DJ Blakey

DJ Blakey
DJ Blakey
Birth name Richard Blake
Origin London, UK
Genres DJ
Years active 1999–present
Website http://www.soundcloud.com/blakeydj

DJ Blakey (born 1985) is a DJ from London, England. He won the UK DMC final in 2004.

Career

Between 2004 and 2007, he hosted a weekly show on BBC 1Xtra.

He has held a residency at Fabric, London.

In 2007 he supported Jurassic 5 throughout their entire UK tour, and has also supported Nas in 2007 at the Bristol Academy, and Jay-Z in 2004 at the Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival.

He is currently employed by FreeStyleGames, a subsidiary of Activision, where he is working closely on the upcoming video game DJ Hero[citation needed].

Trivia

  • He contributed the first ever "Mini Mix" on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show, days before competing in the 2004 DMC World Final.
  • In 2001 at the UK ITF Final at Cargo nightclub in Shoreditch, London, he was asked to fill the place of a non showing DJ, as he had a bag of records with him. He placed 3rd.

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