow and his 1990s record Entroducing - it boldly stated that a DJ can be a composer and orchestra and band all in one, taking the DJ out from behind the MC and the decks on steel and onto center stage. DJ Spooky, Cut Chemist, DJ Qbert, and so many others have elevated the art form of "turntablism", mashing up beats, spoken word, found sounds, and a million teeny clips of a million rare gems unearthed from used record stores. Return of the DJ, Vol.1 is widely considered the seminal collection of the genre.

Lo and behold we have just such a DJ in the Queen City, the (sometimes not-so) proud urb on the Lake, Buffalo, NY. Big props to Jeff Miers of the Buffalo News for telling us the story of Scott Down, DJ Cutler, and Blue Collar Funk. They even mix in immediately recognizable Buffalo-relevant clips into their tracks. I'm in heaven.