Tag: Grand Mixer DXT
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Pause Button Beats
“Public Enemy No. 1” was a pause tape beat” This is an amazing article via Ian Fondue of the Lloydbrary about early hiphop DJs using cassette tapes in their productions – yes a lot of us started creating ‘pause button edits’ and it’s amazing that some of the classics were created this way. I knew…
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RC 211: Mercury Rising
Hottest October for two centuries, warmest September in about 30 years, riots, no podcast for over 2 months, music prize surprises…(ok maybe not the last one). Chaos? Discordianism? Bolivian Cats? Need to send a message to the God of Luxury Bags: What in hades is going on? And put on the tea, I’ll be there…
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Automatic, push button, remote control…
Always wondered where M/A/R/R/S got that ‘Automatic, push button, remote control…’ chant from – turns out it was those proto-rappers and agitators Last Poets on a track called Mean Machine Chant/Mean Machine which is pretty futuristic sounding for 1970 – but it turns out that in 1984 one of the founding Poets worked with Grandmixer…