Selectors: Mr. Scruff

Описание: Dekmantel and Grolsch present: Selectors - Mr. Scruff

Dekmantel and Grolsch continue their collaboration by presenting a new documentary in its Selectors series, this time starring Andrew Carthy, better known as Mr. Scruff. Carthy is a meticulous DJ, a craftsman when it comes to the way he prepares for and sets-up a DJ-set and the video profile is a real college for aspiring and arrived artists alike. “If we’re doing a gig, we’ll probably arrive roughly six hours before the venue opens. Meet all the staff, have a look at all the equipment – we’ll set up everything”, Carthy states in the video. It’s just a nudge of the way Carthy expresses himself in his work and approaches life in general. Next to Carthy himself, the video includes friends and family like his partner Andrea Carthy, VJ Jim Dawson, MC Kwasi Asante, Band On The Wall’s manager Laura McCan and engineer Philip Kirby.

Carthy has been a familiar face at the Dekmantel-events. This year he joined in for Dekmantel Festival (closing the Selectors Stage powered by Grolsch) and Dekmantel Selectors’s third edition. It’s no secret that the Dutch label has been admiring Carthy’s unique approach to his work – Carthy is humble, never compromising, always delivering, whether it’s a spot-on track he produced or a set that you wouldn’t hear twice from him. Engineer Philip Kirby, who has been working on his first albums like Keep It Unreal, s hares that thought: “Andy’s productions are like his DJ’ing: you can’t really pigeonhole him. As a DJ, he never plays the same set twice. You’ve probably seen him DJ a couple of times – I’ve seen him a hundreds and hundreds of times, and he’ll still jump around genres.”

The documentary shines light on his love for his own drawings and how that shapes him as a person, brings up his monthly resident nights at Band On The Wall named Keep It Unreal (which he has been running for 20 years now), goes in-depth on his influences like Manchester Radio and the many different genres he got into afterwards and shows the outstanding way he prepares, sets-up and takes care of a DJ-set, always seeing communication as key. Carthy: “You work to feel part of something. At one point you are and it goes well, and you walk away feeling happy, and everybody else does as well. I notice even if the technical people are happy, the crowd is happy, it’s like you’ve treated everyone with respect. You’ve learned something, and you’re not just there to do your thing and leave.”

CREDITS
Director: Anna Bogomolova
Camera: Dammes Kieft
Editor: Eelco Couvreur
Executive Producer: Bert de Rooij
Producer: Melisa Cenik
Edit: Anna Bogomolova
Music: Mr. Scruff

Thanks to: Andrew Carthy, Andrea Ahimie-Carthy, Jim Dawson, Kwasi Asante, Philip Kirby, Laura McCan, Band on the Wall, Picadilly Records, Kingbee Records.