Cutting with love – Introducing Mr. Whitelov, Born in Bremerhaven, transatlantic bridgehead. American father, funk and soul since childhood. Very early fun on turntables, soon keen on hip hop culture. Cutting, mixing, rocking. With one driving idea from day one: To be original. Establish your own sound. Spinning a red thread. Leave a musical footprint. Never do the same thing from start to finish, but always remain the same. Ladies & Gentlemen, would you please cheer it up for Mister Michael Whitelov – also known as DJ Stylewarz.
Hip Hop martial arts – stage name Stylewarz. Always ready to fight when it comes to style. Always an artist when it comes to the music. We are talking “Hip Hop”. A lifestyle that never stands still. That demands that you always go one better. Because this culture is always real when it keeps moving.
remains in motion. In the sense of: Putting out energy that carries everyone along. Demonstrating freshness that never wilts. Fighting battles that leave nothing but victors behind. Little interest in bloody floors. Unless we’re talking about dance floors here.
The DJ does what the DJ has to do – spin records, cut, mix. Faster, louder, backwards, across. Battles as skirmishes on the campaign for the final groove. Scratching like a young god is the supreme discipline here. But you can’t rock a dancefloor with a few turntables skills alone. It takes a little more to be a good DJ. Preferably dexterity that meets experience. And a feel for the moment. For the audience and for the beats. For the mood and the MC’s ego. Depending on who you’re spinning for.
Keepin’ it fresh – Three decades at the turntables. That means constantly looking left and right. Gathering influences and incorporating everything into your own work. Filtering, chopping and reassembling from scratch. For the stage, for the club, for the DJ orchestra. Or for your own album on extra-heavy vinyl. DJ Stylewarz has been going straight for years, never crooked. And this despite the fact that his reference list weighs a ton.
