Get Your Fix: The Doctor's Orders Come To Room One.

After their riotous and vibe-fuelled 'J Dilla Changed My Life' charity event on Sunday (truly had to be seen to be believed - amazing), The Doctor's Orders family are coming to take over our Room One this week, equipped with Dilated Peoples' DJ Babu. We stopped for a moment with Spin and his homies to reflect and look forward - getting the good word from Babu, Brad Baloo from The Nextmen, Mr Thing and The Last Skeptik. Roll on Friday...see  y'all on the floor.

What was your biggest tune of 2009?
Spin Doctor: Man, it is impossible to pick out just one. I think it has been a great year for Hip-Hop.
Babu: Jay Electronica 'Exhibit A.'
Brad (The Nextmen): MJ Cole - 'Sincere (Nero Mix).'
Mr Thing: For me it has to be Jay Electronica's 'Exhibit C.' That record hurt me.
The Last Skeptik: It dropped right at the tail end of 09, but Jay Electronica’s ‘Exhibit C’ was something special.

What was your favourite show of 2009?
Spin Doctor: I always love the Dilla tribute parties but the stand out was my birthday party outside the back of Cargo. Felt like beach party in the middle of London.
Babu: Nitelife NYC wit the Beatjunkies or The Roxy LA wit Dilated Peoples
Brad (The Nextmen): The Big Chill Festival or Rhythm and Vines Festival, Gisborne, NZ
Mr Thing - Spin Doctor's birthday party outside cargo was hilarious! Great weather, great tunes and good friends!
The Last Skeptik - Favourite show that I saw: Q Tip absolutely smacked it at Wireless. Favourite gig I played a definately Day Zero at Sziget festival in Budapest to 70,000 people with the Love Music Hate Racism band.

Did you make any New Year's resolutions?
Spin Doctor: No resolutions as such but I do always try and work harder each year to make more things happen.
Ty: No new year's resolutions, I don't believe in doing them.
Babu: I decided to quit new year's resolutions.
Brad (The Nextmen): To stop eating and drinking so much. Lasted about 8 seconds...
Mr Thing: To weed some of the crap out of my record collection to make room for more goodness.
The Last Skeptik:To pick up more bad habits, and re-start smoking after I’d quit. I’ve successfully eaten a bit worse, and lessened my exercise, so it’s going well.

What are you excited about in 2010?
Spin Doctor: I am genuinely excited about The Doctor's Orders move to fabric and the opportunities that are going to open up.
Ty: I'm excited about my new album being heard and enjoyed this year.
Babu: My production work, Duck Season 3.5, The Beat Tape Vol 2, Evidence "Cat's & Dogs" Rakaa Iriscience "Corown of Thorns."
Brad (The Nextmen): The World Cup and my son starting school.
Mr Thing: Buying more records to put on Strange Games and Mr Thing Vol.3.
The Last Skeptik: New albums from Skitz, Jehst, Stig, a couple of new projects from me, loads of the dope shows that the homey Spin Doctor is gonna put on, finishing The Sopranos, the new season of Lost, travelling with music, eating a ton of cheese. The usual stuff.

What is your favourite memory of The Doctor's Orders, or fabric?
Spin Doctor: There are too many specific memories but there are a couple of stand outs. Meeting the love of my life being one, Kool Herc turning up just to party was cool but also I am grateful to have had the chance to meet and work with so many of my heroes.
Ty: My favourite memory of fabric is watching the Scratch Perverts tear it up down and the Doctor's Orders' Dilla tributes shows are always good stuff.
Babu: Just being so far from LA and feeling at home playing whatever the fuck I wanted and the people loving it!
Brad (The Nextmen): A-Trak breaking my crossfader...
Mr Thing: The Doctor's Orders' 4th birthday with Guilty Simpson, Phat Kat & Big Tone was crazy. I was so excited to spin that night.
The Last Skeptik: Too many great Doctor’s Orders memories. From smashing a set at Herbal with D12 and Royce in the crowd, to watching Jehst smash it to a packed house. It’s always rammed at the parties.

If not working in music what do you think you would be doing?
Spin Doctor: I dread to think. I used to do shop security and was a bicycle courier for a minute, but I would like to say I would be a journalist of some sort.
Ty: If I wasn't working in music, I would be doing a boring job and just paying the bills or wrestling!!
Babu: I would be eiter a chef or a film director or neuro-surgeon or a clown make-up artist or a profesional table tennis player.
Brad (The Nextmen): Probably teaching kids...that, or jewel thief...
Mr Thing: Trying to convince people that records are still ok.
The Last Skeptik: Being a perpetual student, getting a masters or something. Or for my non-serious answer (sorry Spin Doctor), I’d be running some kind of Due South Convention.

Which other act on the line up are you particularly looking forward to and why?
Spin Doctor: Seriously everyone. It is the joy of booking the line ups, I get to pick people I like and to hear.
Ty: I am looking forward to watching Babu do his stuff.
Babu: I always enjoying and hanging with and hearing my man Spin Doctor.
Brad (The Nextmen): DJ Babu is one of the best DJs I've seen perform. He never falls short.
Mr Thing: Babu, as he is one of my favourite DJs. Always on point.
The Last Skeptik: BABU! Been a Dilated fan from buying ‘The Platform’ 12” from Bongo’s way back when.