As the year beats on by, the first Red Bull Thre3Style International DJing competition is heating up by the minute. With the regional competitions having concluded in Canada, the U.S.A. and Japan, and countries such as Switzerland, France and Columbia spring-loaded and ready to get going with their own regionals, the competition is set to bring the noise.
Things got off to a party-rocking start at the beginning of the year with the Red Bull Thre3Style Canada regional events. Across the country, top-notch DJs battled it out using an arsenal of party starting genres and tip-top technical skills and tricks to win the crowd and judges favour. In the end, after an exhilarating, nail-biting final in Toronto, judged by the likes of A-Trak and Team Canada, it was Kingston’s DJ Drastik who took the title delivering a dynamite combination of hip-hop, electro and funk complete with attitude and technical prowess.
According to DJ Drastik, “Red Bull Thre3Style just allows for more options compared to other DJ battles in my experience. With genres being more blurred, it’s about the party and that’s what people want. They don’t want to go and listen to people scratch for 15 minutes. Just judging by the crowds you can see that this is going to take off. It really elevates the DJ battle.”
In the U.S. the Red Bull Thre3Style events have been on an epic scale and have shown off the top party rocking talent in some of the best venues around the States. From the electro-funk swagger of DJ-M Squared who took the title in Miami to the lady of the hour, DJ April Reign whose musical depth and deliverance beat the boys at what they thought they did best in Cincinnati, the U.S. finals in October promise to be a night of epic DJing showmanship.
With Japan’s national final set for the 15th of August and the other participating countries, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom having already set their dates and chosen their participants, the next half of 2010 is going to be a furious world-battle for DJ party starting domination culminating in the international finals in Paris on the 9th of December.
“In a lot of the regional finals there are often certain DJs who are crowd favourites, and that helps them, but that won’t be the case for the international finals, and the finalists going to Paris are all going to be very good so it’s going to be interesting to see who wins,” says internationally acclaimed DJ A-Trak. ‘Interesting’ is probably an understatement, as participants and viewers alike from around the globe eagerly wait to find out who will be crowned the best party-rocking DJ in the world.
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