I haven't listened to a winning DMC set in several years so I was expecting to see a huge leap in skills and set selection. Instead I was cringing and bored throughout his set to the point where I fast-forwarded. But still half expected some sick highlights which never came. Kentaro's 2002 set (even his 2001 set) would blow this guy out of the gd water. I challenge anyone to watch it on YT and prove me wrong.
I am too much of a Techno addict. Without watching the DJ, it just sounds like dyslexic electronica. Its performance art, you have to watch the performer or this wears thin, especially over long periods of time. I totally appreciate how this has changed over the years and it is getting better. Can you imagine how much this is going to sound and change in the next century? Wow
Chris Climb down? Really? Don’t get your hopes up. If you can say something, I can say something back. You are not speaking with your inner voice. By the way. The bride asks if you can play some Celine Dion.
@@VinylVinnie I was commenting on the performance, you came at me making personal digs and stretching for an insult about a playlist you're clueless about because it's all you've got, white knighting for Skillz. He's not gonna fūck you man but don't let that stop you sucking him off. :)
Chris If you spin as good as ur disses I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems. But being corny isn’t one. And ontopic: Take a look at the 1989 finals. This one is better.
OK, so it's not just me lol. I thought I was trippen, like how did sets not get better from the late 90's DMC's. For this to be the winning performance is amazing, I don't know what happened cause I have been out of the scene for several years but this can't be the hardest out.
Where has the excitement gone from the DMC Championships? Cannot deny the technical ability, but where has the creativity, the unexpected tune drops, the soundscape story gone? It's like 'Scratch by Numbers', like the painting sheets of a child's book. We need someone in 2020 to come along, fuck off all the rules and create a set that stuns minds and blows us away with it's genius!!
Craze's face when he did the body trick he used in one of his title wins, classic. I feel so blessed to have been into this back then until now, so good to see how far they have come. I do miss backspinning and the way some Dj's changed records namely M.M.Mike 🔥
Been doing this since 13 years old, now 55, it took me awhile to except most of the new technology involved with djing , I very still love straight vinyl / 12 inch Singles / LP’s thought, I still play only vinyl to do or perform tricks, but if your a professional Dj now a days, I say have fun, but I’ll still tear the pants off that new Technology , I got to do raw or not at all, but I do respect this young DJ’s .......keep the music flowing.
I don’t want to criticise this but yeah. I know this routine requires skills and he’s probably executed it perfectly. But it just didn’t sound very interesting.
@@BobbyBriscoeBeats Remember when people talked shit about djs that it's no actual music because they use complete records and manipulate them with these weird sounds. The fact people now talk shit here and compare them to the old stuff means it is an established art form hah.
The year is 2001, DJ Kentaro begins his final show at the DMC World Championships, he didn't scratch, he never used the cross fader and he didn't even touch the record. Now although he didn't win that year, his almost 2 decade old final show blows all over this one. It honestly just sounds a mess. Amazing skills don't get me wrong, absolutly amazing, but to me this winning set just sounded like a train wreck of random stuff thrown together
I literally have not seen one DMC set that comes anywhere close to Kentaro's 2002 DMC set, DJ Woody's 2002 Vestax set, and C2C's 2004 winning group set. YT them and watch. They happened 16 to nearly 20 years ago now. Wtf happened?
What about DJ Brace from 2016, in my opinion that was a clean set without much "weirdness". In my opinion one of the best clean shows of DJing with enough antics and all-around well-sounding track.
thanks for saying this cause I was honestly confused and reconsidering my interest in scratching lol, Im like this is what the professionals are doing?
Im back after watching Kentaro :') oh my goodness, that video was absolutely amazing and has opened my eyes to actual sounds created by scratching, BEAUTIFUL
So true. And before someone calls Me a boomer I’m GenX. Lol. But 90s hip hop beats made you want to bop your head. Those beats were funky as fuck. And the best lyricists of the time were spitting pure poetry. Nowadays hip hop beats sounds like disjointed and atonal (not sure if that’s the right word but they are lacking something at least to me). And when you can actually understand the raps it’s -mostly- just Gucci this, wet ass pussy that, blah blah blah. And yes I know there are talented rappers around nowadays but when I hear the beats it usually never clicks for me. This is all just my personal opinion obviously but 90’s era rap is still the best ever made.
@@andrea.dossantos2869 Man I couldn't agree with you more. Not to mention that all this crap today, be sounds the same. No diversity or originality. These cats out here greatly lack imagination.
These DJ's nowadays need to learn the winning formula...performance,classic music choices,rhythm and most importantly...THE FUNK!!! The jocks nowadays can transform, crab scratch and beat juggle with the best of them but they need to learn how to be FUNKY!!!
