DJ QbertJuly 25, 2008
*Name: DJ Qbert
*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: Thud Rumble (our DJ products company).
*Do you use a pseudonym? Nope.
*Members: Yogafrog is my business partner if that counts.
*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Turntablist
*Another genre descriptor: I'd rather be called a skratcher, like a skater or surfer would call themselves.
*Is there a story behind your name? When I was in high school I was fat and short. At that time there was a video game called Q*bert. Since my last name, Quitevis, started with a Q and my old buddies thought I looked like the Q*bert character, they started to call me Qbert and the name has just stuck since.
*Location: San Francisco
*Original Location: Well, my parents are from the Phillipines, but I was raised in San Francisco.
*What is your creative/artistic background: Hip hop roots from the early 80's & jazz.
*History: 23 years!
*Born: October, 1969
*Motivations: Studying violinists, horn players, guitarists, etc. painters... anyone who has skills, I go read books about them and look on youtube to see them play and scientifically and spiritually discover what it is that makes them sound so good... then I try and apply that to scratching.
*Philosophy: Playing the turntable like a musical instrument just like any musician would do. I want to get the sounds in my head out into the real world.
*How would you like to be remembered: Someone who followed their dreams and let the dreams come forward.
*Web address: youtube.com/thudrumble
