DJ LETHAL SKILLZ

DJ Lethal Skillz · Performance Archive. DJ · PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE.

THE CRAFT LIVES AROUND THE DECKS. Turntablism is more than what happens between the needles and the faders. It is a language built in rooms full of people: DJs, skratchers, students, friends and strangers, passing technique from one set of hands to another. From Beirut to Kuala Lumpur, the practice has always been about gathering: sharing records, trading cuts, building sessions, creating spaces to learn, and keeping the culture moving forward. This is the community around the instrument.

From the culture to the room. Sometimes the work moves from the decks to the conversation. Decades inside the culture, asked to tell its story: the history of Lebanese and Arab hip-hop, its identity, and what it means in different rooms.

Beats, scratches, records and collaborations built across borders. A distinctive turntable language brought into records, collaborations and commissions.

A LIFE INSIDE THE CULTURE. Photographs, places and documents from a career lived inside hip-hop: the people who built it, the rooms where it happened, the work that came out of it. Names are part of the archive. Every important figure in these frames is identified.