Skratch Bastid | ar

Paul Murphy a.k.a. Skratch Bastid was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a nerdy kid obsessed with hip hop and after saving his pennies bought turntables and began to pester dj's to help him learn how to master them. The name was born because often within days of being taught a trick by a dj, Paul would master the skill and excel at it often bringing the words "little bastid" to the lips of his teachers. The name was born. But this is where he begins to define himself from the regular dj's. He dominates the competitive circuit playing...

The Invisibl Skratch Piklz were a group of American/Latin/Filipino turntablists. The members of the group were originally hip-hop DJs, who were among the pioneers of the turntablism movement in the 1990s; turntablists create musical pieces by mixing samples from records, by using multiple turntables as instruments. The group started in 1989 as the "Shadow of the Prophet", although Disk and Qbert had already discussed starting a group together, which would gestate into the Invisibl Skratch Piklz. The group began with DJ Q-bert, Mix Master Mike, and DJ Apollo (who left the group in 1993). The group later added DJ Disk,...