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Scott Down and DJ Cutler

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Scott Down & DJ Cutler - Ultimate Breaks & Beats (A Tribute To Breakbeat Lenny)/ Ultimate Breaks & Treats
Scott Down & DJ Cutler - Blue Collar Funk II: The 716 Lesson ---------
Scott Down & DJ Cutler - 716 Lesson/ Lesson 716 ---------------------------
Scott Down & DJ Cutler b/w Pseudo Intellectuals - Blue Collar Funk b/w No Money, More Problems ----------------------------
Pseudo Intellectuals - Resourceful Illery -----------------------------------
Scott Down & DJ Cutler - Blue Collar Funk ----------------------
DJ Cutler - Scion CD Sampler v. 16 (MIX CD) -----------------------proclamations of praise from presumably reasonable people:"Cutler and Prime have put together a wicked mix... highlighting their impeccable scratching techniques and song selection skills. Representing Buffalo, New York, this is the kind of hip-hop that gives you hope that the genre's legacy is being kept alive. Bottom line, DJ Culter and Optimus Prime are two of the brightest DJs out there...", --soulmattersmag.com"DJ Cutler and Optimus Prime are record-crate scrapers, soundbox dumpster-divers who snip and clip and scratch from multiple disparate sources to put together a minimalist, funky, jittery set of joints that always seem to be moving in a different direction from where you might expect. Those of us who thought of Buffalo as a place you had to drive through to get to Niagara Falls will reconsider after hearing these joints. Highly recommended." --music-reviewer.com"Especially considering the number of artists featured, Volume 16 of the Scion Sampler series is freakishly cohesive. Credit is certainly due to Cutler and Prime, who handpick an outstanding selection of beats by some of the underground's finest and most underrated talents." --rapreviews.com"DJ Cutler and Optimus Prime from Buffalo, NY have a style similar to the radio mix shows I grew up listening to... They cut and scratch together a selection of deep and funky underground tracks... Great music for cruising." --gridface.com"Cutler and Prime definitely did their thing with the turntablism..." --thickonline.com"Blue Collar Funk is a massive blend of rare soul, funk, hip hop and even some psychedelia produced in the blue collar burgh over the past few decades. The mixed cuts are filled with deftly blended grooves -- often within the same track -- spun from decades of wax that was either privately pressed or quickly released on tiny regional Buffalo labels. A labor of love from Scott Down & DJ Cutler -- mix mastery of the first order!" --dusty groove america"Guys like Down and Cutler get feverish for funk on strange, obscure labels and limited, self-released 'private press' soul recordings. Blue Collar Funk speaks not only to this duo’s years of dedication to the art of unearthing rare records but also represents a loving homage to lost, forgotten and unheralded moments in the Queen City’s music past." --artvoice

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/11/2007
Band Website: in progress
Band Members: DJ Scott Down, DJ Cutler
Influences: Bob McAdoo, Jimmy Gomes (R.I.P.), DoDo Greene (R.I.P.), Kold City Crew, DJ J.R., DJ Shay, The Brotherhood Nation, Bobby Deemo, James Johnson Jr. (R.I.P.) and the Stone City Band, James Peterson, Jerry Livingston, Kent "Boom Boom" Leech, The Gayles Family, Genny Cream Ale, Simon Pure, Iroquois Beer, Lang's, Dyke and the Blazers, The Governor's Inn, The Royal Arms, The Bon Ton, The Pine Grill, The Revilot, Colored Musician's Club, all of our records, all of your mother's records, all of your auntie's cousin's pop's records, dust mites, thrift bins, snow.
Sounds Like: you can feel the soot of Bethlehem Steel permeate the cold east side air as you wait in line at the Rockpile to see O.J. in all his Sunday splendor...
Record Label: Lo Do
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ultimate Breaks and Beats free download!!!

at undergroundhiphop.comatthe-breaks.comatwestoletheshow.com
Posted by on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:49:00 GMT

Buffalo News Ultimate Breaks and Beatles review!

props again to Jeff Miers for another flattering review:Buffalo News ReviewBuffalo duo sets the standard with Sgt. Pepper mash-upBY JEFF MIERSNews Pop Music CriticUpdated: August 28, 2009, 7:53 AM /...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:05:00 GMT

Blue Collar Funk II review in Artvoice

high daps to Donny Kutzbach for another great write-up in this week's Artvoice!!!ch-ch-check it out:Left of the Dial
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:34:00 GMT

716 Lesson featured on www.waxpoetics.com

big shout out to the world's leading bimonthly periodical for the vinyl fiend (waxpoetics, of course) for the wonderful nod on the front page of their excellent website:Part history lesson, part scrat...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:50:00 GMT

Blue Collar Funk II Buffalo News Feature

big shout out to Jeff Miers for the dope write-up!Buffalo News Review
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:20:00 GMT

Blue Collar Funk II now available

at fatbeats and finer record stores worldwide: fatbeats.com
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:28:00 GMT

MIX CD NOW AT RECORD THEATRE

the new mix and 7" are now available at area Record Theatres. long live independent music stores and amherst records! for locations check their website out: www.recordtheatre.com
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:11:00 GMT

this week’s artvoice write-up!

many thanks to Donny Kutzbach!!! check it out online on the artvoice website... ..> Scott Down & DJ Cutler: Blue Collar Funk: Crate Diggin' in Buffalo 1969-1989 by Donny Kutzbach..>Call it lo...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:05:00 GMT

BLUE COLLAR FUNK MIX AND 7

Now available at www.dustygroove.com. Dusty Groove America is a mega crazy dope vinyl store in chicago so if you don't know by all means check 'em out!!! they've got one of the bes...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:25:00 GMT

big up stretch armstrong!!!

for shouting out an early Scott Down Sunday night radio appearance on 91.3 WBNY back in '88... Holy snap we can't believe he has this on tape. Scott was just in the studio for a freesty...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:39:00 GMT