Duncan Beiny (born 1977 in London, England), better known as DJ Yoda, is a hip hop

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who uses samples to create an animated musical style. He is known for several awards and media industry achievements.

Early life and career

After attending Highgate School, he studied

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at the

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from 1995 to 1998. During this period, he began performing at Mojo, a popular Warwick hip hop and

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night at the student's union until he graduated. After he left university, he began releasing underground demo mix-tapes to small music shops. Through the popularity of these tapes, Antidote Records asked him to create an official mixtape, from which ''How to Cut & Paste Mix Tape Vol.1'' was released. He has won a DMC DJ of the Year award in the Scratch DJ category (2001) and was one of six nominees for best

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DJ in the UK Hip-Hop Awards. He has also been nominated by ''

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'' as one of the "Ten DJs To See Before You Die", has released a series of mix-tapes, and has toured the globe with

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and the

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. Yoda released his debut album of original material, entitled ''

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'', on 2 October 2006 on Antidote Records. The album features guest vocalists, including

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, Sway,

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. In addition to releasing his own material, he has also performed scratches on Danger Mouse and Jemini's ''

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''. He has been a regular guest on

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appearing alongside

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. In 2009, he was nominated for a

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. In 2010, he also won the 9th Annual Independent Music Awards for Contemporary Classic Album with the

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. He has been the hip-hop correspondent for ''IDJ magazines'', and also wrote the DJ page for the now defunct ''

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'' magazine, and has been part of the judging panel for the DMC DJ World Finals. DJ Yoda at Royal Air Force Museum Hendon (14172431056)

In 2014 he was commissioned to create ''DJ Yoda Goes to the Sci-Fi Movies'' as part of the

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's ''Sonic Cinema'' event. He presented the first audio-visual radio mix on

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Music. As part of their BBC Music Day, Radio 4 invited Yoda to mash-up the entire station, remixing ''

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'', the

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, and

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. In 2015 he was

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's first choice to record a guest mix on his inaugural

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show for

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, and performed at

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's pop-up Bemusement Park,

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. In 2016 his "

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Mix" racked up more than a quarter of a million plays on

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, culminating in his UK tour of Stranger Things: The Mixtape Live. That same year, his ''A History of Gaming'' premiered at the

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, charting nostalgic video games from the early 1980s onwards. In 2019 he released

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featuring Nubya Garcia, Eva Lazarus, Edo.G,

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, Henry Wu and

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. The album was released on

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Discography

Albums

* ''

'' (Antidote Records) (2006) * ''Chop Suey'' (Get Involved Records) (2012) * ''DJ Yoda Presents Breakfast of Champions'' (Get Involved Records) (2015) * ''Home Cooking'' (Lewis Recordings) (2019) * ''Prom Nite'' (Lewis Recordings) (2022)

EPs

* ''Wheels'' ( Antidote Records) (2006) * ''DJ Yoda & Friends'' (2011)

Singles

* DJ Yoda featuring People Under the Stairs – "Quid Control" (2002) * "Wheels" ( Antidote Records) (2006) * "Playin' Around" (Antidote Records) (2007) * "Charlie Sheen" (Get Involved) (2012) * DJ Yoda featuring Man Like Me – "Idiot" (Get Involved) (2012) * DJ Yoda featuring A Boy Called George – "Happy" (Get Involved) (2012) * "And to the World / Click (Radio Edit)" (Get Involved) (2015) * "Pebble Beach / 2468" (Get Involved) (2015) * DJ Yoda featuring Scroobius Pip – "Sega RIP" (Get Involved) * "Open Your Eye" (feat. Rex Domino & Shlomo) (Get Involved) (2015) * "The Baddest" (Get Involved) (2015)

Mix CDs

* '' How to Cut and Paste Mix Tape Vol.1'' (Antidote Records) (2001) * ''Fisticuts'' (''Spine Magazine'') (2001) * '' How to Cut and Paste Mix Tape Vol.2'' (Antidote Records) (2002) * ''How to Cut & Paste: The 80's Edition'' (Antidote Records) (2003) * ''Dan Greenpeace & DJ Yoda – Unthugged'' (Antidote Records) (2003) * ''Dan Greenpeace & DJ Yoda –

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'' (Boxfresh Records) (2004) * ''Dan Greenpeace & DJ Yoda – Unthugged 2'' (Antidote Record) * ''Hey! Wha' Happened?! (2006)'' * '' FabricLive.39'' ( fabric Records) (April 2008) * ''Dan Greenpeace & DJ Yoda – Jews Paid'' (2008) * ''Dan Greenpeace & DJ Yoda – Jews Paid Too'' (2008) * '' How to Cut & Paste: Country & Western Edition'' (Antidote Records) (2009) * '' How to Cut & Paste: The Thirties Edition'' (2009) * ''How to Cut & Paste: The Asian Edition'' (2013) * ''How to Cut & Paste: The Halloween Edition'' (2014) * ''DJ Yoda presents Breakfast of Champions'' (2015) * ''DJ Yoda presents Breakfast of Champions (Rotty Chimes Remixes)'' (2016) * ''The Stranger Things Mixtape'' (2016) * ''Make Mixtapes Great Again'' (2019) * ''How to Cut and Paste Collection'' (2019)

Vinyl

* ''Piano Breaks (1998)'' * ''Home Cooking (2019)''

Cassette

* ''Jewbonics (1998)'' * ''Dan Greenpeace & DJ Yoda – Jews Paid'' (1999) * ''Dan Greenpeace & DJ Yoda – Jews Paid Too'' (1999)

Compositions

* ''Quid Control 2" vinyl' (Antidote Records) (2002) * ''The Amazing Adventures Of'' (Antidote Records) (2006)

Video game appearances

* ''

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DVDs

* ''DJ Yoda Goes to the Movies'' (promotional DVD, 2006) * ''DJ Yoda Goes to the Movies 2'' (2007)

References

External links

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DJ Yoda at Antidote Records

DJ Yoda interview on ilikemusic.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoda, DJ Living people British hip hop DJs DJs from London Alumni of the University of Warwick People educated at Highgate School Independent Music Awards winners 1977 births