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John Doe / 1200 Hobos

About Me

John Doe met Mr. Dibbs and DJ Skip of Cincinnati’s 1200 Hobos DJ crew sometime in 1995. He began DJing with them on 88.3 WAIF-FM Cincinnati and entered the battle circuit in 1999: DMC, Guitar Center, and various local DJ battles. After the 1999 Cincinnati DMC regional heat, he started working on mixtapes which he felt were stylistically indicative of his battle routines: smooth transitions, composed scratching and turntable wordplay.His mixtapes are a testament to classic hip hop and the skills associated with being a DJ. Using turntables, a mixer and a multitracker, crates upon crates of classic hip hop records, head-nodding beats, dusty samples, fractured verses, well-composed scratches, movie sound bytes and a disturbingly linear sense of thought, John Doe takes the listener on a road seldom traveled by the multitude. Songs are blended in and out within a minute. Familiar verses are chopped up battle style. Hooks are re-created from scratch (literally), and some are simply just created. All the while the beats seamlessly gel together as the backbone of an intricately arranged cohesive sonic collage.As the majority of today’s mixtape DJs try to outdo each other with exclusive material instead of skills, John Doe takes the essence of the mixtape to an unbelievably insane extreme.For bookings or additional info please e-mail John at johndoe1200hobos (at) yahoo.com.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/09/2005
Influences: Mr. Mixx (2 Live Crew), DJ Man, Mike Fresh & DJ Toomp, Mix Master Ice (UTFO), Cash Money, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, QBert, Mr. Dibbs, DJ Noize, Cut Chemist, Kid Koala
Sounds Like: A cross between a blend tape and a battle routine...on speed
Record Label: none
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Short interview...

Check it out...Short interview with BZRWON from The Mix-Set Blog (copy and paste the link...):http://themix-setblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/exclusiv e-interview-with-john-doe-1200.htmlJohn
Posted by on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:15:00 GMT

Update...

Check out some-assembly-required.net, it's a weekly podcast focused on "Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations."The B-side of my "Bulletproof" 7-inch, "A Knight's Tale" wa...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:33:00 GMT

Throwback...

I posted an 8 minute clip of my first mixtape, which was titled Kjeldahl Determinations:  1200 Hamburgers (ugh, what the hell was I thinking?).  Thanks to Dibbs for assistance on it.  Keep in mind, th...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:42:00 GMT

Flipping Scripts, check it out

A new article on me in Cincinnati’s CityBeat weekly, courtesy of Millie Mil Fallen:http://citybeat.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A144403
Posted by on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:33:00 GMT

The Last Amateur reviews...

If you're wondering about my new CD, The Last Amateur, check the track snippets on the main page or read these reviews:Rapreviews.com (full review):http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2008_02_thelastama ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:50:00 GMT

Popular Fallacies reviews...

In case you're unfamiliar with my work, here are some reviews from my Popular Fallacies (True Lies) mixtape: from ADDReviews.com: http://www.addreviews.com/readreview.php?rev=2174 from Cincinnati's Ci...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:33:00 GMT