In celebration of Ambush Records releasing the remixes of Bloodclaat Gangsta Youth, we proudly present for your delectation:

Top Ten DJ Scud

1. Bloodclaat Gangsta Youth – Kill or be Killed (Full Watts 01)
“I am the original don gadda – I MURDER PEOPLE BEFORE!!!” This one has it all, really, soundclash samples, rave stabs, distorted bashment riddem. All pressed on a seven inch with a big hole. The Rephlex album has the version side, and there are some remixes just out, but the original is a must.

2. Snipers at Work – Mash The Place Up (Ambush 04)
Great bit of rolling drum and noise with Mad Cobra vocal sample. Plus excellent squeaky trebly bits.

3. DJ Scud – No Love (Transparent 01)
Scud does girly two-step. With added screaming.

4. DJ Scud – Stormtrooper (Ambush CD2)
The usual hurtling amen breaks fall down into a spacey Iration Steppas-esque UK dub section featuring a female vocal sample singing “when the music just doesn’t feel right”.

5. Asian Dub Foundation – Witness (DJ Scud Remix)
He should do more remixes, innit. Adds the full repertoire of siren noises, “mutha fukkin FOOL” vocal samples and noise to the ADF track.

6. DJ Scud – Put up your Lighters (Ambush 10)
Mentalist rewind shouty business.

7. DJ Scud – In The Charts Again (kool.POP)
Anti-fascist anthem which rips apart the sample of The Exploited\’92s singer saying “Hitler’s in the Charts Again”. The “chorus” is pretty much all swearwords.

8. DJ Scud & Aphasic – Justify My Hate (Ambush 02)
“Kill your parents, fuck your friends… and have a nice day”. Over a destroyed version of the break from the Madonna track.

9. DJ Scud – Are you down (with the Underground?) (kool.POP)
Pumping, in a pogoing sort of way. With mad repetition of the Underground Resistance vocal.

10. Wasteland – Lungfuls of Air (Transparent)
Uncharacteristically peaceful and beautiful electronica from the new collaboration with I-Sound.

Top 3 Scud Anecdotes

1. When Scud and Aphasic took the early Ambush releases to “a Top London Drum and Bass record shop”, the guy behind the counter put the needle on the record for about a millisecond before removing it and saying “nah mate, we don’t want that”.

2. Scud’s collaboration with Nomex entitled “Eurostar” saw the two of them on railway station platforms in South London recording the train as it passed. The idea was apparently to use the sounds to create a new bassline which would rival the then popular No-U Turn tech-step sound.

3. Scud is allegedly banned from London’s Sick & Twisted club after playing a set consisting entirely of the sweetest girly r&b and garage there.