Talk:DJ Q-bert

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Stop hating who ever put that gay word on there.

[edit] How is wave twisters NOT a full scratch album?

I hear scratching on every track!

A. At the time it was released, Wave Twisters was generally considered a "full scratch album" as scratching does play a heavy role in every track. However, with the release of D-Style's "Phantasmagoria" the meaning of "full scratch" became a bit more specified. "Wave Twisters" makes use of produced (unscratched) beats in many of the tracks with scratching serving as the "lead vocal", whereas the entirety of "Phantasmagoria" is scratched. - Renn

I think it's misleading to refer to it as being composed mainly by samplers, much of the sound is composed by 4 DJs, a la the old scratchpiklz. It could be pointed out, but precautions should be taken to keep it from sounding like a DJ Shadow or Automator album. Also, this is nitpicky but I don't think it's necessary to say samplers AND beat machines, they probably just used the samplers to emulate beat machines. --Patrik

[edit] Capitalization

I think Q-Bert should be spelled with a capital B. This seems to be the way he prefers it. Badagnani 03:32, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

• I notice that IMDB calls him "DJ Q-Bert", although going to his own site refers to him as "DJ Qbert". Has his spelling changed over time? Also, Amazon.com has things like DJ Qbert's Wave Twisters by DJ Q-Bert, so obviously even they're a little confused. (side-note: I added a redirect from "DJ Q-Bert" to "DJ Q-bert".. I noticed a refering page had a broken link, due to capitlization differences)) --JamesLikesBeer 18:18, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I vote for DJ Qbert. Darth Katana X 06:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

While I doubt that it matters to him much either way, and he may indeed change it haphazardly, The Album "wave twisters" refers to him as "DJ QBert" while he normally tags his name "Qbert". Additionally I've never seen him use the hyphenated Q-bert. - Renn