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Mr. Scruff
Distilling the frantic thunder of breakbeat electro into a mellow, soul-jazz
funk strut, Mr. Scruff inflects trip-hop grooves with an array of musical
influences and an eccentric sense of fun. Starting out DJ-ing in bars around
Manchester in the early 1990s, he was given his first break when local label
Rob's Records released his early 12" singles and helped him score gigs at
Manumission in Ibiza. Signing with the Ninja Tune dance label in 1998, Scruff
became renowned for mixing together scratchy reggae classics, lost jazz oddities
and thrift shop soul records into an eclectic si...
