User:CutKeyLow

When I was 5 my mother told me music is life… When I went to Primary school and the teachers asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up, I said a musician, to which my teacher replied I didn’t understand the question. So I looked at my teacher and told her she didn’t understand life.

Music has been in CutKeyLow's life from when he was a little kid sitting in the lounge playing music on his dad's headphones plugged into his dad’s old Hi-Fi, at High Volumes to the point where he would be shouted at to turn it down because it’s 6am in the morning on a Saturday, and people are trying to sleep. But he chooses to turn it louder and carry on signing along.

Years and years went by and CutKeylow’s interest in Music grew and he started messing around with instruments such as Guitars, Pianos, Keyboards and Drums… Just to mention a few… CutKeyLow had always been amazed by DJ's his whole life and was introduced to DJing by the age of 17. He had seen other DJ's scratching and mixing on Music Vids and Parties etc.. so he thought it was time to put his hands on a set of turntables and a mixer and see what these awesome instruments can do.

Since that day, it has been a snowball effect for CutKeyLow, where he has pushed and skilled himself to new levels in the DJ Industry, from playing all different genres of Music, for e.g. Techno, House, to Drum n Bass, to Breaks, and eventually finding his calling and Passion which was Hip Hop, to which he built himself an exceptionally good name throughout South Africa for the next 10 years, namely in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, and a little bit overseas as he had done networking with numerous artists. Playing at top clubs and events on a frequent basis, He landed his first club Residence at well-known club in Downtown Johannesburg called Reality, which eventually became Insanity for a year and a half, before the club eventually closed down. He had also played at other well-known clubs and events such as Sublime, Woodstock, Fu-Cha, Ramfest, Truth, The Woods, Town Hall, Mercury Live, Tokyo Star, Bassline, Jawfest, Knowledge Bass Events, Buttjjigga Events, Spindle Events and the list could go on forever, as well as in 2009 he entered the Technics DMC 2009 Scratch Championships and placed 3rd for Johannesburg which got him a spot in the finals for South Africa which was held at Mercury Live in Cape Town, and then the following year was an Official Judge at the Technics DMC 2010 Scratch Championships.

CutKeyLow has had his hands in some of Johannesburg’s biggest productions to date in the industry, helping organize Hip Hop Floors at Numerous events, Namely Science Frikshun, INISHI-8 and Dubmental. He was also the founder of the on-going Legendary Science Friskhun label and events, when he approached Rude One with "The Science Frikshun Concept" in 2007 and asked him if he would be interested in running a Drum n' Bass floor as he wanted to start a Hip Hop label for Johannesburg and South Africa, and from past experiences knew that Hip Hop and Drum n' Bass went hand in hand. After 1 year of Science Friskhun running Steady with Numerous Internationals under the label’s belt. Cutkeylow left to go overseas for a year to travel and Network and Rude One carried on with the label.

Amongst all of his projects and networking CutKeyLow has also recorded some of his own tracks featuring Safar-I from Articulate Artists as well as featured on 2 of the Articulate Artists tracks that was released on the debut album called The Workhorse Program. Currently Cutkeylow has stepped back from the Hip Hop scene for a little while here in South Africa though as the scene has gone way to pear shaped as said in his own words, "Everyone nowadays juss wanna see how good they look at parties and how much money they have spent on the latest pair of sneakers or the shiniest pair of ear rings or summin to that level of BS!, And that to me is not Hip Hop."

So as been a DJ and wanting to keep his Soul Alive and been involved with the Science Friskhun and Dubmental Parties, he slowly starting finding an ear for Dubstep, which he gradually started promoting himself with (not forgetting Hip Hop as his passion) it took a while to get into the scene as it is a very competitive genre just as Hip Hop is, but it never held him back from pushing and promoting himself as an up and coming Dubstep DJ, He has been playing Dubstep for just under a year now, but because of his Big Drops, Track Selection, Clean Mixes and Filthy Beats he now is recognized as one of the biggest names in the Dubstep Scene in South Africa and and has become a house hold name once again in a whole new world of Music, so keep watching this space, cos you will definitely be seeing more of him than what you expect, as his roster is already full landing himself gigs all around South Africa again., and again, and again. He is booked full for the next 2 months and the list is getting longer as he is becoming a Dance Floor Spectacular more and more every time he plays… So be sure not to Miss CutKeyLow sometime behind the 1’s and 2’s as he will be a in a city near you sooner than you think.. dropping his huge baselines and dirty, grimy beats…