Agree mike ramirez..... Peeps gone get lazy, relying on tech too much........ it's like stability and braking control on cars, makes an average driver think he's good. Same with this shit......... 2 decks, a mixer and a crate of your best vinyl..... sort the men from the boys.
@@mthth2320 it is not too complex for me, I get what he is doing and there is a lot of skill here which is good but, imagine if he were to do this in front of an audience of a bunch of non-DJs. They would be completey confused and annoyed by how sporatic it is.
@@CameroniMusic thats why dmc is!! Since the beggining it was for show skills and tricks. For listen music we have club. And you know and i know (my cut is correct;) that skillz can be a club dj but is not the place to
Mixed feelings on this one, the juggles weren't great, but also not as bad as the comments suggested. I was really let down with the cutting ability however. The phrasing was soulless speed and there just wasn't a feeling of "no one can fuck with this" . It's hard not to compare to past because that's what it's all being judged on, and the progression from x-men, isp, craze / i.emerge, ect. slowed, but now it seems all but dead and stagnant, no dj has emerged to be like "the future is now, here is where dj'ing can get to..." Not even having to worry about taking records on / off should have led to innovation instead of this stagnation. This enables people to literally hand tailor their own wax, imagine if craze/bert, etc... had that ability, I have to feel they'd have used it to greater advantage. Again it's easy to be critical when you're expecting so much, but after battling in late 90's early 00's I'm not hearing anything new, I'm not seeing anything new, I'm seeing guys who are clearly talented, but just doing the same thing that's been done. I thought the 16, and 17 guys showed some glimmer of hope for returning it to high levels... but it never happened. and let's be real, craze would STILL fuck all these young cats up with routines he was doing 20 years ago in 99.... (still getting mine in the 1..9 ..9........9) damn we're getting old.
For example, listen to this guys cuts, then go back and listen to d-styles freak it here th-cam.com/video/veL9R73zm60/w-d-xo.html it's like hearing something you'd hear in a guitar center, vs an accomplished musician who's mastered his craft.
Really?? Obviously you have no ear for music because if you did you would easily recognize the beats, mixing and his ability to manipulate 2 records at the same time
Haven't watched DMC battle vids for a while ... Came here expecting to see how the game has evolved and improved since the early days. I'm leaving disappointed. Do they not ALLOW any hip-hop to actually be PLAYED during a set?!?!?
Darrick Lee Sadly the motto for modern djs is.....”If you aint button pushin, you are probably really djing...which is hard”. We miss you late 90s-early 2000s djs #iemerge #craze #kentaro #netik
So glad I am not crazy and a lot of people agree with me in these comments! Haven't touched decks in over 20 yrs and your comment hit the nail on the head! Look at DJ Brace 2016 winning set. Was expecting/hoping to see something better or at least comparable. Smh...
Indeed, I'm a Magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff kind of guy myself. This dude is sloppy and so not impressive. Spending entirely too much time on one turntable!!
It’s a scratch competition. This is what they have evolved into. It isn’t a dance mix. He isn’t a disc jockey trying to blend beats. For fucks sake people.
I try to come back here and there to check out the winning set and support, but lately It's been hard to watch and listen... no music to it anymore, I'm probably just getting old... oh well
Same reason I came to the comments. Yours made me realize I did the same. Wasn't enjoying or interested so I was curious to see what others had to say. Now I realize this was a show of how fast he could create terrible flow and rhythm. The only impressiveness is speed, but nothing musically.
I think I’ll go check out the performances of Qbert, Craze, Kentaro, etc. I thought the evolution of turntablism would evolve thru the years. Looks like it has de-evolved.
@@dmitrys5661I can't find this one,I'm wondering myself ! 😁... But I think it's gotta be somewhere in the "suspense music" section of TH-cam...a tough melody to find indeed.
"Look, ma! I can make music by banging a guitar!" "Well, look at you. That's not what guitars are supposed to do and the outcome isn't beautiful, but I have got to praise the sheer SKILL!"
Has everybody forgotten DJ Fly or am I the only one who thinks that dude is a turntablist genius? Maybe I’m wrong but I thought he was better than craze.
Yooooooo, from someone who still watches Craze's DMC victories from time to time, I don't get how this guy took it in 2019. No disrespect meant because clearly he has skill, just doesn't seem like enough to translate into DMC level skill. His set seems all over the place and no cohesion.
@@williamwalrus63 ghat 1998 set is legendary. I've watched it several times over the last couple of days. It's still better than anything I've seen since.
