DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Since early 2002, the raggamuffin voice of DJ Collage has been a rising sound within the electronic music community worldwide. His vocal performances have been featured on top electronica releases by the Sofa Surfers, Stereotyp, Megablast, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ghislain Poirier & others. And as a producer, he has remixed songs for Seattle based groups- IQU, Truckasaurus & Viennaâ€™s club/pop group- Blockwerk.With these collaborations, Collage has been able to fuse his dancehall vocal flavor with abstract dub, breakbeat, house & downtempo riddims and still nice up straight dancehall parties. He has also performed live extensively throughout the US, Canada & Europe.DJ Collage began his musical journey by chatting on reggae soundsystems and with live reggae bands throughout the Midwestern US and Canada in the early nineties. He then relocated to California and began work with selectors and bands around the Bay area. He also formed the "Masse-One Soundsystem" which featured him as the vocalist and 2 selectors (Bad Lt. & Bamboo) running the riddims. When the soundsystem dissolved, Collage took the Masse-One name and turned it into a record label and received favorable reviews for his first cassette only single "Worla' Destruction" released in 1996. But it wasn't until his 5 song ragga/hip-hop EP "Uptown/Downtown" was released in 2000, did he really attract the attention of the masses.Currently Collage is living in the Pacific Northwest and does many performances in the area. He runs a weekly reggae/dancehall nite in Seattle called Jam Jam w/ Zion's Gate Soundsystem and has also teamed up with experimental beat maker- Dutty Larry and is working on a new CD- â€œMarathon Manâ€ which is a fusion of distorted, futuristic hip-hop and dub flavored dance riddims complete with his unique toasting stylee riding on top of it all. Nuff said, time to check out the man called DJ Collageâ€¦..for bookings, please contact The SureFire Agency at: http://www.surefireagency.com/

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Member Since: 4/5/2005
Band Website: djcollage.wordpress.com
Band Members: DJ Collage
Influences: Super Cat, Nicodemus, King Yellowman, Shinehead, Mad Cobra, Shabba Ranks, Cutty Ranks, Shaggy, Sean Paul, Jamalski, The System, Bernard Wright, Jazzie B. & SoulIISoul, Carl McIntosh & Loose Ends, Massive Attack, Lenny Kravitz, Led Zeppelin, Shalamar, Mr. Fingers, Ready For The World, Kid Creole, Andre Cymone, Jamie Principle, early Chicago house Muzik (nothing made after 90'), Robert Palmer, Rakim, Guru
Sounds Like: Dehli2Dublin feat DJ Collage- "Celtic Dub" Live @ Non Stop Bhangra, March 15th 2008Dehli2Dublin feat DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman Live @ Non Stop Bhangra, March 15th 2008Dave Sharma w/ DJ Collage on mic, Tarun on tablas @ Non Stop Bhangra, July 2007
Record Label: Masse-One
Type of Label: None

My Blog

DJ Collage joins the Surefire Agency!

After hosting 2 successful shows with the Surefire crew in SF, (Benga & Hatcha, Caspa & Rusko) the Surefire Agency has added me to their roster of artists! Based in SF, they are representing both side...
Posted by DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman on Sat, 10 May 2008 12:15:00 PST

Dehli2Dublin feat DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman!!!

Since last October, I have been a featured guest of the Celtic/Bhangra fusion band outta B.C.- Dehli2Dublin. I am featured on their latest CD with the track "Celtic Dub" and we have performed together...
Posted by DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:39:00 PST

Bombay Rokk is the World Fusion track of the day on Garageband!

While I was down in SF this past weekend, a friend of mine joked about how many music/social networking sites I’m listed on. (5, I think) One of those music sites is Garageband, which was the fi...
Posted by DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:09:00 PST

Vintage Collage: the Boogie & Bop EP

During my guest performing on the Sofa Surfers "Encounters" tour throughout Europe in 2002, I carried this ep as merch on the tour. Didn't really sell that many and even had to leave a bunch of them a...
Posted by DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:27:00 PST

Seattle, whats up???

Man, I got to be honest. My life as a entertainer in Seattle SUCKS. Very little support, very little turnout, what gives? I put as much energy as I can into my performances and I try to make my riddim...
Posted by DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:22:00 PST

Yellowman in Seattle!!!

Last nite I had the pleasure to open a show for the original "King" of the dancehall, Yellowman in Seattle. With selections run by DJ Element, I performed some classic old skool styled toasting over c...
Posted by DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:28:00 PST

Another movie review....

This one is "A guide to Recognizing Your Saints". Altho some of the past/present scenes were a lil' on the choppy, sometimes unexplained side, this is a very moving picture about a guy (Dito Montiel) ...
Posted by DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:36:00 PST

The best year of my life?

Recently I had a brief aquaintance with a young lady who said that 2007 was the best year of her life thus far. And that made me question- is it too the best year of my life? Well- after some thoughts...
Posted by DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:47:00 PST