quoted 2 lines I HATE DJs> I HATE DJs
> Every one of them.
Does this include turntablizm? I believe that these guys are the true DJ's
and say what you will but the deks are one seriously hard (for turntablism)
instument to master and take many years. Plus the trained ear the see is
this record can match with that record (aka. Dj ShadoW).
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"Turntablist: One who uses the phonograph turntable as a component to make
music as well as an instrument to literally play music." (Official ITF
Newsletter, 1996.)
"If you listen to Herbie Hancock's 'Rockit' today, he's a vital part of the
song and if you take his scratches out then something's missing. I always
knew the turntable was a musical instrument but to me he was the first one
to prove it." (Rob Swift, Interviewed by Bevan Jee, Bomb Australia, 1997.)
"With a...phonograph it is now possible to control...any one of these sounds
and give to it rhythms within or beyond the reach of imagination.
Given...four phonographs we can compose and perform a quartet for explosive
motor, wind, heartbeat, and landslide." ("The Future of Music: Credo" by
John Cage, 1937.)
"Using multiple turntables Schaeffer would cue desired sounds from existing
recordings...His only means for altering the sounds of the discs were
through changing the speeds of the turntables, creating repeating loops or
grooves in the disc..and adjusting the volume and playing sounds backwards."
(Electronic and Experimental Music, Thomas B. Holmes, p.120.)
Chops.
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