Can you tell us a little bit about how you came together Dr Specs: I grew up in SW London and moved to Bristol to pursue higher education. Whilst there, my love of hip-hop drove me to the type of places that Benny was playing.” Benny: I was doing student club nights in Bristol and DJing when Klaud came on board to help with the events. We then moved onto bigger events and eventually into 2000 person capacity shows every week until it just reached a point where we had to come up with bigger ideas for the bookings we were getting and to entertain people. Through that we booked Mike Realm, but after having seen his show, we thought we could do it in a more tailored way which would work better for our audience.
When did the idea for full blown AV start to really take hold for you Benny: We’d already incorporated visuals into our set and then when we saw Mike Realm’s
show we moved into using DVJ turntables which are audio/visual combined. This is back in 2006 and he was mixing and scratching video, it was incredible to see, amazingly cool, but in terms of the crowd demographic he was performing it to and the crowd who were performing to were very different - they didn’t understand it, they weren’t into the music he was playing and they didn’t get the film clips that he was using - it went over their heads. We knew we could create a show that was more tailored to our audience, both with music and film clips that were relevant to our audience, just making it more accessible and in a way for our crowd to enjoy.
How does video change the dynamics of a dancefloor Dr Specs: All your senses are stimulated at once, and the combination of both makes for a bigger and better set.