DJ Blakey
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DJ Blakey | |
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| Birth name | Richard Blake |
| Origin | London, UK |
| Genres | DJ |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Website | http://www.soundcloud.com/blakeydj |
DJ Blakey (born 3 September 1985) is a DJ from London, England. He won the UK DMC final in 2004.
Career
[edit]Between 2004 and 2007, he hosted a weekly show on BBC 1Xtra.
He has held a residency at Fabric, London.
In 2007 he supported Jurassic 5 throughout their entire UK tour, and has also supported Nas in 2007 at the Bristol Academy, and Jay-Z in 2004 at the Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival.
He was employed by FreeStyleGames, a subsidiary of Activision, where he was working closely on the video game DJ Hero.[citation needed]
He collaborated with composer Daniel Pemberton as a scratch DJ on the score for the movies Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Trivia
[edit]- He contributed the first ever "Mini Mix" on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show, days before competing in the 2004 DMC World Final.
- In 2001 at the UK ITF Final at Cargo nightclub in Shoreditch, London, he was asked to fill the place of a non showing DJ, as he had a bag of records with him. He placed 3rd.
Discography
[edit]Singles
[edit]- If You See Me / Back Then (Slime Recordings) (Summer 2012)
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