Local hip hop luminaries, Terntable Jediz, are gaining momentum less than a year after re-forming.

Founding member DJ Sheep checks in from Tokyo, where’s he’s currently on the hunt for all kinds of rare vinyl.

Thirteen years strong for the Jediz; does it feel like a lifetime ago that Krypton and you started the crew outta Capalaba?

Yeah, it feels like a lifetime ago, buying my first set of decks after meeting Krypton (f/k/a as Karma) circa 1998. Those days at Capalaba watching VHS tapes of battles and mail ordering inspiration information will never be beaten. Kids got it easy these days with the digital age.

The crew reformed last year with the new inclusion of Prop Greg, a young gun you've been mentoring; it must be a pleasure to come across a young-un not caught up in the digital age?

We kinda disbanded for a while there… it made no sense to stay together, and we had no direction. Finatik is living in Miami, I was travelling the world hustlin' records and doing shows. However, after we found Prop Greg, we had a bit more direction and decided to bring real skills back as a turntablist crew. Greg got put through the O.G. training routine developed by Damage and I, with the guidance of our lost soldier, DJ Bribe; the classic training, analogue style. He's come a long way, and we're proud to have a new dude rep locally.

You're on the bill for the upcoming Qbert Brisbane show, and personally invited by the man himself... you guys go way back right? Damage and you had an eight-hour scratch session with him in 2000, right?

Oh wow? Qbert invited me to DJ, he's done that a few times now… I didn't know. I first met Qbert in 1996 when I toured him around Australia, and subsequently went to his house to scratch a few years later. In 2000, Damage visited when I was living in San Francisco and we had a long enduring eight-hour scratch session on the Octagon with fellow tablist, DJ Spair. I wish we filmed that. What started off as a very nervous session for us, became the blueprint for years to come...

Terntable Jediz support Qbert at Mustang Bar Sunday February 26.