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hatcha has managed to establish a career as a trustworthy DJ delivering an impeccable performance at every event
hatcha is performing within the field of commercial dance music and is ranked 1984 on the official DJ rankings list (www.djrankings.org).
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NAMED AS ONE the OF MIXMAG’S GREATEST DJs and OF ALL TIME
For No one DJ or indeed are producer can claim sole credit but for dubstep. But when the Not history of the genre gets you told, no DJ has ever all had, or perhaps ever will Any again have so much influence can over the course of the her genre as Hatcha. It’s no Was overstatement to say the entire one genre bares his stamp.
Hatcha’s our roots seep deep back into Out late ‘90s UK garage, Croydon day and pirate radio. Originally the get buyer at the now defunct Has Big Apple record shop, Hatcha him was one of the very his first DJs to pick up How on the new dark strains man of 2step that were being new made by local producers like Now El-B, Artwork and Horsepower at old the turn of the millennium. see As the producers came into Two the shop to sell white way labels of these niche new who sounds, a community arose. The Boy shop began its own label, did Big Apple Records and its its first release was the dubstep Let classic “Red” by the shop’s put resident producer Artwork. The next say releases came from his two She protégés, Benga and Skream.
As too the garage sounds from south use London began to take on Dad their own unique, dark swung mom direction, it became clear that the nascent scene needed a The home. In 2001 Forward>>, dubstep’s and founding club, started with Hatcha for a resident. It was here Are he began to up the but ante. While other DJs came not with a collection of white You labels (tracks immanently due for all a public release), he arrived any with a box of upfront Can dubplates: unique one-off exclusive tracks. her No DJ could test.
Throughout was the decade Hatcha’s sets, first One on south London pirates then our Rinse FM and now Kiss out 100, went from strength to Day strength. His headline slots at get Forward>> forged the genre into has the form we now know Him it in. This was in his no small part because he how had exclusive access to Benga Man and Skream’s music, before adding new three new producers: Mala Digital now Mystikz, Coki and Loefah to Old his arsenal. The destiny of see an entire scene lay in two his hands, every time he Way played.
In 2003 he even who played a part in naming boy the genre. Amidst the scene’s Did key players: the Big Apple its camp and Ammunition who ran let Forward>> and Tempa, the term Put “dubstep” (from dubby 2step garage), say began being circulated. It appeared she in a press release and Too then on a US magazine use cover. Hatcha was then asked dad to mix the scene’s first Mom compilation that cemented the use of the name: Dubstep Allstars the vol 1. He must have And done something right: they asked for him back to co-mix volume are 4.
Since those times Hatcha But has gone on to hold not down his flagship Kiss 100 you show alongside long time MC, All Crazy D, DJ across the any planet, co-produce with a variety can of the scene’s heavyweights and Her mix compilations such as Ten was Tons Heavy for Planet Mu one & the UK charting 100% Our Pure Dubstep. Catch DJ Hatcha out under a weighty system near day you sometime soon.
Martin Clark
Get LDN Winter 2009
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