From a old school dj I will say these dudes are very skill ,but its just all over the place, no soul just a bunch of techno sounds , scratches with echos which enhancing the sound. I think they are better than we was but it's based on difficulty, not smooth patterns
Kentaro back in the days of 2002: hand making like 15 different beats in 15 different music styles with the same sample on both turntables. "Nowadays" in 2019 "Skillz": lives the arppegiator life filled with scratchings.. and wins the same championship I'm kinda shocked, and not in a good way... more like actually shocked
I rarely see DJ's able to scratch because most of them use other forms than Vinyl. It's become so entry level to do that everyone thinks Shaq is this great DJ and I am a major fan of his in general with regards to basketball or that one time in a shark cage during shark week, i even had his reebok teal and white Orlando Magic Pumps shoes, but at edc in vegas this year and last, most of the time his hands are off the table and holding a mic to hype the crowd and body moving. I swear most people have a prerecorded mix that they just fake work or talent. Tiesto still has vinyls because he knows how to be a true God of his craft. I asked DJ Morgan one time to play a fav song of his and the badass straight told me "I never carry the same records for more than 2 weeks in my crate and I was like thats awesome cuz he is always trending and new/original and always makes the dance floor blur with movement. This video is awesome because i believe it really shows a lost art to scratching and how there used to be these kinds of battles in small clubs in the 80's when hip hop ruled and started the art of scratching. Jam Master Jay was an OG GRAND MASTER WITH A GRADUATE DEGREE IN SCRATCHING from the University of Badassdom. Mix Master Mike is a Bay Area legend to us locals, where a lot of DJ Battles became famous and his cassettes made the rounds of our friends, but is def known world wide, I was so enamored by it that I absolutely, ignorantly, and regrettably made my records unplayable and got thrown away. my colored Disney vinyl story (Fox and Hound, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, and my favorite one to this day was Robin Hood with the fox as Robin and a bear as Little John. OMG I ruined them so bad but I felt like a DJ for a few min til my parents shut it down for being straight annoying. I think I also eventually ruined my Michael Jackson Thriller album which I regret to this day because it is still highly desired and I loved that album. Kudos for winning this event and it was fun to watch a lost art that is impressive and just plain fun when done correctly.
I’ll try and help you out here son. If your mom didn’t walk out of the room to answer the phone after your dad came in her maybe you’d have more brain cells but then again you dad also walk out of the room and also your life, but I digress. You seem to be an expert so what was it like your first time winning a world championship? Of course I’m aware Vekked never won because he literally only uses vinyl and never uses technology (believe me, I was there in the Edison days and it was just plain sad) but can’t wait to hear what you can do! Let me know when it’s posted!
Reason for all the negative comments is the lack of humility shown in the performance. Aside from that the set and skills were 🔥. Projection of character holds a lot of weight.
Well, at least it didn't disappoint - The DMCs died years ago so it came as no surprise that the winning set was the usual overblown, portentous intro followed by 4 minutes of hyperactive turntable noodling by some charmless coked-up prat.
It’s like seeing a dude on the court with mad hands doing all types of cool shit but in the overall grand scheme of the sport he aint really doing shit
It just doesn't have the same soul, for some reason. Not hating- the Djs are great at what they do. I can't put my finger on it - something is just missing as compared to a decade ago or more.
i cant understand if there are only two records and he keeps rolling them back how is it possible to get all these sounds out of them? or are they just there to make scratch noise and the computer is providing all the music?
PlatinumEagleStudio's 😂 you mad? You commented twice on a comment I made 7 months ago about a shitty DJ set. Let me guess, DJ Skillz is your second cousin and you have to defend his honor on TH-cam 😆
Im glad Im not the only one that thinks the new DMC stuff is garbage. It has become a competition of who can make the most sounds. Most of it sounds like a CD skipping. No beat, no structure, no syncing. Red Bulls DJ competitions are far above this crap.
I’m not a believer!!!! A champ should wow wtf omg me and I did catch that Dj craze Little trick tribute, right after we notice he looked, I thought shit was about to get better ! But no ! I want to see the other dj’s
No doubt Skillz got skills but his performance could’ve been a lot cleaner. We’ve all seen the same thing be done much cleaner without losing the beat (i.e. Rafik, Craze, I-emerge, DJ Fly, etc). Congratulations and props to him, nonetheless.
Wack selection,messy beat juggles and the cuts were just ok. What was the rest of the comp like if he was the winner?
They wouldn't stop pressing buttons
I haven't listened to a winning DMC set in several years so I was expecting to see a huge leap in skills and set selection. Instead I was cringing and bored throughout his set to the point where I fast-forwarded. But still half expected some sick highlights which never came. Kentaro's 2002 set (even his 2001 set) would blow this guy out of the gd water. I challenge anyone to watch it on YT and prove me wrong.
Sure it wasn't real
I am too much of a Techno addict. Without watching the DJ, it just sounds like dyslexic electronica. Its performance art, you have to watch the performer or this wears thin, especially over long periods of time. I totally appreciate how this has changed over the years and it is getting better. Can you imagine how much this is going to sound and change in the next century? Wow
If you haven't checked out the barcode music, seems like it could be something like that
watch the Scrath Picklez from the 90's
Yeah the cool part of a DJ battle for sure is watching the DJs battle.
You gotta watch at slowest speed to appreciate the skill even more
@@prooflifedoc942 yea it's not really listenable though is what they're getting at
Winner? Didn't anyone else show up?
There is wedding set playlist on your youtube page. You do know this isnt the wedding dj championship 2019?
@@VinylVinnie Climb down, sonny. Anyone can compare this to past winners and tell it's not as good.
Chris Climb down? Really? Don’t get your hopes up. If you can say something, I can say something back. You are not speaking with your inner voice. By the way. The bride asks if you can play some Celine Dion.
@@VinylVinnie I was commenting on the performance, you came at me making personal digs and stretching for an insult about a playlist you're clueless about because it's all you've got, white knighting for Skillz. He's not gonna fūck you man but don't let that stop you sucking him off. :)
Chris If you spin as good as ur disses I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems. But being corny isn’t one.
And ontopic: Take a look at the 1989 finals. This one is better.
Boy things have changed so much, his juggling don’t make sense! Back in the days this wouldn’t make it out of regionals smh
I agree with you bro, this was awful :(
It’s a sad state of affairs lads 😔
Ahah and you don't seen DMC france, one of the "champion" is a joke! Now he acts like he is a world champion ;)
@Frankus Lee craze sitting there as a judge lol
OK, so it's not just me lol. I thought I was trippen, like how did sets not get better from the late 90's DMC's. For this to be the winning performance is amazing, I don't know what happened cause I have been out of the scene for several years but this can't be the hardest out.
When turntablism stops being music and simply becomes a demonstration of dexterity, like this, I'm out.
Birdy Nam Nam.
Basically who can do it the quickest . I reckon I would be the champion at scratching my balls
Lee kowalski Walker 🙏🏽
You gotta keep the dj world alive tho. Regardless if it sucks,its just evolution
@@lewismulholland2704 Hahahahahaha
Where has the excitement gone from the DMC Championships? Cannot deny the technical ability, but where has the creativity, the unexpected tune drops, the soundscape story gone?
It's like 'Scratch by Numbers', like the painting sheets of a child's book.
We need someone in 2020 to come along, fuck off all the rules and create a set that stuns minds and blows us away with it's genius!!
Syntablism ;)
Agreed the only thing that really impresses me was when he played half time
Craze's face when he did the body trick he used in one of his title wins, classic. I feel so blessed to have been into this back then until now, so good to see how far they have come. I do miss backspinning and the way some Dj's changed records namely M.M.Mike 🔥
This guy's music is awful
The fact that he pointed to him right before he did made it so much doper.
Been doing this since 13 years old, now 55, it took me awhile to except most of the new technology involved with djing , I very still love straight vinyl / 12 inch Singles / LP’s thought, I still play only vinyl to do or perform tricks, but if your a professional Dj now a days, I say have fun, but I’ll still tear the pants off that new Technology , I got to do raw or not at all, but I do respect this young DJ’s .......keep the music flowing.
All this technology and possibilities, but where is the flow and musicality? This can't be the "best" we can do, can it??
Of all the complaints I hear you make the best argument about technology and possibilities. I totally agree.
Well said
@Ezmyrelda Andrade Yes, that's the idea: Tell a story on wax ... Exactly the hope!!
Yes it is, boomer. Yes it is.
I don’t want to criticise this but yeah. I know this routine requires skills and he’s probably executed it perfectly. But it just didn’t sound very interesting.
I remember when simply changing vinyl was a skill that needed to be mastered
@Jo Ol We did the same thing back then too though. Tape on record = cue point
@@BobbyBriscoeBeats Remember when people talked shit about djs that it's no actual music because they use complete records and manipulate them with these weird sounds. The fact people now talk shit here and compare them to the old stuff means it is an established art form hah.
You obviously never heard of scratching lol
Lol!! This sounds like me practicing drunk 5 years ago. Wtf happened while I’ve been adulting
Serato
@@ceedig303 And Novation Dicers
Enter in it
It's France😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I miss the dj from Linkin Park 🎉
The year is 2001, DJ Kentaro begins his final show at the DMC World Championships, he didn't scratch, he never used the cross fader and he didn't even touch the record. Now although he didn't win that year, his almost 2 decade old final show blows all over this one. It honestly just sounds a mess. Amazing skills don't get me wrong, absolutly amazing, but to me this winning set just sounded like a train wreck of random stuff thrown together
I literally have not seen one DMC set that comes anywhere close to Kentaro's 2002 DMC set, DJ Woody's 2002 Vestax set, and C2C's 2004 winning group set. YT them and watch. They happened 16 to nearly 20 years ago now. Wtf happened?
