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School of Scratch Philippines Session

May 17, 2017

Back in February, I headed to the Philippines ?? to surf some warm mellow waves for my friend Carla’s birthday, and took a portable turntable with me, just incase there was an opportunity to share the stoke of scratching with others.

Naturally, that opportunity came up and I thought you might like to see what went on.

Surfing and scratching, my two favs! 😀 ???

Part 1 – Single and Unattached at Le Point Bar

Carla hooked me up to play at Le Point Bar who were hosting the after party for this surf contest:

Coast Thru Life Single and Unattached 2017 – A Classic Single Fin Longboard Invitational Contest

Check it out!




After sunset I played some funky hip hop and cut it up fresh:




This was a last minute arrangement. I had one portable turntable and no way to mix so I put on instrumentals in serato internal mode and cut it up and switched tracks drop style. We had some head nodding going on!

View from the booth:

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Shout out to Art, Cesar and Eric, SoS students who showed up for the night.

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I ended up leaving La Union in the north a few days earlier than anticipated to head south back to Manila to stay with School of Scratch student Art and his girlfriend Mar. The idea was to attend a scratch jam event hosted by DJ Trigga and meet some DJs who rumour has it learned a few things using my free tutorials.

Part 2 – Hanging with Art

Art took me to his studio and we got to have a QnA. Art puts in the work and is always practicing, learning and growing.  Super proud teacher moment!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds2-4D3UqLs

Art loves my “happy scratching” video sign off I do in my tuts, so much so that he made this shirt which he wears in his videos in the school. I thought it would funny to wear it myself:

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Part 3 – Sessions Bar Sessions

Finally we headed to Sessions Bar for a scratch jam hosted by DJ Trigga

Marv DJ Marr

I have known Marr virtually for a long time and it was great to meet him in person.

He made this video which gives a great overview of the night:




A video from Art:

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Signing

I got to sign stuff!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206369815444772&set=a.1408904523172.50116.1849246067&type=3

 

Pic by Allen.

Jhay

Jhay took pics which you can find here.

Also a video which right now you need to be his friend to watch:

https://www.facebook.com/jb.ulbata/posts/1626779594018161

UPDATE:

Jhay kindly allowed me to upload the video to my YouTube so you can watch it direct:




DJ Trigga instagram

Thank you Trigga for the fader and slipmats!

http://triggaph.com

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The Crew

Pics by Art:

You can connect with and follow some of the DJs in the session on instagram here:

  • https://instagram.com/arthugreyes – thanks for hosting me, for feeding me so well, for the gifts and for being tour guide! Hawaiian BBQ FTW!
  • http://instagram.com/djtrigga – thanks for the fader and for hosting the jam!
  • http://instagram.com/djsupremefist – thanks for the shirt!
  • http://instagram.com/djrichardking – it was super fun signing your turntable!
  • http://instagram.com/djtorque – thanks for the shirt!
  • http://instagram.com/antsdru
  • http://instagram.com/djmickmartinez
  • http://instagram.com/djmarr – thanks for the hype!
  • https://www.instagram.com/treskulrecords/

Thanks for all the goodies!

Thanks to everyone who hooked me up with merch!

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Sticker stash

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If you were there and I haven’t given you a shout or you have videos that you can share, please leave a comment with your social media links so I can link to you!

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who connected and supported me on this journey from ocean waves to soundwaves.

La Union

  • Carla and Ian Zamora
  • Catia
  • Kage
  • Cesar
  • Mr Toots
  • Jam

Manilla

  • Art and Mar
  • Kage
  • Allen
  • Inky
  • Joy

You guys ROCK!

Coaches

Thanks to my coaches.

  • Arminda Lindsay
  • Karen Pery
  • Gary Mahler

Summary and questions to ponder

How can you travel with a portable and join in a local scratch session?

Your life will be all the richer for it!

Mahal ko kayo lahat! (I love you all!)

Happy Scratching!

– Emma Short-E ?❤️??

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