Being the first big city I ever visited after my own, I always looked up London blokes when it came to music taste and new grounds to break, even as a little kid. And it’s a fact, us frogs will always regard through the chunnel to peep the weekly new greatest band on Earth. Rules of the game!

   In my case, peace to Cutmaster Swift, Tim Simenon, James Lavelle, Giles Peterson, IG Culture, Peter Adarkwah, Pete Tong, Trevor Jackson, Erol Alkan, Annie Mac, Fake Blood, Switch, Hervé&Sinden, Martelo, Kissy, James&Jas (SMD), Midfield General (he’s from Brighton, but he counts), Benji B,  Jerry Bouthier, DJ Semtex, Seb Chew&Leo Greenslade, Casper C, Rory Phillips, Prince Charles, my partner Riton, and the PeopleAreGerms for always pointing in the right direction.

         Mehdi.

Peeps,

How proud I am to be one of them:

Dee Nasty, DJ Gilb’R, Loik Dury, Zdar&Boombass, DJ Samad, DJ James, Cut Killer, DJ Abdel, Nasser, DJ Clyde, Solo&Uncle O, Laurent Garnier, Romain BNO, DJ Deep, Dan Ghenacia, Ivan Smagghe, Falcon, Guido, DJ Sek, Mars, JR Ewing, Junkaz Lou, Headbangirl, DJ Pone&Birdy Nam Nam, Jean Nipon, Arthur King, Kazey, Marco Dos, Clara 3000, and of course my main men Busy P, Xavier de Rosnay and DJ Feadz.

Paris owes you guys,

And I do too,

Mehdi.

     There’s a new series on this blog—

  This is no exhaustive list. This is just me, paying my own respect to my peers.

  Some of them are friends. Some are teachers. Some are pioneers.

  They’re all great DJ’s I somehow feel connected to.

    New York City, lick a shot for:

 Afrika Bambaata, Grandmaster Flash, Jam Master Jay, Terminator X, DJ Premier, DJ Scratch, Kid Capri, Stretch Armstrong, Kenny Dope, Louie Vega, Armand Van Helden, James Murphy&Pat Mahoney, Morgan Geist, Mark Ronson, DJ Soul, The Rub (Ayres, Cosmo Baker and Eleven), Amir Abdullah, Neil Aline, Nick Catchdubs, and my main man, DJ A-Trak.