What about DJ Brace from 2016, in my opinion that was a clean set without much "weirdness". In my opinion one of the best clean shows of DJing with enough antics and all-around well-sounding track.
thanks for saying this cause I was honestly confused and reconsidering my interest in scratching lol, Im like this is what the professionals are doing?
Im back after watching Kentaro :') oh my goodness, that video was absolutely amazing and has opened my eyes to actual sounds created by scratching, BEAUTIFUL
THANKYOU!
So Turntablism reached its peaked in the 90s just like lyricism reached its peaked in the 90s.
Truth. I have always said music peaked in 95 96.
So true. And before someone calls
Me a boomer I’m GenX. Lol. But 90s hip hop beats made you want to bop your head. Those beats were funky as fuck. And the best lyricists of the time were spitting pure poetry.
Nowadays hip hop beats sounds like disjointed and atonal (not sure if that’s the right word but they are lacking something at least to me). And when you can actually understand the raps it’s -mostly- just Gucci this, wet ass pussy that, blah blah blah. And yes I know there are talented rappers around nowadays but when I hear the beats it usually never clicks for me.
This is all just my personal opinion obviously but 90’s era rap is still the best ever made.
@@andrea.dossantos2869 Man I couldn't agree with you more. Not to mention that all this crap today, be sounds the same. No diversity or originality. These cats out here greatly lack imagination.
Ka proves this statement to be false.
@@LeekowalskiWalker it's not a statement, it's a question.
These DJ's nowadays need to learn the winning formula...performance,classic music choices,rhythm and most importantly...THE FUNK!!! The jocks nowadays can transform, crab scratch and beat juggle with the best of them but they need to learn how to be FUNKY!!!
I think you hit my biggest issue rhythm, there isn't any here.
Vekked is really dope with all of that stuff.
@Prodigy son yeah, I resemble that remark. 💯
I miss when this was a hip hop DJ competition
Forreals
I miss when they used records
Amen. The new generation fucks EVERYTHING up!
I really wanted to say that. But nothing wrong with digital vinyl.
Senator Wax Davis You couldn’t have stated that any better. I miss when routines were good
dmc need to change there format just get a crate of records and see who makes the best set im not hatting just saying
You should try that battle format out yourself and see how it works out.
Agree mike ramirez..... Peeps gone get lazy, relying on tech too much........ it's like stability and braking control on cars, makes an average driver think he's good. Same with this shit......... 2 decks, a mixer and a crate of your best vinyl..... sort the men from the boys.
True. These cats are always impressive but... It's like turntablism is still stuck in 2002. It's cool for the first 5 minutes I guess.
At least it will be a real set not a pre-recorded piece of s***
Christie Z hater
I like the way at the beginning he holds the 'mixer' up.....basically saying "it's this doing the real work".
No right hand cuts and few beat doubles, DMC has officially lost its soul. I'm surprised he didn't make the love heart sign! Laters DMC.
how about some cake? hahahaha
As I'm French, I'd be pleased to be proud of him but... wtf was that? I didn't get it at all, messy beatjungling...
Same. Im tired of seeing jittery beat juggling like this, they see complexity and more movement over actually making it sound good.
Same thing I was thinking
Too complex for you
@@mthth2320 it is not too complex for me, I get what he is doing and there is a lot of skill here which is good but, imagine if he were to do this in front of an audience of a bunch of non-DJs. They would be completey confused and annoyed by how sporatic it is.
@@CameroniMusic thats why dmc is!! Since the beggining it was for show skills and tricks. For listen music we have club. And you know and i know (my cut is correct;) that skillz can be a club dj but is not the place to
Mixed feelings on this one, the juggles weren't great, but also not as bad as the comments suggested. I was really let down with the cutting ability however. The phrasing was soulless speed and there just wasn't a feeling of "no one can fuck with this" . It's hard not to compare to past because that's what it's all being judged on, and the progression from x-men, isp, craze / i.emerge, ect. slowed, but now it seems all but dead and stagnant, no dj has emerged to be like "the future is now, here is where dj'ing can get to..."
Not even having to worry about taking records on / off should have led to innovation instead of this stagnation. This enables people to literally hand tailor their own wax, imagine if craze/bert, etc... had that ability, I have to feel they'd have used it to greater advantage.
Again it's easy to be critical when you're expecting so much, but after battling in late 90's early 00's I'm not hearing anything new, I'm not seeing anything new, I'm seeing guys who are clearly talented, but just doing the same thing that's been done. I thought the 16, and 17 guys showed some glimmer of hope for returning it to high levels... but it never happened.
and let's be real, craze would STILL fuck all these young cats up with routines he was doing 20 years ago in 99.... (still getting mine in the 1..9 ..9........9) damn we're getting old.
