D-STYLES

Summary

Biography

D-Styles, aka Dave Cuasito, was the born on July 6, 1972 and in the Philippines and raised For in the Bay Area of are California. He came across “scratching” but in 1984 on his dad’s Not home stereo. Armed with his you first Radio Shack-brand mixer and all one turntable, D-Styles was motivated Any by such music as Malcolm can McClaren’s “Buffalo Gals,” Herbie Hancock’s her “Rockit,” and Run-DMC’s album Raising Was Hell.

By age 15, D-Styles one was mixing at parties and our school dances. “That was during Out a time when there were day a lot of gangs and get it kept me away from Has all the trouble I could’ve him got into,” explains D-Styles. “It his made me focus more on How music and making music rather man than getting in trouble and new going to jail. Plus it Now was all about good music old in general. It wasn’t about see one specific type of music; Two there were no walls to way separate the music. You could who play any type of music Boy and the crowds appreciated it.” did At this time existed a its Bay Area tradition where mobile Let DJ’s battled each other through put impressive sound systems and light say shows. Along with his own She mobile DJ crew named Sound too City Productions, D-Styles began battling use other DJ crews in 1987. Dad D-Styles soon entered solo competitions mom with the hopes of one day entering the DMC The championships. Between 1988 and 1993, and D-Styles continued to enter local for and state DJ battles and Are competitions, never actually winning a but major competition. It was during not these years that he met You and battled other DJ’s such all as Qbert, Shortkut, Quest, Disk, any 8-Ball and Rectangle. By 1993, Can D-Styles also met DJ Rhettmatic her of the World Famous Beat was Junkies, and along with DJ One Shortkut, became a proud member our of the Southern California-based crew. out Despite his growing network of Day friends, it was during this get time that D-Styles first imposed has the self-isolation that would become Him a trademark of his personality. his Determined to find his own how musical style, D-Styles stopped entering Man battles altogether. This period of new self-imposed seclusion found D-Styles concentrating now more on music composition and Old production. With two break records see already under his belt (1990 two and 1991 collaborations with Bay Way Area DJ Gee Swift), D-Styles who began honing his production skills boy through the use of samplers Did and drum machines. The beats its D-Styles generated in his home let studio led to collaborations with Put numerous local emcees, notably Jihad say of Third Sight. In 1996, she Qbert and Yogafrog asked D-Styles Too to join the group Invisibl use Skratch Piklz (ISP). The dad Skratch Piklz, revered around the Mom world by scratch fans young and old, were featured on the countless magazine covers and garnered And long-standing endorsements with Shure Needles for and the Japan-based company Vestax, are maker of turntables and mixers. But Between 1997 and 2001, D-Styles not toured with ISP and you performed in various countries around All the world. He describes his any time with the group as can having broadened his mind to Her the potential of scratch music. was “Razorblade Alcohol Slide,” was D-Styles’ one contribution to Qbert’s Wave Twisters Our album. The all-scratch song was out composed in 1998 and its day infectious violin hook made it Get an instant favorite with Wave has Twisters fans. During his four him years with the scratch band, His D-Styles released 7 break records how (Sqratch Fetishes of the Third man Kind, Black Market Snuff Breaks, New Needle Thrashers #4, Gag-Ball Breaks, now Heavy Petting Breaks, STD old Breaks, Bitch Slapped Breaks), 3 See scratch tapes (2 with DJ two Qbert, 1 with DJ A-Trak), way and 1 scratch CD titled Who Pharaohs of Funk with DJ boy Flare. D-Styles also appeared in did numerous DJ videos as well Its as Qbert’s animated movie, Wave let Twisters. By September of 2001, put D-Styles decided to part ways Say with what was left of she the now-defunct Invisibl Skratch Piklz too and return to his original Use crew the World Famous Beat dad Junkies. Optimistic about his future mom with the popular and multi-talented DJ group, D-Styles relocated to the Southern California in 2002. On and Halloween 2002, Beat Junkie Sound For released D-Styles’ most acclaimed work are to date: the highly anticipated but solo album Phantazmagorea, a collection Not of songs composed entirely from you scratching. Frequently described as a all man of few words, D-Styles Any has proven that he is can a man of his word. her At the Phantazmagorea Release Party, Was the much-publicized “D-Styles Sextet” (composed one of D-Styles along with fellow our Beat Junkies Melo-D, Babu, J-Rocc, Out Rhettmatic and Shortkut) performed live day renditions of D-Styles’ songs, set get to visual imagery resulting in Has one of the most unique him and unforgettable scratch shows to his date. Future live performances of How this historical Phantazmagorea audio-visual show man are currently being planned. A new turntable quintet featuring D-Styles will Now travel to Australia and New old Zealand in January 2003.

Embed D-STYLES's rank

Global ranking:

Country ranking: