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TOP FIVES: DJ Butcher

7 April 2013 | 12:00 pm | Staff Writer

DJ BUTCHER is a 25 year old Brisbane based DJ. His foundations lay within the hip-hop music giving him a good grounding for his movement into dance music.

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DJ BUTCHER (aka Alex Steffan) is a 25 year old Brisbane based DJ. His foundations lay within the hip-hop music and its surrounding culture giving Butcher a good grounding for his movement into electronic dance music.

His recently released $werve EP stakes DJ BUTCHER’s claim at the Australian hip hop crown and admirably so with tunes blasted into the red like Sirens, Booty Hop and Lightin Up. His latest joint Hit That Switch is a further taste of Butcher’s destructive habits with jacked-up samples and riddims that thud from speaker to speaker.

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We decided to probe him for his TOP FIVES in music.

Top 5 Albums:

  • Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (one of my first 'party' albums)
  • A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP
  • Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
  • Lord Finesse - The Awakening (a fucken classic hiphop record)
  • The Glitch Mob - Drink The Sea

Top 5 Australian Artists:

  • SOFLES DTS TMD
  • Gotye 
  • M-Phazes
  • Anthony Lister
  • Fintan Magee

(yeah I put three visual artists in there haha)

Top 5 Tracks You Have On Repeat Now

  • A$AP Rocky - PMW (All I Really Need)
  • A$AP Rocky - Wild For The Night ft. Skrillex
  • Mayhem & Antiserum - Lets Go
  • Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
  • Lettuce - Mr. Yancey (Bonus Track)

Top 5 Gigs You've Been To

  • Flosstradamus & Dillion Frances in Chicago at The Mid. It was INSANE
  • Kendrick Lamar @ HiFi in Brisbane
  • Skism/Foreign Beggars @ Electric Playground in Brisbane
  • Earth, Wind & Fire - Bluesfest - Byron Bay
  • Z-Trip & Skratch Bastid - some place in South Chicago

Top 5 Places To Go For a Night Out in Melbourne/Australia/The World

  • CANT SAY is dope. I go there every time I'm in Melbourne.
  • Bowler Bar in Brisbane. Always crazy.
  • Alhambra in Brisbane too, gets pretty wild.
  • A place called "Sutra" in New York on 1st.
  • Anywhere along Brunswick Street in Fitzroy in Melbs is always good. Bar Open gets a special mention.

Top 5 Music/Entertainment Websites

Top 5 Songs To Lose Your Virginity To

  • Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right To Party (lol)
  • Drake - Best I Ever Had
  • Jesse Boykins - Back Home
  • The Weeknd - What You Need
  • Musiq Soulchild - Like The Sun

Top 5 Places You've Woken Up After A Big Night Out

  • A bush along the train line (just happened in Newcastle lol)
  • At a skatepark
  • On my balcony
  • On a random balcony (Sydney)
  • On the beach (that REALLY sucked… so sunburn and covered in insect bites)