MIS MASTER MIKE'S TERROST ATTACK

MIS MASTER MIKE'S TERROST ATTACK "He cuts the music with so much class!"

As if Turntablist extraordinaire, Mix Master Mike of the Invisible Skratch Pikliz, didn't have enough tweak scratching to do, Sonicnet.com reports that Mike has his second full-length album in the works.

The LP, Terrorist, is slated to feature a collaboration with Rage Against the Machine singer Zack de la Rocha, says the Serial Wax Killer. "I met [de la Rocha] when we played a show together [in January 1999], and ... we got heavily involved in hanging out and sharing views on music," Mix Master Mike said on Friday while chillin' backstage at Maritime Hall. Mike was the opening act for dub-reggae legend Lee "Scratch" Perry.

Terrorist, is slated for a September release and will be preceded by the EP Eye of the Cyclops, which is scheduled for a late-February release. "Right now I'm just doing movements, which consist of up to six or eight different beats," he said of the music for the EP. "On this album, I'm trying something different where I'm doing one side a movement and [the other] one a movement, so it's like an orchestra-type deal. It sounds like Johnny-Socko-the-flying-robot music," he said with a grin.

And would any Skratch Piklz endeavor be complete with out a little help from his friends? Mike also said he hoped to reunite with Skratch Piklz pals, DJ Q-Bert and DJ Apollo, on the full-length album. "It's still up in the air, we're just doing our solo things now," he said.

Although his gigs with the Beastie Boys and Lee have increased his profile and resulted in offers to remix artists such as hard-rockers Korn and Methods of Mayhem, Mix Master Mike said he prefers to concentrate on his own music.

"I'm trying to build my own way and build my own type of music," he said, "instead of trying to remix or help other groups out. Because I have this music in me, this different formula of... making the turntables an instrument. Ever since I was a kid I always looked at the turntable as, 'Wow, that's the instrument of the future. That's going to be the future of music and I'm going to change that."

Mix Master Mike released his full-length debut in 1998, the 31-track outer space-themed Anti-Theft Device, which featured such scratch-heavy hip-hop tracks as "Ill Shit" and "Supa Wyde Laces." In November of 1999, Mix Master Mike was awarded the Grand Wizard Theodore Award by the International Turntablist Federation in recognition of his commitment to his art and the culture.

Mix Master Mike said he'll take a break from recording to mount a U.S. DJ tour with beatbox master Rahzel of the hip-hop group the Roots in March. No dates were available for the tour at press time.