Rob Swift

Rob Swift，美國東海岸Hip-Hop DJ、Turntablist（唱盤藝術(shù)家）的代表人物。
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Rob Swift在1989加入了美國最頂尖的四人Scratch（搓盤）團體之一 —— X-MEN（后來被稱為X-ecutioners），成為靈魂領(lǐng)導(dǎo)性人物之一。他們是Hip Hop歷史上第一支搓盤團隊，曾取得過多項美國及世界頂尖DJ大賽的團體冠軍頭銜。
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在1992年，Rob Swift奪得DMC大賽東岸冠軍, 并開始為MC Akinyela和Large Professor擔(dān)任DJ。 　　
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他是個技術(shù)出色的DJ，也是個審美獨到的音樂制作人。1997年，Rob Swift和X-ecutioners發(fā)行了他們的第一張專輯《Soulful Fruit》并受到了各界的好評，他的靈感便滾滾而來，1999年的《The Ablist》，接下來的《Airwave Invasion》, 《Sound Event》, 和《Under the Influence》。
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2004年，在發(fā)行了專輯《OuMuPoVol. 2》后，Rob Swift離開了X-ecutioners。在這之后的兩年里，他又發(fā)行了《War Games》和《Back to the Beat》兩張專輯。
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Rob Swift曾經(jīng)合作過的音樂人名單里包括了Red Hot Chili Peppers、Herbie Hancock等重量級人物。他也是眾多知名Hip-Hop DJ的音樂合作伙伴，例如Q-Bert、Roc Raida等等。
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直到今天，他仍在鉆研唱盤技術(shù)和音樂制作，并始終在推動著DJ界的發(fā)展，并愿意與聽眾、觀眾分享最好的音樂和現(xiàn)場演出！
Born and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, by Colombian heritage, Swift (born Robert Aguilar) began DJing at the age of 12 by watching his father and brother. “My dad was a salsa and merengue DJ. My brother learned how to scratch and do all the hip hop deejaying stuff on my dad’s equipment (without his permission) and I’d sit there and watch him. When I entered the sixth grade, I decided I wanted to learn.” So unlike those who were influenced through hip hop records, DMC and NMS tapes, or movies, Swift educated himself with the classic turntable beats of the early 1980s New York playground pioneers while listening to funk and jazz at home. “My older brother exposed me to all that,” he says. “All the stuff I create as a DJ is rooted in the songs that I heard from Bob James, Herbie Hancock and James Brown to Quincy Jones and old DJs like Grandmaster Flash and Grand Wizard Theodore. That’s where my roots are.”
In 1990, Swift enrolled as a student at Baruch College in New York and in 1995, graduated with a degree in psychology. “While I was deejaying I pursued college. Speech class and English serve a purpose, you know?” His education can be said to translate into his cerebral style of scratching, juggling and making music.