For almost 30 years, the smooth beats of Mr Scruff, aka Andrew Carthy, have been a colourful conglomeration of samples from funk, jazz, hip-hop and countless varieties of electronic music. Above all, however, they are more than a simple collage of what has gone before; they are creatively arranged feel-good music, as on the modern classic »Ninja Tuna«, which was reissued on vinyl for the first time 15 years after its release at the end of March. He finds the records for his samples in Manchester, whose record shops he visits regularly.
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Luckily for us, he doesn’t leave everything he finds in dusty record boxes to rot on the shelf, but regularly plays the treasures he finds. On 10 May 2024, for example, he will visit Berlin‘s Gretchen and, as he often does, play exactly six hours of music. Everything that inspires him, from sizzling soul to rap to bossa nova, will end up on the turntable. And because even Mr Scruff is getting on in years, his set will start at 8pm.
