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As an artist he - a white dude from Ohio - has pretty effectively achieved some measure of recognition well outside the hip-hop core.The fact is that RJD2’s work tends to transcend the conventional constraints of hip-hop record spinning; the man is more nearly a sort of Rube Goldberg of sound, who manages to transmute his four turntables and a sampler (that’s right, 4+1) into joints and cogs of a ridiculous and confounding apparatus designed to turn a dozen-dozen records into a single, morphing, organic behemoth of bangers, grooves and hooks…. He spun a crowd-pleasing selection of Old-School hip-hop, and demonstrated his skill in precisely the way that he was able to keep the music going and keep it seamless, employing the tools of the trade - scratching, beat juggling, mixing - without ever once losing the beat or seeming showy.Following Fred’s set was Rob Sonic himself, accompanied onstage by co-MC Creature, and while he clearly demonstrated a knack for lyrics (somewhat tempered by the listener’s inability to hear the majority of them), their rather monotonous flow and constant pleas for audience response - in the form of hackneyed ‘Can I get a “HELL YEAH”, Brooklyn!’