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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 …

New York-based turntable group the X-ecutioners were, alongside San Francisco’s Invisibl Skratch Piklz, one of the primary all-DJ outfits to signal a recording contract, and the first ever to to push out a full-length record concentrating on the art of turntable tricknology. Previously referred to as the X-Men (they transformed …