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Already Registered? Sign in. Skratch Bastid loves to DJ. He has now performed in over 50 countries and continues to add to that list playing over shows annually across the globe. Following the cities where hip hop blew up — New York, L. Along the way, one of the main beneficiaries of Halifax's scene became Toronto. Turn on the radio to CBC Radio 2 and you might hear the smooth voice of Buck 65, or, in the case of this week's subject, visit Revival this Friday and you're bound to find one of Nova Scotia's favourite sons shredding the turntables.

Paul Murphy — aka Skratch Bastid — is one of Canada's premier DJs, and as benefits that distinction, Murphy has a lot of stories to share.

Here we talk about some of Murphy's signature routines, how he played to thousands of Vietnamese teenagers from the inside of a railroad crate, and more.

Back in Halifax, my best friend and I would purchase all the newest rap releases every Tuesday. After buying all these CDs and tapes, we would make mixtapes for our friends and the girls we had crushes on.

Basically, the idea was that my friend and I didn't have the money to buy everything ourselves, so we split the order in half, and then every month we would get together and make a mixtape of all the best songs from those releases.

Eventually, we started playing the music at house parties and what not. Yeah, so his name was the Kuttin' Kracker. He's a lawyer in Halifax now, but he was my best friend growing up. Anyway, we eventually found out that they were still making hip-hop records, and that they were being pressed on vinyl.

They were pressing records with songs that you could not get anywhere but the record, and so we were like, "Wow, we better get into records. Yeah, the first one I entered into was actually one in Halifax. I had my setup in my basement, and while my mom was driving one day, she saw a sign for a local competition called the DJ Olympics.

She knew I had been working really hard in the basement and she said, "Paul, there's this competition you should enter If your mom is basically saying, "Come on, pussy, enter into the competition," then you have to do it, and I did. I came third, and that's where I met Buck 65 , Sixtoo aka Prison Garde, and all the other dudes from the Halifax scene. They were all like, "Who is this guy? Anyway as I said, I came third in that competition, I met everyone in the scene, and that was my big break.

After that I went home, and practiced, practiced, practiced. The next year I won the competition — that was in That was a really big thing for me because I beat Buck 65, who was a DJ back then, and he's someone I learned a lot about music from.

That year, Buck 65 and some of the guys from Halifax also went to Scribble Jam, which I did as well the following year. The story behind that is that the record I used for that routine was a Buck 65 album , and I had used that routine against Rich while defending my title at the local competition. I then took that routine to Scribble Jam where Buck was popular at the time. Someone recorded it and it ended up on Ebaumsworld — laughs that thing was pre-YouTube.

From what I understand, you've recently moved to Toronto? Yeah, so eight years ago I moved from Halifax to Montreal. Anyone in their early '20s loves Montreal, and coming from Halifax, it wasn't too far away from home and I had always liked coming to the city when I was on tour. I moved there in After five years I moved to Toronto. Part of the reason for my move to Toronto was because I had been doing a monthly residency at the Drake Underground. The residency had been going really well, I had met a lot of people in Toronto, and I found that I kind of had my stay in Montreal.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great city but I found that for a working artist, Toronto is a much better place to be. The artistic community in Toronto is incredible, everyone is looking to help each other out, and that in turn helps motivate me to keep working.

It's been a great three years and I can't see myself leaving right now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall you saying that there's something missing in Toronto's scene, or at least there's a niche you believe you can fill with your residency at Revival.

Yeah, a little bit. The idea for me was that for the last ten years I'd been traveling a lot, and that inhibited me from having a residency. I did one at the Drake, but even that meant traveling from Montreal to Toronto. When I moved here, I wanted to take a step back, and I honestly missed having a monthly night. With a residency you get to build a vibe, a scene, and a mini-community around your night. I also wanted to give back to the people around the world that had had me at their own nights.