Excess

A pioneer in the world of scratch music and one fourth of the world-renowned dj crew Ned Hoddings and up and coming crew The Crate Bullies, which also includes Klever, Shotgun and J-Smoke, DJ Excess refuses to adhere to musical boundaries, and is constantly searching for new and innovative ways to blur the lines between genres. Excess has traveled all across the globe with shows in North America, Japan and Europe. His efforts in melding standard music production with his turntable skills have solidified his place as one of the great scratch musicians of his generation. Never content to simply be a run-of-the-mill Excess always works to take his skills to the next level. Looking for a way to realize his full potential as a DJ, he began his competition career in 1998 entering the International Turntablist Federation (I.T.F.) Western Hemisphere Scratching Championships. Though it was his first competition, he made a mark showing that he would soon be a force within the competition circuit. Once again in 1999 he would compete in the I.T.F. East Coast Advancement Class Championships which he would win, yet it wasnt till 2000 that his break through would occur winning both the U.S. Advancement Class and Western Hemisphere Scratching Championships.In addition to his competition titles, Excess is a main force along with fellow New York native IXL, behind "Hop-Fu, a project melding Hip-Hop and Kung-Fu into an exciting audio-visual experience. Created by John Carluccio (Battle Sounds, Turntablist Transcription Method) and Barry Cole (Spot Music), Hop-Fu has been kicking and scratching around the globe since 1998. Other scoring projects have included No Condition Is Permanent, and Apostrophe for the graffiti collective The Barnstormers (SKWERM, KR, RO STAR, ESPO and others) in a melding of graffiti art and turntable compositions.Excess impressive list of studio production credits include releasing mix CDs and vinyl Bringles (break record / singles) through his own Styluswars record label, scratches done for Pepsi International, Sesame Street, Schieffelin & Sommerset (Hennessy Cognac) as well as music featured in the 2004 Showtime series Street Time and Styluswars Radio Station on the 2005 Playboy video game release The Mansion.Excess artistry behind the turntables has earned him numerous accolades in his nine-year career. These include being featured in the URB Magazine's "Next 100" issue, which featured the top 100 up and coming electronic musicians and entertainers of the year, as well as being featured in hundreds of publications including Newsweek, Scratch, The Source, XXL, and Fader to name a few.Excess strives to push the envelope in his music by saying: Anything goes. Im not one to label or categorize what my music is going to sound like. What you should expect though is mood. To me, everything I try to produce must create a type of mood or ambience that can speak or relay a message or feeling to someone...