This week, we present to you DJ Q-Bert, a local boy and legend of the San Francisco turntable scene.

Since the early 1990s, DJ Q-Bert has been mixing and scratching out songs that have flow and power to them with two full-length albums. He also has a movie, and is a producer; this guy can do it all and do it very well.

Q-Bert also founded the group The Invisibl Skratch Piklz, who put out five full-length albums, all of which mixed funk, scratch and hip hop to come out with a very recognizable sound. They were considered leaders in the northern California turntable scene, and it is easy to see why with Q-Bert’s other Skratch Piklz members’ work on the album “Wave Twisters,” a concept album that tells the tale of a world where people communicate through scratching. Delivering track after track with smooth beats and interesting scratches and brakes, along with inserted vocal samples that sound like they are straight out of a 1950s science fiction movie, all the elements add up to convey the story the album is trying to tell. The entire album has a very funky freestyle feel. The more you listen to it, the more sounds and patterns you find. It seema like something new every time you put it on.

There are several awesome tracks that came off the “Wave Twisters” album, like “Redworm,” a track that makes me think about an intergalactic attack between two spaceships that gets increasingly dramatic as the fight, or the song rather, goes on. Another excellent track is “Electric Eye Beam Abduction.” The track has a very dark aura around it and explains the world that Q-Bert and the rest of the Piklz are creating with this album. There is a slew of other amazing tracks by this group, and you should check them all out, because they are awesome and truly deserve a listening.