DJ Vinroc’s ‘Recon-Struction’ Mixtape
DJ Vinroc was one of my favourite DJs in the late nineties and the turn of the century so I was stoked yesterday when I found that TSS did a post about Vinroc’s classic mixtape from ‘97 ‘Recon-Struction’. For those that don’t know Vinroc was the ITF world champion two years in a row in ‘97 and ‘98, he’s a member of the 5th Platoon that included Roli Rho, DJ Daddy Dog (check for his Tribe Vibes mixtape) and one of my favourite mixtape DJs of recent time Neil Armstrong, he also later formed Triple Threat with Apollo and Shortkut (both originally ISP members) who had a well deserved reputation for tearing up parties. He was also one of the first DJs that I could remember from the east coast that could scratch on par with his west coast counterparts who were running shit at the time, thus he was the only DJ featured on Q-Bert’s ‘Wave Twisters’ album that wasn’t an ISP member.
Back to the mixtape anyway, Recon-Struction was made when the turntablist culture, which was big at the time, influenced how mixtapes were made, it was all about a DJs skill at selecting, mixing, blending, juggling and scratching (none of that yelling over a rusty MP3 shit that passes for a mixtape these days). Head over to TSS to peep Vinroc’s interview where he discusses making Recon-Struction and provides a download link 
It was DJs and mixtapes like Vinroc that influenced the DJ that I later became. You’ve probably all heard the mixtape me and Truent recently made for Dave by now… well I’m gonna be extra generous and dig in my vaults to bring you my favourite mixtape production, I did a 20 minute segment on DJ Sirvere’s ‘Sirvere Punishment 3′ from a few years ago that I was really proud of that I wanna share with ya. I’ve just gotta find where I put the CD, LOL, I’ve got a master copy of it stashed away somewhere haha, stay tuned…