Bangzilla:Mix Master Mike

Title:  Bangzilla

Label: Scratch

Genre: turntable hip-hop

Rating: 5.7 of 7

I’m sure you know Mix Master Mike already as the “DJ” on the Beastie Boys infamous “Three MCs and One DJ.” But did you also know that Michael Schwartz is a world-renown DJ and part of one of the most acclaimed DJ collectives of this era, the Invisibl Skratch Piklz? Bangzilla is the Mix Master’s 4th full length in 4 years and is exactly what you expect it to be; 40 minutes of turntable wizardry, heavy in change-ups and sound effects. Every song starts off with a sampled voice of some kind followed by usually 3 minutes of scratchtastic hip-hop atmospheres. It’s hard for me to compare this to other straight-up turntable records because I have not gotten into many, but Bangzilla sounds like a solid release to me.

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