For example, listen to this guys cuts, then go back and listen to d-styles freak it here th-cam.com/video/veL9R73zm60/w-d-xo.html
it's like hearing something you'd hear in a guitar center, vs an accomplished musician who's mastered his craft.
this. all of this.
chirp/orbit combos yay
That was unispired and soulless. Like a guitarist shredding a million notes a second but has no feel to it.
Really?? Obviously you have no ear for music because if you did you would easily recognize the beats, mixing and his ability to manipulate 2 records at the same time
@@christophergallagher9574 he is super technic but music sucks, where is the funky?
Craze was the "Man"
Gawd how times have changed
Exactly how I felt... mad technique no soul
This was a hard watch. I had to watch Craze 2000 performance straight after to remind me of what an entertaining set is.
I went back and watched that too... So much better.
Your age is showing
Christian Beaver how old do you think I am, seeing as I never mentioned it? Why is that even relevant?
What is the first track? @1:00
can anyone please share?
Man.. This is what wins world's? I'm going to sign up next year I suppose then.. I genuinely will trounce a set like this, at least I think so.
Did ya do it?
Also curious, did you do it?
Lmao
🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡
Haven't watched DMC battle vids for a while ... Came here expecting to see how the game has evolved and improved since the early days. I'm leaving disappointed.
Do they not ALLOW any hip-hop to actually be PLAYED during a set?!?!?
Darrick Lee Sadly the motto for modern djs is.....”If you aint button pushin, you are probably really djing...which is hard”. We miss you late 90s-early 2000s djs #iemerge #craze #kentaro #netik
So glad I am not crazy and a lot of people agree with me in these comments! Haven't touched decks in over 20 yrs and your comment hit the nail on the head! Look at DJ Brace 2016 winning set. Was expecting/hoping to see something better or at least comparable. Smh...
@@Sonnylintag u forgot dj noize
TraxByFrax #noize and #static was sick too!
Everytime I see a performance like this, I have to watch Dj brace 2016 performance to regain my belief in djing.
Yes I watch Brace’s 2016 set once a year. Pure, pure class.
The dude has skills but the most important part about being a DJ is the selection! Homie has no style -_- wack selection
Jorge Madrigal euro selections 🤔
literally would have finished last in 1998.
Stop you Killing me
Lol.....and tears
Sorry one tear .....in the corner of my eye
Indeed, I'm a Magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff kind of guy myself. This dude is sloppy and so not impressive. Spending entirely too much time on one turntable!!
I look back at the 98 us dmc finals..every competitor was awesome. Shortkut retires and craze goes to win the worlds
@ 2:50-3:13 THAT'S A SMOOTH TIMED METRONOME... A BEAT JUGGLE RYTHEM ON POINT. MAD WAX SKILLZ
wickedAnyone who says this is shit just remember this is all being done on vinyl with no prompting.absolute pure genius
What’s the name of that track?
@@Skyandrosstolley Chemise : she can't love you
So fucking clean! My favorite part for sure
What’s the song that comes in at 3:20?
all these acrobatics are just homeboy tripping over the groove and missing it every time
1:04 amazing reaction from Craze
Its à tribute to craze 20th anniversary
djshinpa dmc99’
exactly ;-)
Does anyone know the song name?
he looked around like aiight.. cool .. i guess ..
Wow.... They should reduce the technology aspect of that competiton back to when pure skillz and flow made you win....
When you are as high as I am watching this video, it feels like inter-dimensional travelling when watching someone this talented...........
Nowadays the level of the DJ is so low when you look at this guy it seems that all is not lost! Awesome 🔥
you remember when djs were on time?
Dj Netik winning routine was the last REAL one
This was dope .. idk what ur watching but this was definitely a winning routine
It’s a scratch competition. This is what they have evolved into. It isn’t a dance mix. He isn’t a disc jockey trying to blend beats. For fucks sake people.
@@ronin_user but his scratching is boring
This man is incredible! real talent
I try to come back here and there to check out the winning set and support, but lately It's been hard to watch and listen... no music to it anymore, I'm probably just getting old... oh well
Serato killed this art form
Is it me or I hear scratches more than the pure art form of advance dj’ing?,this jus sounds like it’s all over the place tbh
I just started reading the comments, seemed better then what I was listening too
Same reason I came to the comments. Yours made me realize I did the same. Wasn't enjoying or interested so I was curious to see what others had to say. Now I realize this was a show of how fast he could create terrible flow and rhythm. The only impressiveness is speed, but nothing musically.
Showmanship is just as important as skills. Scratch with ATTITUDE! Love this ish!
Does anyone remember C2C in 2005? Cuz that shit was the greatest of all time.
And Phel's solo 05 routine, 05 was stacked, iemerg, phel, izoh, staen1, unkut
Excellent work sir :)
Bring back vinyl !
