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quoted 3 lines While channelhopping last night, we chanced upon an MTV

>While channelhopping last night, we chanced upon an MTV >broadcast of a Beastie Boys gig in Scotland this year - MixMaster >Mike is breathtakingly adept at his art!

Just think what the invisibl skratch piklz must be like live: 5 of them insanely skilled like that all at once! ShortKut, MMMike, Q-bert, Yoga Frog, and uhm, another.

quoted 2 lines Never heard anything by

>Never heard anything by >him as far as his own releases go - are they all pretty scratchy?

Actually, i was disappointed with MMMike's album when I first got it cos it wasn't scratchy enough for me. I called it 'electro' cos it had those hard old-school beats, but i doubt its anything like what any of this list's electro is. I like the album but ymmv. Looking for scratchier stuff? Check MMMike's "valuemeal combo" 12" with the 15-minute "atmosfear" Invisibl Skratch piklz "Vs da Klamz uv deth" 12" DJ Q-bert "Wave Twisters" album _________________________________ Adam Roesch / roesch@augsburg.edu Augsburg College / Minneapolis / MN / USA Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ "The only disease we need in our blood is love" TRICKY

The problem with most turntable records is that the artists are DJs, not producers, so the beats they scratch over are usually kinda week. MMM is one of the few who does have quirky production skills...on "Anti-Theft Device" he uses that alien sound from the movie "Contact" and all kinds of weird stuff. I think his album is worth it, though it got lots of mixed reviews. Other good producer/DJs are Disk and Faust, both on Bomb Records (I think). Q-bert's pretty good too... Irene McC wrote:

quoted 9 lines While channelhopping last night, we chanced upon an MTV

> While channelhopping last night, we chanced upon an MTV > broadcast of a Beastie Boys gig in Scotland this year - MixMaster > Mike is breathtakingly adept at his art! Never heard anything by > him as far as his own releases go - are they all pretty scratchy? > Or what? To me, "turntablism" is more of a live event than sit- > home-and-listen. Does it work? > > I > *

quoted 2 lines Other good producer/DJs are Disk and Faust, both on

>Other good producer/DJs are Disk and Faust, both on >Bomb Records (I think). Q-bert's pretty good too...

shit, i forgot about Faust and Disk. (Label is Bomb Hip Hop) Faust's is more turntable wizardy, like a steve vai of vinyl, yet fun to listen to. I hardly listen to his album though cos it was mastered as one single track. Disk's is great, moody, dark, messed up. Can i say "post-turntablism"? "'Endtroducing...' on very hard drugs"? He's less into showing off great skill and more into just messing with the listener's head. Slow, thick at times. Also prob the first turntablist to bring a heavy metal element to his album by actually employing buckethead. Fun, crazy album. _________________________________ Adam Roesch / roesch@augsburg.edu Augsburg College / Minneapolis / MN / USA Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ "The only disease we need in our blood is love" TRICKY

quoted 5 lines Disk's is great, moody, dark, messed up. Can i say "post-turntablism"?

>Disk's is great, moody, dark, messed up. Can i say "post-turntablism"? >"'Endtroducing...' on very hard drugs"? He's less into showing off great >skill and more into just messing with the listener's head. Slow, thick at >times. Also prob the first turntablist to bring a heavy metal element to >his album by actually employing buckethead. Fun, crazy album.

disk is great, he's really flowered since he left the piklz. for the latest in "we have tons of skills but don't resort to the kitchen sink" department, the "el stew" ep on om records is basically an electro 10" by giant robot II (disk, brain, buckethead, and someone else i can't remember because i'm at work). eric

On Tue, 4 May 1999, eric hill wrote:

quoted 11 lines Disk's is great, moody, dark, messed up. Can i say "post-turntablism"?

