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One
of the worlds top B-Boys Djs and an active B-Boy> this
guy plays music and dances to it!
Grand
Supreme Timber Machine: B-boy & DJ extraordinaire Is down
with: Mighty Zulu Kingz / Bad Taste Crew / Belfast City Breakers
/ Horsepower DJ Militia / Flava Squad
Very
very brief history: Timber grew up in Belfast (Northern Ireland)
where he was schooled by Belfast City Breakers about all things
hip hop. Went swimming in the Irish Sea in 2001, got lost,
after a week he found land then started walking before sitting
down in Manchester (cus it was raining) & he's been based
here ever since.
Timber
loves music & he loves B-Boyin. They are the two main passions
in his life & as long as he can remember he has fascinated
with them. Without music, he would not be dancing and without
dancing, he would have no need for music. The more he learns
about music, the more he learns about dancing & the more he
learns about dancing, the more he learns about music!
Dancing
has offered him an insight into DJing, especially for B-Boys,
not just in terms of what to play, but when to play it and
how to play it. Knowing how to play for B-Boys is almost as
important as knowing what to play.
After
a number of underground mix CDs, Timer put out his first "proper"
release "Super Bad" on Breakin Bread in summer 2007.
He
believes that Hip Hop is about taking what others have done
before you and making it your own. As a B-Boy & a music lover
(something every dancer should be) the thing that excites
him the most is hearing music that he's never heard before,
its like when you are presented with a plate of food which
you'd never tasted before, the feeling you get when it agrees
with you cannot be beaten.
This
is where he believes hisinsight as a B-Boy helps him as a
DJ, its knowing what music agrees with the danceform that
is B-Boying. To him, B-Boying is about dancing (not tricks!!)
and dancing is about music, the more he learns about the various
rhythms of the dance, the more he understands what music suites
B-Boyin the best!
In
the last few years Timber has spun at B-Boy events such as
United Styles 3 (Boston, USA), Floor Flords 26th Anniversary
(Boston USA), Circle Prince South East Europe 2007, KCPA Korean
Festival, (Trafalgar Square, London), West Coast Istra Battle
(Croatia) 2007, Irish Hip Hop Championship 2007, Talk Is Cheap
2 (Norway), Royal Clash (Austria), Process 06 (Mcr), Red Bull
Break In at Oxegen Festival (Ireland), Battle Of The Year
North East Europe 2006 (Poland), Regional Conflict - (UK B-Boy
Champs UK Eliminator 2006 & 2007, both regional heats & national
finals), Red Bull Battle Of Moves @ Hultsfred Festival (Sweden),
Unbreakable Jam 2006 (Naples, Italy), Breakin Convention (London),
Proti Gravitacii 2 & 3 (Slovakia, 2006 / 2007), Bring It On
The Floor 2006 (Germany), Battle Of The Year German national
finals 2005, Battle Of The Year Czech national finals 2005,
Enemy Squad's 20th Anniversary (Budapest, Hungary, 2004),
Banana Jam (Reading), Battle Of Ireland, Banana Jam, Battle
Of Britain, UK University B-Boy Champs (Newcastle), Belfast
City Breakers 20th Anniversary, Thursday Night Throwdown,
LG Action Sports Weekend (Manchester), Art Of War (Warwick)
and many many more!
Past
& current residencies include Breakin Bread (London), Fresh
Jive (Leeds), C'mon Feet (Manchester), Whatever The Weather
(Manchester), Fish Fry (Manchester) & more.
Timber
has also performed as European tour DJ for Freestyle (Arsonists
/ Rock Steady - NYC)) & takes great pride in the fact that
once b-boys hear him DJ they always invite him back! After
being headhunted Timber spent 2 years working at Vox Pop Records
dealing in a wide variety of mainly 2nd hand music.
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