Just came from watching Spell's 2015 2nd place performance. I think I'm gonna go back to that.
I think I’ll go check out the performances of Qbert, Craze, Kentaro, etc. I thought the evolution of turntablism would evolve thru the years. Looks like it has de-evolved.
2:34 song name, anyone? beat got me bouncin!
th-cam.com/video/rcISKo1wFk4/w-d-xo.html Here you go :)
@@Jay_Dee777 Do you know what was the first track?
@@dmitrys5661I can't find this one,I'm wondering myself ! 😁... But I think it's gotta be somewhere in the "suspense music" section of TH-cam...a tough melody to find indeed.
"Look, ma! I can make music by banging a guitar!"
"Well, look at you. That's not what guitars are supposed to do and the outcome isn't beautiful, but I have got to praise the sheer SKILL!"
I wish DMC would have a competition category that was records only. No push button mixers either. Opens your eyes for sure.
excellent suggestion
Technics SL1200 MK2's in silver have oozes more class than this. Old school rule
1210 is silver edition bro
@bob snufflebag ye i was pretty chuffed to see the released a new series of technics
Okay boomer. MK 7 is better you fucking tard. Piss off, looser.
Has everybody forgotten DJ Fly or am I the only one who thinks that dude is a turntablist genius? Maybe I’m wrong but I thought he was better than craze.
Yooooooo, from someone who still watches Craze's DMC victories from time to time, I don't get how this guy took it in 2019. No disrespect meant because clearly he has skill, just doesn't seem like enough to translate into DMC level skill. His set seems all over the place and no cohesion.
Crazes 1998 championship set. One of my favorites.
@@williamwalrus63 ghat 1998 set is legendary. I've watched it several times over the last couple of days. It's still better than anything I've seen since.
@@rayoneal8391 I agree his set was so fluid and clean AF
I watched this after watching DJ Vekked 2015, and i'm going back to watch him again....
Nothing beats DJ Swamp Ring of Fire. He lights his hand on fire and literally breaths fire as he jams.
2:36 Who is this song? This Beatjuggle...
From a old school dj I will say these dudes are very skill ,but its just all over the place, no soul just a bunch of techno sounds , scratches with echos which enhancing the sound. I think they are better than we was but it's based on difficulty, not smooth patterns
that is their souls tho
What song is that at 2:33 It sound funky and I like it
This is some of the best beat juggling I've ever heard.
I hope that is sarcasm because it's some of the shittest I've ever heard.
have tracklists?
Kentaro back in the days of 2002:
hand making like 15 different beats in 15 different music styles with the same sample on both turntables.
"Nowadays" in 2019 "Skillz":
lives the arppegiator life filled with scratchings.. and wins the same championship
I'm kinda shocked, and not in a good way... more like actually shocked
No feel and no soul.. just smashing deck to deck. sad days when this is the new level of expertise and mastership
This dude is holding onto the most influence from the best days. Dudes can't scratch anymore and there is too much focus on technicality.
I rarely see DJ's able to scratch because most of them use other forms than Vinyl. It's become so entry level to do that everyone thinks Shaq is this great DJ and I am a major fan of his in general with regards to basketball or that one time in a shark cage during shark week, i even had his reebok teal and white Orlando Magic Pumps shoes, but at edc in vegas this year and last, most of the time his hands are off the table and holding a mic to hype the crowd and body moving. I swear most people have a prerecorded mix that they just fake work or talent. Tiesto still has vinyls because he knows how to be a true God of his craft. I asked DJ Morgan one time to play a fav song of his and the badass straight told me "I never carry the same records for more than 2 weeks in my crate and I was like thats awesome cuz he is always trending and new/original and always makes the dance floor blur with movement. This video is awesome because i believe it really shows a lost art to scratching and how there used to be these kinds of battles in small clubs in the 80's when hip hop ruled and started the art of scratching. Jam Master Jay was an OG GRAND MASTER WITH A GRADUATE DEGREE IN SCRATCHING from the University of Badassdom. Mix Master Mike is a Bay Area legend to us locals, where a lot of DJ Battles became famous and his cassettes made the rounds of our friends, but is def known world wide, I was so enamored by it that I absolutely, ignorantly, and regrettably made my records unplayable and got thrown away. my colored Disney vinyl story (Fox and Hound, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, and my favorite one to this day was Robin Hood with the fox as Robin and a bear as Little John. OMG I ruined them so bad but I felt like a DJ for a few min til my parents shut it down for being straight annoying. I think I also eventually ruined my Michael Jackson Thriller album which I regret to this day because it is still highly desired and I loved that album. Kudos for winning this event and it was fun to watch a lost art that is impressive and just plain fun when done correctly.
