Sonotheque and Formulawerks Present "BOOMBAP"THE HIP HOP BATTLE ROYALE
C-Mass and X-Ray VS. INTEL and Pickel
With live art by Joey Potts and Revise
Doors at 9pm$5 cover

This month were presenting you a HIP HOP BATTLE ROYALE between Boombap residents C-Mass and X-Ray and Formulawerks own Intel and Pickel. The nite is sure to pleaseevery and any fan of hip hop so come early get some drinks and let these four Dj's present you with some of the best music on the best soundsystem in the city period.This ones going to be fun. INTEL Intel is on the rise. A member of the nationally recognized battle crew the PlatterPirates and rapper Pugslee Atomz's stage DJ, he recently picked up weekly residency at Zentra and is popping up as a guest DJ in spots all around the city. Popular in the B-boy community as a break-dance friendly selector, he can also weave downtempo joints into the evening. Intel, whose given name is Jason Deuchler, grew up in OakPark, where, he says, he was a typical social kid. Friendly with everybody, he did the usual things -- a little floor hockey, a little theater, some of this, some of that. But in the early 1990s, he started messing around with his brother's turntables. Before long, he'd taken the name DJ Intel, and hooked up friends Spryte and DJ Adept, who'd started a break-dance crew called Chicago Tribe. We were abunch of DJs and we just wanted to throw parties, he says. So they started having house parties in Forest Park, and that's where he learned the rush of being a DJ. Anytime you're at a party or a show, the music is what drives everything, so the DJ forces the direction of the party, he says. The whole environment is based on themusic. It's really awesome. In a way, he says, the DJ is the benevolent manipulator. It's cool to get the reaction out of it, to get on the turntable and pick a song and make someone's night or make someone's day just like that, at the spur of the moment. Soon he'd progressed to a now-defunct spot on Madison Street in Forest Park called The Playoffs. To hype their night, Intel and his friends would head downtown with Xeroxed flyers. We were always taken aback by how many people came out to Forest Park, he says. Back then, there were always a lot more smaller18-and-up shows in Chicago, so we'd make up flyers and hit all of those shows. Now it would be difficult for a similar thing to happen. The whole Anti-Rave Act really kind of shut that whole do-it-yourself vibe, Intel says. I always get calls from people who are looking for a venue to throw an all-ages jam where people can dance and break and have fun. That kind of place is almost nonexistent now unless you goto an art gallery, and that will cost you a chunk of change. After almost five years of playing clubs and parties, Intel and Spryte started the Platter Pirates, a crew that has won several turntablist competitions and now has members in California, Texas, Iowa, Colorado and Chicago. I battled a few times. But I am definitely more into the music side, says Intel. Spryte took it up and excelled --he was the International Turntablist Federation World Scratch Champion. Now, as Intel enjoys the fruits of all of his interests, he's happy to still be in Chicago. This is a place where you can bring the club thing, the scratch thing, the B-boything all together. That's totally possible. The crowds in Chicago let you play a set and incorporate all of that, and they really enjoy it.

PICKEL: Born on the first of the year in 1978, deejay pickel was well on his way to sample as much Air Supply and Christopher Cross that the Brickyard K mart would sell him.Having been introduced to hip hop in like 86 from his cousin in LA, things began to progress. While growing up on the northwest side of Chicago Pickel would also go to Long Island once a year to visit with his grandparents. His grandfather exposed him to as much ny as a boy could dream of. This would later emerge into a great love for NY's greatest export: hip-hop. He started making beats on a Gemini sampler and two fugazi-ass turntables. Sampling the Shabona Park cheerleaders chant, jump shakeyour booty, jump jump shake your booty. Eventually he would form a group with hisschool buddies entitled, "The Epitamy of Urban Youth." The group was like three kids that just saw the movie Juice and then decided to rap like MC Pooh. They would later record a demo on the Singalodeon Karaoke machine and eventually send it toMichael Bivens. That was back in like 90 it is now the year 2005. Whats up Biv? We're starving in the Chi. Later at 17, he went back to NY to visit his cousins in Queens. This was the shit. All along while coming up in chicago he would get shitfrom punk ass gansta rap wannabee ass dudes. They'd say "o, he be on that New York shit. I guess liking the new Craig Mack makes you un-Chicago? So the story goes... He heard the Wu on Hot 97's moring show with Dr. Dre and Ed Lover, instant gratification... That's fucking dope.