> >Disk's is great, moody, dark, messed up. Can i say "post-turntablism"? > >"'Endtroducing...' on very hard drugs"? He's less into showing off great > >skill and more into just messing with the listener's head. Slow, thick at > >times. Also prob the first turntablist to bring a heavy metal element to > >his album by actually employing buckethead. Fun, crazy album. > > disk is great, he's really flowered since he left the piklz. for the > latest in "we have tons of skills but don't resort to the kitchen sink" > department, the "el stew" ep on om records is basically an electro 10" by > giant robot II (disk, brain, buckethead, and someone else i can't remember > because i'm at work).

hey, umm, opinion time: i don't think buckethead is a good guitarist at all. i don't know whta it is about him, i think i just don't like his style, but i don't really hear any skill in what he does. am i missing something? * #### a disturbance in a system. #### laerm. @voicenet.com ##:# some roads are only seen at night/ghost roads - nothing but neon signs but some nights the neon gas gets free/and turns into walking dead like me icq:5562209

quoted 4 lines hey, umm, opinion time: i don't think buckethead is a good guitarist at

>hey, umm, opinion time: i don't think buckethead is a good guitarist at >all. i don't know whta it is about him, i think i just don't like his >style, but i don't really hear any skill in what he does. am i missing >something?

it sounds like it just doesn't make sense to you. no big whoop, there's lots of stuff that many people like where i just don't understand the appeal. eric

quoted 7 lines Disk's is great, moody, dark, messed up. Can i say "post-turntablism"?

>>Disk's is great, moody, dark, messed up. Can i say "post-turntablism"? >>"'Endtroducing...' on very hard drugs"? He's less into showing off great >>skill and more into just messing with the listener's head. Slow, thick at >>times. Also prob the first turntablist to bring a heavy metal element to >>his album by actually employing buckethead. Fun, crazy album. > >disk is great, he's really flowered since he left the piklz.

Got to add my support for disk's album - Phonosycograph. Really inventive stuff, best turntablist album I've heard. He concentrates on the music, and is not just getting off on his own skills. For more straight ahead hip hop with turntablizm included I like the X-Ecutioners from NY, and the Bay Area's Peanut Butter Wolf. CheersAndrewC.

hi all, since we're on the subject of turntablism, should mention i bought an Invisbl Scratch Piklz video, 2 hours worth of 'Turntable TV', when I was in New York a couple of weeks ago. There's some neat scratching, and they're technically brilliant - Q-Bert stands out and there's an especially good session in ISP HQ with him and the ridiculously young A-Trak scratching stupendously. Mixmaster Mike also makes an appearance and, yeah, the samples and methods he uses to scratch with are just that bit more interesting than the others - all that technique can get really boring to listen to. But actually, the best thing about the video are a number of really stoopid comedy sketches done by the ISP guys - there's an interview with 'Darth Fader' (ok, some guy in a cheap Darth Vader mask), and Q-Bert (I think) in a stupid outfit pretending to be Japanese and teaching you how to 'Sklatch'. Well, I laughed anyhow :) No doubt more details about all this stuff on http://www.skratchpiklz.com , if I spelt that right :) regards, h0l. ps - I guess this is still 'idm', heh.. oh, I was at the great new venue in London, the Scala cinema in Kings Cross, Friday, and saw Freddy Fresh DJ - highly recommended, very much breakbeat surfguitar rocknroll madness :) And Tom Middleton of Global Communication was DJ-ing house there as well.. atleast i _think_ it was him :) I find all their changes of musical direction a bit mystifying but I respect them for it..

I'm surprised no one brought this up, since he was chatted about on here last week, but he played last Thursday in London, at one of the (AFAIK excellent) Scratch nights at La Scala. He was quite unbelievably good. I've tended to dismiss turntablism as just silly shows to illustrate the performer's technical virtuosity, but MMM was definitely heaps of fun, his beats ruled, and the results of whatever he was upto sounded great. I have to admit that he had me laughing out loud near the start of his set, because he seemed so talented as to be absurd. Sadly, the biggest applause of the night actually went to the Jungle Bros when they dropped that jump-up version of 'Jungle Brother'. Nads. It was a slightly alienating moment as the rest of the room went ballistic to music I hate and so I naturally fled. Michael (Is it a faux pas to quote the Smiths while reviewing hiphop? :-) Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com