RA recently reported that the impressive beat-juggling and live visual group the X-Ecutioners cancelled a recent tour to Australia after the group split up. We can now reveal that Grandmaster Roc Raida, a founding member of The X-Men, and DJ Total Eclipse, member since 1997, will be welcoming virtuoso turntablists DJ Boogie Blind and DJ Precision to The X-ecutioners line-up.
Boogie Blind from Harlem, NY, DJ for Pharoahe Monch and the 2000 Vestax DJ World Champion, is a childhood friend of GM Roc Raida. DJ Precision from Queens, NY, Allies Beatdown World Champion 2002, has previously appeared on tour with The X-ecutioners and is a protégé of Rob Swift. Both are current members of the NYC based DJ crew The Lo Lives. After 7 years as an X-ecutioner, DJ Rob Swift departed the group to concentrate on his solo music projects. The split was amicable apparently but immediate; Rob Swift will not be appearing with The X-ecutioners at any upcoming engagements promoting the group’s new album Revolutions (Summer 2004, Columbia Records).
With its latest members, The X-ecutioners now restructure as a four-man DJ band again for the first time since the departure of Mista Sinista. The group’s last appearance as a quartet was in 2000.