Tag Archives: Turntablism

Superstar DJ and maker Tag Ronson offers earned both compliment and popular achievement for his throwback, spirit- and funk-influenced use such diverse performers while Ghostface Killah, Amy Winehouse, Young man George, and Bruno Mars. The stepson of guitarist Mick Jones of Foreigner, Ronson spent the very first eight many years …

Prolific Uk DJ the Ruf began his Jeep Defeat Collective project in 1994, one of is own many aliases alongside Mindbomb and Godfather of Strange. The Jeep Defeat project offers in instrumental hip-hop with flourishing bass and adequate, however, not overbearing, scratching. Alongside many produces for his very own Ruf …

DJ Rels is another moniker for the prolific and imaginative Madlib (aka Otis Jackson, Jr.), even though notes away his 2004 debut recording, Theme for any Broken Soul, perform credit work to some “J. Relmond.” Madlib produced DJ Rels after having attended London’s Co-op Golf club and hearing the damaged …

We are one of the most bizarre and eclectic outcroppings of NY City’s experimental ambient/dub/hip-hop picture, also the foundation of such performers as DJ Spooky, Sub Dub, Byzar, Liminal, and Brooklyn’s WordSound collective. A trio of overall performance performers with hands in almost twelve different tasks, We evolved from some …

The instrumental hip-hop duo of DJ Peter Parker and bassist Sneaky started performing as Fingathing in 1999. Peter Parker was a bedroom DJ found out by Tag Rae of trip-hoppers Rae & Christian in a DMC competition in 1997; Sneaky — a classically qualified bassist — was employed in a …

Oakland local Lateef the reality Loudspeaker first made his contribution towards the Western Coast hip-hop motion with “The Wreckoning”/”Latyrx” solitary in 1996. Because of the creation backings of DJ Darkness, microphone efforts from Lyrics Given birth to and monetary help from SoleSides’ Information, Lateef followed using the EP The Quickening …

Brooklyn-based Puerto Rican freestyle DJ/producer Tony Touch continues to be an important force within the mixtape scene since 1991, crafting reggae, rap, house, R&B, and Latin underground tapes. Two of his tapes, “50 Emcess Parts 1 & 2,” gained Contact the annual Mixtape Honours’ Greatest Freestyles award 2 yrs within …

Combined with the Invisibl Skratch Piklz as well as the X-Ecutioners, the Defeat Junkies were among the seminal DJ crews that revived the art of turntablism (we.e., using turntables mainly because musical devices in and of themselves) through the ’90s. Recognized by their multicultural regular membership and brand Green Lantern …

Christian Marclay was the initial non-rap DJ to create an art from the turntable, treating the instrument as a way to rip songs apart, not bridge them together. A long-time associate of Downtown improv statistics John Zorn, Elliott Clear, and Butch Morris along with the Kronos Quartet, Marclay was motivated …

Land from the Loops was the alias of Brooklyn-based sonic collagist Alan Sutherland, a veteran of several short-lived rings who considered quirky electronica after his parents bought him a sampler for university graduation. For Slabco, he documented a set of cassettes, Right Away from Milner and Percival, before credit scoring …