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quoted 7 lines From: alalan@PO-Box.McGill.CA

>From: alalan@PO-Box.McGill.CA > >> First off, he's just a kid...and a damn nice one at that, not once ounce >> of attitude. He just loves to get up there and fuck shit up. >> >now i don't know how old he really is, but i'm pretty sure he's not >just a "kid".

He's 22 - counts as a "kid" in my book. And how old are those coldcut guys? Talk about geezers! Anybody know what was up with that one record he spun with all the happy face stickers on the outer track? Does the needle track across those and cause the sound to drop out or was it just some goofy thing there just for looks? My only complaint about this tour is he played a LOT of the same records as the last time the Ninjas swung through town. It's not like he's some band that doesn't have new material or is playing to DAT and can't change his set up.

quoted 5 lines "I'm a tree that grows hearts

> "I'm a tree that grows hearts > One for each that you take... > You're the ground that i feed on > I'm the branch that you break..." > Bjork

Your posts were much more IDM when you didn't have Bjork singing on them, you pathetic sell-out.

quoted 4 lines Anybody know what was up with that one record he spun with

> Anybody know what was up with that one record he spun with > all the happy face stickers on the outer track? Does the > needle track across those and cause the sound to drop out > or was it just some goofy thing there just for looks?

From what I understand about Kid Koala he doesn't use headphones during any of his sets [is this true?] and that he also cues the records up by just having a piece of tape on the starting groove and shebam drops it right into the part of the cut that he wants to scratch or whatever. My guess is that the happy face sticker was just a cute cuemarker of some sort. /peter

At 11:56 AM -0800 11/6/97, Peter Bense wrote:

quoted 5 lines Anybody know what was up with that one record he spun with

>> Anybody know what was up with that one record he spun with >> all the happy face stickers on the outer track? Does the >> needle track across those and cause the sound to drop out >> or was it just some goofy thing there just for looks? >

From what I understand about Kid Koala he doesn't use headphones

quoted 8 lines during any of his sets [is this true?] and that he also cues the

>during any of his sets [is this true?] and that he also cues the >records up by just having a piece of tape on the starting groove >and shebam drops it right into the part of the cut that he wants >to scratch or whatever. My guess is that the happy face sticker >was just a cute cuemarker of some sort. > > >/peter

Yep, standard hip-hop battle DJ style. No time to find a beat by listening for it... Joe

quoted 12 lines Anybody know what was up with that one record he spun with

> > Anybody know what was up with that one record he spun with > > all the happy face stickers on the outer track? Does the > > needle track across those and cause the sound to drop out > > or was it just some goofy thing there just for looks? > > From what I understand about Kid Koala he doesn't use headphones > during any of his sets [is this true?] and that he also cues the > records up by just having a piece of tape on the starting groove > and shebam drops it right into the part of the cut that he wants > to scratch or whatever. My guess is that the happy face sticker > was just a cute cuemarker of some sort. >

When he played here for the Ninja Tune show, he did not have headphones on. He Beatmatched flawless. No idea how he pulled that one off. freshie Paranoia: The choice of a Tech Generation http://silly.com/~tang

Paul Moore wrote:

quoted 2 lines He's 22 - counts as a "kid" in my book. And how old

> He's 22 - counts as a "kid" in my book. And how old > are those coldcut guys? Talk about geezers!

22? Damn, he doesn't look a day over 17! And yeah, Kev and Pc look about my age (late 20's) and the coldcut guys gotta be at least half as old as steve hillage (who must be at least 90 by now). :-P

quoted 4 lines Anybody know what was up with that one record he spun with

> Anybody know what was up with that one record he spun with > all the happy face stickers on the outer track? Does the > needle track across those and cause the sound to drop out > or was it just some goofy thing there just for looks?

I was checking that one out too...I think I've seen that record around before and don't think they're stickers...It's in the pressing. This time around, he did a solo with two copies. Pretty wicked shit! peace out, brock. np: nothing, because I'm out the door...

quoted 2 lines Yep, standard hip-hop battle DJ style. No time to find a beat by listening

>Yep, standard hip-hop battle DJ style. No time to find a beat by listening >for it...

Plus, you can do nifty things with tape like get a bass loop going by making the record skip over the tape and get back into the same groove. Then you can play bass by messing with the speed controls. The best part of Battle Sounds was the explanations of all the different styles of scratches and stuff. Plus Q-Bert explaining how he's "Just a big biter" of everybody else's tricks. Oh, and the guy who won competitions because he was able to play "Mary has a little Lamb" with the pitch control. He then graduated to Led Zep's Ironman—now that's *quality* djing ;-). Or the guy who won DMC by doing a handspin on the turntable... Forget it-just see the damn movie. Any info on availability to the general public?

KaisrSolze wrote:

quoted 2 lines He then graduated to Led Zep's

> He then graduated to Led Zep's > Ironman—

Are you joking? -mc

At 08:52 PM 11/7/97 -0500, Matt Cuttler wrote:

quoted 4 lines He then graduated to Led Zep's

>> He then graduated to Led Zep's >> Ironman— > >Are you joking?

1. What's your point? 2. Didn't Black Sabbath write Iron Man? Either way, this is pointless. ObIDM: That new Vampyros remix CD on Crippled Dick Hot Wax is currently only available on the german imprint. While, CDHW has just opened a US office, they've currently only just released Schoolgirl Report CD/LP, and have no plans at the moment to release the Vampyros Lesbos remix album. Of course I could be completely wrong. Aaron np: kumo (airbag) ------------------------------------------------------ bleepbloop is online at http://tracie.res.cmu.edu bleepbloop radio every tuesday from 4-6am (EST) WRCT Pittsburgh, 88.3FM listen on the web at http://www.wrct.org