DJ Cutler

LoDo Industries recording artist DJ Cutler resides in Buffalo, NY. He has performed alongside the likes of Pete Rock, Biz Markie, Jeru the Damaja, Bernard Purdie, DJ Vadim, Aloe Blacc, DJ Muggs, Snoop Dogg, Orgone, Kool G Rap, People Under the Stairs, Odean Pope, Les McCann, Dilated Peoples, Murs, DJ Revolution, the Wu Tang Clan, Soundtribe Sector 9, Alan Evans of Soulive and many others. He is one-third of the Pseudo Intellectuals and he frequently builds with the homies Scott Down, Optimus Prime, LoPro, Daringer, Eric Crittenden, Brownman (of Guru's Jazzmatazz), and your mother.

winner of Scion's national Free Up Your Mix Contest (2006)
#4 on The Toronto Star's The Anti-Hit List (2010)
URB Magazine, America's Best Local DJs (2010)
five-time nominee for Buffalo's Best DJ by Artvoice (2005-2010)
heavy rotation in your mother's tape deck (right now)

media approbation:

"DJ Cutler, in my opinion is one of the best DJs out of Buffalo, NY and probably the best kept secret of all hip hop DJs in America." Jason Chang, URB Magazine (2010)

"No one, however, has done quite what Down and Cutler managed to do here. 'Ultimate Breaks and Beatles' celebrates the enduring magic of the original music. But more importantly, it rescues the mash-up from the very real threat facing it: the danger of it becoming too trendy, too easy to execute, too much a product of the computer technology and not of the imagination. 'Breaks and Beatles' recontextualizes the art and the artifacts themselves, and if the Beatles' music doesn't actually need any assistance in retaining its relevance, Down and Cutler have managed to find new possibilities in that music. Kudos are due." Jeff Miers, The Buffalo News (2009)


"The track I'm sharing for this post remixes the much-celebrated 'A Day in the Life,' which one critic famously compared to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (itself an early example of literary 'sampling'). Down and Cutler begin by splicing Lennon's ethereal vocals into Les DeMerle's haunting jazz cover of the same song. Hip hop heads will immediately recognize DeMerle's cover as the backing track to O.C.'s 'Time's Up,'� itself a song worthy of the highest compliments and comparisons. Indeed, the DJs also include numerous fragments from 'Times Up,' calling our attention to the way one great song can beget another great song that begets yet another great song. During McCartney's B-Section, Down and Cutler switch to the original Beatles track, but they add a significant twist: phat bass booms, syncopated drum fills, and scratching that enhance Ringo's subdued playing gives us the familiar Beatles sound filtered through a hip hop lens. I can no longer listen to the original version of 'A Day in the Life'� without hearing these additions in my head. Perhaps I now prefer Down and Cutler's hyperreal version of the Beatles." Loren Kajikawa, soul-sides.com, 2010

"The 716 Lesson will make you party like it's 1977 and the blizzard has you shut in with nothing but a stack of records and a case of cream ale. Make sure you have your Bobby McAdoo jersey on, too! We already can't wait for Volume III." Artvoice (2009)

"A remarkable four-minute aural detour that conflates John Lennon's vocals from The Beatles' original with a kickass jazz-fusion cover of the same song by one Les DeMerle, all interspersed with scratching, rapping, drum fills and sound effects. More like 'A Day and a Half in the Life,'� if you ask us." The Toronto Star (2010)

"This right here is a journey, no joke. The genre tag on the mp3s says 'adventure,' and that's actually a pretty apt description. Over the course of 25 tracks Scott Down and DJ Cutler mash together a slew of Beatles originals, Beatles covers (mainly of the soul and funk variety), rap songs sampling these covers, a handful of classic breaks, and some occasional Beatlemania jetsam just for the hell of it. They do this so well that in its relatively short running time the mix manages to give the listener a whole new appreciation for the legacy left by the four limey muppets. I won't attempt to go into further detail as the mix contains some very complex and often mind blowing song manipulation" steadybloggin.com (2010)

"Forget what you heard, underground hip-hop is alive and well, and thankfully, Scion is one of the leaders making sure some of the finest DJs and undiscovered hip-hop talent have an outlet for their talents. In this CD sampler, DJ Cutler, winner of Scion's Free Up Your Mix contest, has put together a wicked mix of conscious hip-hop, highlighting his impeccable scratching techniques and song selection skills.... Bottom line, DJ Culter is one of the brightest DJs out there, holding hip-hop down for anyone who dares to step into the bad (meaning good) side. 5/5" soulmattersmag.com (2007)

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