Name: Patrick Diaz Nickname: King One aka Upshot DOB: 7/25/79 Instruments: Technic 1200s, Vestax 05, EPS, the triangle and shakers. Locale: Belmont, CA Affiliates: Phat Dawg, The Beat Attic, Children of Productions Artists I've worked with: Various Blends, Anticon, J-Boogie, Oakland Faders, Pauly Tek, Mike Nice, Shortcut, Qbert, Visionaties, Rhettmatic, Freestyle Fellowship, 1200 Hobos, Derek D, O-Dub. Favorite Artists/Musicians: Pete Rock, KRS-One, David Axelrod, Adris Mohammed, Atmosphere, Tribe Called Quest, DJ Shadow, Portishead. Interesting/off the wall facts: PD starting DJing at age 12 and is a vegeterian. Rewind selecta. Backspin the record to the mid 80’s in a small two-story house in Daly City, California. Three children sit completely naive to the fact that what they’re about to hear is parallel to what preachers say when they hear the calling of God, or when two lifelong partners find each other for the first time, or when an alcoholic discovers he has a problem and needs help. Epiphany. Fat Boys harmonized and beat boxed tales of excessive eating and self indulgence in the key of “Don’t Rock The Boat Over”. “Yeah that was the first rap/hip-hop song I remember hearing. I was with my next door neighbor and older brother in his room. I haven’t heard the song since & I highly doubt I’ve heard anything like it.” Understand, what soon to be Spaztik Emcee DJ Patrick Diaz was hearing for the first time was his future ‘rhyming 5 words per musical bar, cutting & pasting beats, creating the enigmatic “klink” sound of a spray can and whispering the rub of Adidas nylon track suits as they hit cardboard’. It was the future proclaiming music. “After that, the first rap song I knew the lyrics to was ICE-T’s ‘Colors’.” Adopting the moniker of DJ King One, he goes into the self proclaimed, new jack hustler’s gangster street soliloquy “‘I am nightmare walking psychopath talking’ . . . Ahh I forgot the rest but it’s still there,” He stops and blinks his eyes and continues, “I remember the first time I heard scratching it was when I saw Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” that video scarred me. All those weird mannequins and puppets, damn.” King One shouldn’t have been afraid, it was better that he heard and saw scratching for the first time via the creative talent of jazz pioneer Herbie Hancock & turntable legend Grandmaster DST, than through Sketcher & GAP ads that kids today do. Now it’s a bit different, he’s gone through the hardcore, strictly hip-hop, aficionado phase, and moved on to equally enjoying other forms of music. From the hard hitting drum break downs of those New Orleans funksters, the Meters, to the whaling torch songs of Radiohead, King One’s crates run a bit deeper than the average hip-hop disc jock/scratcher. “My philosophy on hip-hop and what it can be is that hip-hop could be described a lot like a spring board to other forms of music. I mean it’s obvious through the sampling, you have people buying records by Cat Stevens & James Taylor, but also the appreciation you develop for the intricacies in the music, the lyrics, and the melodies. It’s all people expressing themselves and being creative with it at the same time”. That thought reflects his first endeavor into music. Phonography, which plays somewhat as a mix tape, but more as a pseudo album/catalog of his record collection. Phonography isn’t just mere a collection of hip-hop tracks & jazz breaks its also remixes, turntable songs and other works that he has been fine-tuning for the past fourteen months. Along with King One on his mini opus is Kid Swift (the tapes opening “Phonography” intro) & Day of Innernational (Bomb Record’s Return of the DJ Vol. 3 and Blackberry Record’s Laid In Full). Also spotlighting on Phonography are Sole & Pedestrian of 1200 Hobos/Anticon fame and Finnish wordsmith Pijall. Outside of Phonography, he’s contributed scratches to the upcoming Various Blends Album (“Longitude” & “Re-Chill as I Flex” featuring Del of Hieroglyphics), & Hardcore Punk Band, Cannan. King One has also shared top billing with acts ranging from Anticon, Atmosphere, Mikah 9 & Peace of Freestyle Fellowship, and Visionaries, to deejay crews like 1200 hobos, Space Travelers, Beatjunkies, and even Dj Tim “love” Lee . Tuning Frequencies 2001: After paying dues and joining the ranks of tdk terro(w)rists with Phonography steam began to build. “It was strange, comments king one “ I didn’t know what to really expect, frankly I just thought it would just be something friends and a few random people would feel” Nothing could of been more from the opposite, payoff occurred. “Surrealism started happening, I started getting press in mags like URB,Vice, Vinyl Exchange, & The SF Bay Guardian, I pretty much felt I was at ease with what I was doing, like okay you can rock a mixtape. Mark brought me aboard as his DJ and before I know it I’m at the House of ill Repute in Philly with him and Chops.” As the third member of Spaztik Emcee, King One is poised to stake his claim on the royal DJ throne. Keep an Eye out for his new mixtape WKING RADIO. SOURCE: http://www.spaztikemcee.com/ Listen to King One's True Skool mix King One put together a mix representing artists that have graced the True Skool stage.