Hello, I'm Scratch_Eddie, welcome to my page.
I am an electronic musician from Sheffield , though that doesn't mean that my organs are comprised of myriad circuits or that I have some kind of robot brain nestling inside an metallic head. I attempt to play all sorts of 'instruments', having started out playing drums, singing and playing guitar in bands when I lived in Devon (where I grew up, amongst sheep and trees and so forth). However, in recent years I have become closely associated with the art of DJing.
Personally I don't like to be referred to with the term DJ, as it suggests that I follow in the footsteps of people like Skream or Vex'd, who are more like organic jukeboxes than true jockeys of discs. Don't get me wrong, they're fine producers, but I don't think they bring much to the arena of live performance, and as such I feel they should stay in the studio making tunes that proper noise-jockeys can manipulate at events.
I attempt to be a bit more Box Office than producers who masquerade as DJs, by trying to integrate all manner of different sound creating devices into my sets. These devices include vinyl and turntables, along with effects units, live laptop sequencing and also live instrumentation (I often play my flute, guitar and synth in amongst my mixes, though I haven't yet managed all three simultaneously!). Sometimes, if an audience is particularly unfortunate, I also attempt a bit of (admittedly poor but enthusiastic) mic work.
I am interested in all sorts of music and I find it quite worrying that there are so many genre-purists around. By genre-purist I mean people who religiously follow one genre and all its conventions whilst actively spurning any musical venture that lies beyond those narrow boundaries (this can be easily observed in the speed garage scene, as well as the grime and Drum and Bass scenes). My mixes recently have focused on a brutal and intricately woven form of dubstep music that I call Clubstep (akin to dubstep, breaks and grime, but more dancefloor oriented than lumbering dubstep, more intricate than grime, and harder&more interesting than breaks) . Check out this example of the kinda sounds I marry together: