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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 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.

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>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