I’ll try and help you out here son. If your mom didn’t walk out of the room to answer the phone after your dad came in her maybe you’d have more brain cells but then again you dad also walk out of the room and also your life, but I digress. You seem to be an expert so what was it like your first time winning a world championship? Of course I’m aware Vekked never won because he literally only uses vinyl and never uses technology (believe me, I was there in the Edison days and it was just plain sad) but can’t wait to hear what you can do! Let me know when it’s posted!
need to ear it after sleeping a lil bit , I'm not convinced right now
that's better when I listen it when fully wake up ^__^ but that's not awesome
Which tennis courts remix is he using?
This is more of a quick hands demonstration than a DJ set,
This was Dope!
He came on stage having failed to button up his shirt properly and it just went downhill from there
danthemanwhocancan yes!!!
Lol bro thats funny as!
😂
I guess he wants to be a Vato (Chicano) from L.A. because that's how the Mexicans in L.A. used to wear their shit back in the day.
U Fucking better?!...No
Shut up
What is the song at 2:35 i love that vibe
chemise - she can't love you
Reason for all the negative comments is the lack of humility shown in the performance. Aside from that the set and skills were 🔥. Projection of character holds a lot of weight.
Anyone got the tracklist? Most interested in the first and second track
3:15 Fail xD Amazing set!!!
What was the name of that song with the female singing he just destroyed?
@@sickdion Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix)
@@dnbWORLDWIDE 😯😯😯
If I was in a club and the DJ started doing that, he'd get boo'd right off the decks. lol
The first DJ to ever name himself Skillz 🙄
Do any one know song from this moment? Plissss 3:20, shazam doesn't recognise.
This guy is another level
Majority of it is dj rafik's of Lord's of fitness 2006(edit) dmc world championships routine if I remember corectly
Well, at least it didn't disappoint - The DMCs died years ago so it came as no surprise that the winning set was the usual overblown, portentous intro followed by 4 minutes of hyperactive turntable noodling by some charmless coked-up prat.
Portentous?
It’s like seeing a dude on the court with mad hands doing all types of cool shit but in the overall grand scheme of the sport he aint really doing shit
It just doesn't have the same soul, for some reason. Not hating- the Djs are great at what they do. I can't put my finger on it - something is just missing as compared to a decade ago or more.
Some people count without thinking at all, and have the motor skills as an extension. Mind blowing for those who see but can't do!
I was in the hacienda, when DJ cheese won in 86, and when chad jackson smoked the world..
and on this evidence chad would still smoke this guy...
0:27 scratch starts before the DJ touch vinil (???)
Could be a sync issue with the Multicam editing.
The very very last build sounds like something cool is actually going to happen... Nope it's over.
Watced 60seconds of this then searched back to '95 DMC to hear some real turntableism skills
Craze liquid move was the best part and His Majesties reaction too
i cant understand
if there are only two records and he keeps rolling them back how is it possible to get all these sounds out of them? or are they just there to make scratch noise and the computer is providing all the music?
What??? This is the winner?!?!
Bleah....
'what instrument is it you play again son? 😂 Aaaaaaall of them 👀 🫡
The control vinyl sound is just too clean.
sounds broken. did you try to remove the clown?
“DJ Skills” how much coke did you blow before this set and how much did you have to pay off the judges to let you win?
Shit the fuck up, boomer. No one gives a fuck about anything you say.
Go back to your crap life, boomer. No one wants you here
PlatinumEagleStudio's 😂 you mad? You commented twice on a comment I made 7 months ago about a shitty DJ set. Let me guess, DJ Skillz is your second cousin and you have to defend his honor on TH-cam 😆
They said I was wrong ... when I said that the new generations don’t get it....qualitywise, depth, history, style, respect, originality
This was boring, with even more boring song choices. Technically he deserves it but entainment value is a lacking. Top Dj though.
Pretty good skills, can't blame him for that. No imagination and no style though.
Technics is bringing back gold plated decks for the winner?
I could never imagine this rating as 'musically fun' in a club or even home party scenario. Audiowise its painful really!
Thanks for saying this... seriously in so many places i couldn't get the beats..
Im glad Im not the only one that thinks the new DMC stuff is garbage. It has become a competition of who can make the most sounds. Most of it sounds like a CD skipping. No beat, no structure, no syncing. Red Bulls DJ competitions are far above this crap.
I’m not a believer!!!! A champ should wow wtf omg me and I did catch that Dj craze Little trick tribute, right after we notice he looked, I thought shit was about to get better ! But no ! I want to see the other dj’s
That slo mo part was hard 😂
No doubt Skillz got skills but his performance could’ve been a lot cleaner. We’ve all seen the same thing be done much cleaner without losing the beat (i.e. Rafik, Craze, I-emerge, DJ Fly, etc). Congratulations and props to him, nonetheless.
Started off really strong, though.