The Serato Icon Artist Series continues with DJ Z Trip. Back in high school when I heard there was another "Live at Future Primitive" mix featuring the "Bombshelter DJs" Z Trip and Radar, I had to have it. This was after I'd already been obsessing over Shortkut and Cut Chemist's Future Primitive mix and was ready for anything Future Primitive related. Needless to say I was blown away by the intricate mixing and flawless scratching, it's stilll one of my favorites. I went on to dig up many of Z Trip's other live mixes and was always impressed at how original and creative he was, not afraid to go out on a ledge and play some crazy mashup (long before mashups were even known as mashups, all manual vinyl blending!).

The 2010 QSU Valedictorian, Zeke, has just put out this video with fellow Aussie DJ/Producer, Kit Pop. This is a nice look into what they've been working on together, quality editing and audio! The first 8 minutes or so is a behind the scenes look at them getting ready, and then it moves into live footage from a recent show they did. 

Thank you all for coming out to the first ever QSU Open House! It was a blast, really aweseome to meet some more of my QSU brothers! I was so nervous speaking (those who were there can tell you - I literally froze up!).  I spoke from the heart though and hopefully made some sense. Congrats to our 2012 Valedictorian DJ IQ - exclusive interview coming soon!

Aside from his YouTube tutorials, QSU Guest Professor Alex Sonnenfeld is known for developing S-Notation - which he talks about in depth in this interview. We just uploaded a new tutorial in his series on "Real Instrument Skratching": check em out in the Guest Professors area!

He's a fascinating character who's very passionate about music and skratching, so without further ado we bring to you: The Alex Sonnenfeld Interview.