5th Platoon

The 5th Platoon is a DJ crew consisting of Neil Armstrong, Vinroc, I-Emerge, Rholi Rho, Daddy Dog, Kuttin Kandi, and Do Boy. If you don't know, read more about them here. This tape is a clip from the group's appearance on a show I don't know much about called 'Over Your head radio' on WSOU 89.5 (Seton Hall University, East Orange New Jersey), I think they promoted this on a flier so I tuned in. You've got 4 members of the group here doing some dope beat juggling and scratching routines...

1)Neil Armstrong
2)Kuttin Kandi
3)Daddy Dog
4)Rholi Rho


-the tracks that follow their sets (Slick Rick, Beatnuts, DITC) are from a Stretch and Bobbito XL show I had on the same tape.

-Apparently DJ Neil Armstrong will be Jay-Z's official tour DJ on the 'Heat of The City' tour. Congrats to Neil for the accomplishment, read more about this here.

I used to see the 5th platoon perform at the open table events and also parties thrown for the 'Battle Sounds' turntablism documentary film. I saw a screening of this film at one of the parties but never heard of its official release. Looking on the Battle Sounds website I see that they have released a 'Whitey cut' for the film, but the link to purchase has expired. Does anyone out there own this documentary? For those who don't know this was a DJ Documentary that was made years before the movie 'Scratch' came out. I remember in the film the dude who made it (John Carluccio) talked about this 'scratching sheet music', musical transcriptions for some of the different scratches. You can see/download these transcriptions here.