Mr. Scruff

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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 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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Top Tracks

1	Get a Move On full track	2,345
2	So Long full track	921
3	Fish full track	802
4	Spandex Man full track	741
5	Chipmunk full track	702
6	Shrimp full track	677
7	Beyond full track	624
8	Midnight Feast full track	623
9	Test The Sound	608
10	Hairy Bumpercress	579
11	Cheeky full track	557
12	Whiplash	553
13	Here We Go full track	478
14	Donkey Ride	473
15	Get On Down	470

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GoonGumpa wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Whoa! New album!

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automatpisstool wrote:
Saturday morning

Funky porridge!

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jonaschrist wrote:
Wednesday evening

All hail the Ninja Tuna!

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derinsu wrote:
Wednesday evening

just impressed by new album. he is awesome.

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nordquist wrote:
Wednesday morning

Keep movin' Keep movin' You gotta keep movin' Keep movin' You gotta keep movin' Keep movin' Keep movin' forward.... before you get left behind!

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Mochilla311 wrote:
8 days ago

I'm bout to leave the US just to see him live

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mikecurrie1977 wrote:
last month

The new album is excellent - nice one!!!!

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IUp_in_smokeI wrote:
last month

Grooovy fishes in my ears! :D Next time i'll go to restaurant i ask for NINJA TUNA!

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JamesHeather wrote:
last month

Six years after the release of Trouser Jazz today sees the triumphant return of the world champion of fish-related cheekiness! Mr Scruff presents his best album yet, NINJA TUNA, featuring Roots Manuva, Quantic, Alice Russell and others. The Mancunion maestro has kept his album a secret from nearly everyone until now, but now you know its coming you don't need to wait until some achingly distant date in the future, you can download the album from midday TODAY from the Ninja Tune Shop or mrscruff.com or Bleep or iTunes (tomorrow) etc..... Hooray!!!! In two weeks (October 6th) fresh Ninja Tuna CDs will be available in all good record shops in the UK (and soon after around the world), alongside a limited edition beautiful squidgy fish-shaped rubber 2 gigabyte Ninja Tuna USB stick. Mr Scruff is having a whopping great launch party at Matter on Nov 7th, tickets on sale soon.

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Skyeez wrote:
last month

great!!!

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agarin wrote:
last month

cool

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weezer-man wrote:
last month

You make such amazing music

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piparkook wrote:
last month

vote for images please. thanks.

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Repcred wrote:
last month

Any news on a new album?

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hannahbearj5 wrote:
August 2008

it's roots manuva singin on jusjus

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Tezza_Larks wrote:
August 2008

as if this guys white, i'm just listening to Jusjus...No way

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tree_head wrote:
August 2008

thats a prize winning marrow of a bassline

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originallegend wrote:
August 2008

I say Algernon, this Mr Scruff fellow is most certainly a top spinner of "dem funky tunes" eh what?

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Yulemir wrote:
August 2008

Be honoured if you have a listen http://www.last.fm/music/Yul+Emir kind regards Yul

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Tetrapack91 wrote:
August 2008

unbelievably good to chill

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