Tag: Hip hop production
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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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Siri Know How
It’s like dictionaroke all over again! Siri’s got skills rapping to Young MC…with help from Skeewiff.
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On ‘real DJing’
The debate about who is a ‘real DJ’ goes on and on…and probably will never stop as new technology comes in, although ironic that a lot of the turntablists have on the sly embraced digital via Serato and Scratch. A friend posted this video from DJ Craze, a response to Daniel Tosh and others who…
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Posing DJs
Surprised it took so long (after DJ Notes and Depressed Producers & DJs but DJ press shots are a mine of unintentional humour and a level of geeky/testosterone awkward that gives Awkward Band Photos a run for it’s rather dubious currency. So I present to you Posing DJs in all it’s far-too-‘shopped and embarrassingly posed…
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Spinning vinyl? You’re doing it wrong.
Video is still oncoming…predictably the last render failed after 7 hours. You can now see why I don’t do video much! Anyway enjoy this video which takes the idea of a disc jockey and makes it more disc hockey…this will cheer up those sad from the fact that Technics is being discontinued…or actually not (they…
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Victorian Technics
More wikki wikki wikk-ahh with your Strauss, Sir? No it’s actually isn’t some Victorian wheels of steel for laying down some crinoline skills on the (bees) wax, but the Gaumont Chronophone System of 1910 for continuous playback for films. Still, nice idea thinking of b-boys with bowlers and turntablists with top hats, isn’t it? Or…