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Mr. Scruff (real name Andy Carthy) is a British DJ, electronic musician and artist. He is a native of Stockport, near Manchester, United Kingdom, and studied Fine Art at the Sheffield College of Art.

Carthy’s DJ name was inspired by his scruffy facial hair, as well as his trademark loose-lined drawing style. He has been DJing since 1994, at first in and around Manchester then nationwide in the United Kingdom. He is known for DJing in marathon sets (often exceeding six hours), his eclectic musical taste, his love of a “nice cup of tea” and the quirky home-produced visuals and animations that are projected on large screens during his gigs.

His debut album, Mr. Scruff, was released on the small Manchester based label Paradise Records. He soon moved to the larger Ninja Tune label, and subsequently released the albums Keep It Unreal and Trouser Jazz. His most notable hit “

Get a Move On” is built around “Bird’s Lament (In memory of Charlie Parker)” , and has been used in several commercials ranging from Lincoln and Volvo automobiles to France Télécom and GEICO insurance. All of his albums contain tracks about fish, whales and other sea-life, which cut up recordings of voiceovers from children’s stories and nature documentaries to create surreal and silly stories. His album artwork and music videos are noted for their distinctive cartoony style; many of the cartoons are drawn by Scruff himself.

In late 2004 Mr Scruff released the first of what is intended to be a series of 4, DJ-mixed compilation CDs, called Keep It Solid Steel.

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1	Get a Move On	2,097
2	Kalimba	1,281
3	Spandex Man	790
4	So Long	787
5	Midnight Feast	688
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7	Chipmunk	567
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Djmook wrote:
yesterday evening

if u peeps love the scruff as much as i do then have an earload of golden pernicious, inspired by the legend of scruffage!

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hurricane_mario wrote:
Saturday evening

Oh man. That just happened. I was blasting this and hundreds of birds came to my window, and all jumped when the song transitioned. Had to put it on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O07lzQ-undk

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hurricane_mario wrote:
Saturday evening

win 7, haha [2] This song is great!

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nih_icky wrote:
last week

win 7, haha

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Jager-Jen wrote:
last week

Love him! Saw him in Belfast on Saturday and it was AMAZING, danced non stop for 5 hours :D

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AScoopOfSoup wrote:
last month

Ooo- thanks for the tunes Mr. Scruff!

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gybrush_ wrote:
last month

win7 ,they always have good samples

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lakretino wrote:
last month

"Sweet Smoke" :-)

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pogopatterson wrote:
last month

Hope you are earning lots of cash from the Chill out Compilation CD I am listening to, Mr. Scruff. Because not only is this very entertaining and you deserve a reward but you clearly need to buy some personal grooming gear.

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Davpronk wrote:
last month

I love his music!!!!

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Armando2402 wrote:
last month

Music takes me up!! the best

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Kebb0 wrote:
last month

lol at fish and all his songs xD they r wierd :P

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matze12345 wrote:
December 2009

Vibrate , Sweet Smoke and Shrimp best! :D

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segmenasgamins wrote:
December 2009

Check this out  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE

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snapandjack wrote:
December 2009

the question is, how did you only know cause windows 7?

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rodanside wrote:
December 2009

* Whalefish, whalefish, whalefish *

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kingmetalacid wrote:
December 2009

I just know 'cause Windows 7[2]

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eastbaythunder wrote:
December 2009

not bad

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shekhovcov wrote:
December 2009

очень похоже на Parov Stelar

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NinjaTune000 wrote:
December 2009

"Ninja Tune 2009" Spotify Playlist http://open.spotify.com/user/ninja-tune/playlist/00fIzug77TJKrU1J10jSsC

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