1st off, if you do not own a copy of DJ Shadows "Endtroducing" and you love music... you could be retarded.
When I use to spin I was always as they say "diggin in the creates" spending hours on end driving my bike to music shops and stocking up on records and CDs. I had no idea who DJ shadow was, grabbed the CD and was a fan the 1st time I listened to it.
The man makes music that is extremely bad ass and flips the whole thing and makes music that is absolutely beautiful.
DJ swamp is a mental DJ... mental as in good, mental as beyond sick. I have watched several of his sets when he toured with Beck and he was years beyond most turntablists. I find a lot of turntablist sound the same or take a routine already done and do it over and throw a little bit of a twist on it. Like KRS-1 said, you got to have style and learn to be original... Swamp got that!