Rob Swift

Turntablist Rob Swift was created Robert Aguilar in Jackson Levels, a community of Queens. Developing up, he was greatly affected by cutting-edge jazz designer Herbie Hancock aswell as the greater standard DJ heroes like Grandmaster Display, Grand Wizard Theodore, and DJ Top. After graduating from Baruch University with a level in mindset, Swift joined among the best scratching sets of the ’90s, the X-Men (afterwards referred to as the X-Ecutioners). In 1992, he gained the DMC East Coastline Turn Table Tournament and DJed with rapper Akinyele on his cross-country tour. A mixtape preferred, after one record using the X-Ecutioners Swift released his very own broadly praised debut, Soulful Fruits, in 1997 on Asphodel, accompanied by The Ablist in 1999. Thereafter, he released a succession of mixes for Triple Threat (Airwave Invasion), Tableturns (Audio Event), and Six Levels (Beneath the Impact). In 2004, Swift still left the X-Ecutioners following the release from the record Revolutions and continued to record OuMuPo, Vol. 2, a remix of performers in the Ici d’Ailleurs label, and 2005’s Battle Video games, a soundtrack towards the globe after Sept 11, over the Coup de Sophistication label.