Mix Master Mike Rifflandia, Victoria BC, September 15

As originally published by Alan Ranta on Exclaim!Michael Schwartz, aka Mix Master Mike, knows his way around a turntable. Best known as the DJ for the Beastie Boys from Hello Nasty onward, he actually spent most of the '90s winning DMC World DJ Championships alongside DJ Qbert, with whom he would form the revolutionary turntablist outfit Invisibl Skratch Piklz (see the 2001 documentary Scratch). The nature of DJing has changed significantly since the old days. Other than Kid Koala, hardly a