“I never skated,” admitted DJ Mike Relm, the resident audio and video technician for this year's Boom Boom Huckjam tour. “I was a hardcore DJ nerd. Once I got turntables, I've had blinders on since.”

Sporting his trademark horned-rimmed glasses along with the old school skinny tie and Men in Black/Reservoir Dogs black suit, the Bay Area DJ continues to redefine the boundaries of scratch DJing. With a playful party vibe, the mix master takes scratching to the next dimension: video.

Juggling pop culture clips from films like “Pulp Fiction” and “Office Space,” quirky obscurities like “Pee-wee's Playhouse” theme and old Lucha Libre videos, random kitsch from the likes of “Napoleon Dynamite” and forgotten '80s groups like The Outfield, Relm literally scratches video.

Here's how it goes down at a Mike Relm show: While the DJ scratches traditional turntables, DVD and CDs, a large screen shows synced images bouncing to and fro: everything from Bjork hopping about in her video “Human Behavior” and the “Peanuts” characters dancing to the sounds of Vince Guaraldi's classic soundtrack to mash-ups of Led Zeppelin's “Immigrant Song” and Jimi Hendrix's “Fire.”

His original style has led to gigs with Lyrics Born, Money Mark, Gift of Gab, Del tha Funkee Homosapien and most recently the Blue Man Group, and solo shows at high-profile music fests like Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Bonnaroo.

For Relm, the technique is secondary to keeping the party vibe to his shows: “I did parties for so long that it was always in what I did. But I always scratched. That's for sure what I do. I've seen guys that can scratch better than most of the top-notch DJs. But if you don't have the instinct of playing a party or a show, then it really doesn't sound like much. It comes out sounding technical.

“You have to apply (technique) to entertainment, which is what this is,” continued Relm, speaking from a recent Huckjam tour stop in St. Louis last week. “It's like in skating: You can do all the technical tricks, but if you can't present it as a show, then you're just doing it for yourself.”

Relm adds a live element to the show lacking in year's past, according to tour founder Tony Hawk.

“Once we lost live bands in our show, we basically just had a soundtrack every year,” Hawk said. “That's fine, but I really like the element where he could mix stuff on the fly and change up the show right in the middle of it.

“In the past (when someone took a fall during a run), the music just stopped and we had to wait and figure out what we're going to do next, and now Mike really keeps the flow going.”

Relm is also scheduled for a local solo show Oct. 23 at The Casbah, ($12, casbahmusic.com).

– CHRIS NIXON