Word: turntablist
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...later we end up in the disco, where a ragga emcee is mashing it up with De La Soul in “Flight Tonight.” Still later, an innocent cruise arrives at a deranged world of psychotic schoolchildren, cowboys and Indians and talking parrots, in the turntablist cut-up anthem “Frontier Psychiatrist.” With all its painstakingly woven samples—over 900, including the first-ever legal Madonna sample (from “Holiday,” no less)—Since I Left You is the definitive Endtroducing?...
...online WFMU as easily as New Jerseyans and thereby subject themselves to a cabal of DJs whose interests include Somalian folk, Italian film scores and klezmer. For that matter, a metal fan from Beijing can log on to BBC.com and come across a Manchester drum-'n'-bass turntablist featured on the home page...
...Carluccio started scribbling down different lines to represent the various scratches. Then he put his lines on a modified musical staff, with the vertical axis representing the rotation of the record and the horizontal axis representing time. Ever since, he's been refining the system he calls TTM, turntablist transcription methodology. "Before notation, the music didn't have a lingua franca," says Carluccio. "People would refer to certain scratches, like a baby scratch"--which moves the record back and forth without mixer controls--"or a drag"--a slow scratch that creates a low pitch--"but no one knew...
...only in the usual New York studios, but also in a solar powered shack in Hawaii while living in a tree house. Over the years they have frequently worked with other jazz innovators like John Scofield and Charlie Hunter, but have also been known to lay down sets with turntablist DJ Logic...
...display, it took just two turntables and two microphones to make for what was perhaps the evening's highlight. Only about half the crowd had stayed for the closing performance, by freestyle rap duo Scott & Chiqui (comprising Scott Roy '99 and Chiqui Matthew '00, with Tyler Wood '01 as turntablist), but as the duo called the audience forward, it became clear that the wait was worth it. Roy and Matthew's rhymes flowed smoothly, and their old-school touches (human beatbox effects and a strong effort at turntablism). Perhaps the best display of their skills was "Topics," where...