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2 Times World Champion, DJ Woody is one of the UK’s most influential scratch DJ's. Known for his innovations, he helped design the Worlds first ever musical turntable instrument (Vestax Controller One) and is famed as a prolific pioneer of new scratch techniques. His musical approach to the turntable and has led to recordings for labels including NinjaTunes, BBE, Universal, and Tokyo Dawn with artists as diverse as UK rap legends Blade and Gunshot to DJ Yoda and Jamie Cullum.
As a performer highlights include being the tour DJ for Grammy winning hip hop star Mala Rodriguez, support DJ for Hacienda Classical, writing scratch music for a 25 piece big band jazz orchestra, being a band member of DJ Vadim’s Russian Percussian and One Self and taking his groundbreaking audio-visual story telling to the Edinburgh Festival in his collaboration with acclaimed UK beatboxer/rap per/actor Testament. His DJ sets have taken him around the World to over 50 countries, performing every where from The Nokia Theatre in Time Square New York to the Royal Albert Hall in London. An avid lover of vinyl, Woody is a member of the World renowned DJ crew ’45 Live’ alongside the likes of DJ Format, Mr Thing, DJ Food (Ninjatune), Andy Smith (Portishead), Ollie Teeba (Herbaliser) and Jon More (Coldcut).
As a producer Woody released his debut solo LP 'The Point Of Contact’ in 2016, featuring some of the UK's finest musical talent including Christian Madden (Liam Gallagher), Carl Sharrocks (808 State), Matthew Halsall (Gondwana Records) and Nick Blacka (Gogo Penguin). A year later in collaboration with Bristolian DJ and producer Boca 45, he released the album ‘Carousel’ under the BocaWoody moniker, recieving radio support from Craig Charles, Huey Morgan and Steve Lamacq and was licensed for US hit comedy ‘The Last OG’ and HBO’s 2023 Scooby-Doo spin off ‘Velma’.
2025 marks the 20th year of Woody’s record label Woodwurk Records and with a full release schedule, DJ tours and some interesting curveball collaborations planned, it promises to be another eventful year!
