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Your A-List: Best Club DJ
While our city has long been known as a live music mecca, over the last decade or so Austin’s dance club scene has been steady blowing up. So who’s got the grooves that make you move? Our Your A-List poll came down to a hotly contested race between long-time party rocker DJ Mel and the younger upstarts from Table Manners Crew. In the end, TMC took the title with 32 percent of the vote.
Table Manners Crew combines the triple-threat talents of DJ Tats, DJ Digg and Dirty Harry. They drop hip-hop from all eras, tastefully spliced together with liberal amounts of funk, dance-hall and body-moving breakbeats. At their long-running residency gig on Saturdays at Plush, the group mixes straight club sets with special theme nights. This week, for example, is an old school hip-hop retrospective. On the decks you’ll hear nothing that dropped past ‘92 and the crowd is encouraged to bust with the parachute pants and chunky gold chains to add to the mood. The crew also does a great job supporting local hip-hop artists, incorporating listening parties and opening spots into their regular events. TMC, we salute you!
Others receiving votes
- DJ Mel, 28 percent
- NickNack, 9 percent
- Stay Gold, 5 percent
- Chicken George, 4 percent
- Toddy B, 4 percent
- DJ Protege, 4 percent
- DJ Manny, 3 percent
- DJ Kurupt, 3 percent
- Car Stereo Wars, 2 percent
- Prince Klassen, 2 percent
- 2DQ, 1 percent
- J.A.M.O.N., 1 percent
- BigFace, < 1 percent
- Baby G, < 1 percent
- DJ Hannibal Beretta, < 1 percent
Write-in votes: Bird Peterson, DJ Boombai, DJ Exceed, DJ Low Profile, DJ Mando, DJ Orion, DJ Rific, DJ Spinner Tee, Jericho One, Weight-Grommit
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By Sool MaFool
April 10, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this
This is well-deserved. Saturday nights at Plush bring out the dance freaks at night. Congrats go out to TMC.
By Dexter Cambridge
April 10, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this
Kinda lame that your poll was done without the inclusion of DJ Grip, DJ Hella Yella, DJ LL, Young Spinna, and Wes Sanders, among others.
But I guess your list speaks to your readership.
By Robert Gabriel's Conscience
April 11, 2008 11:55 PM | Link to this
Robert Gabriel wrote:
NICE ONE SHIED.
By Ben
May 15, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this
Hands down the best DJ’s in Austin.Period. These guys know real music not just the crap you can hear on the radio.