SE2 week 3 – Jam session live @ Star Pines cafe
Week 3 of our joint Turntable Radio and Rhythm Incursions special featuring exclusive live audio from Ken One's 'Skratch Evolution 2' event. If you missed the first two weeks you can catch up here for week 1, featuring Ken One live, and here for week 2, featuring a live set from Naoki. Full details of the month-long series is at the bottom of the post. This week we've got a very tasty jam session from the event on Turntable Radio featuring the combined talents of Ken One, Naoki, Ichiro_, DJ Duct, DJ Keita, Audace and XLII. Over on Rhythm Incursions ...
SE2 week 2 – Naoki live @ Star Pines cafe
We continue our Turntable Radio and Rhythm Incursions Japan special with week 2 of exclusive audio from Ken One's Skratch Evolution 2 event, held in Kichijoji, Tokyo in December 09. If you missed part 1 check it here. Up this week we have a live set from Naoki, while over on Rhythm Incursions we have a DJ Duct live set. Full schedule of the 4-week long special is at the bottom of this post. Naoki is someone I discovered thanks to Ken One when I was living in Tokyo. Well actually I met him alongside Ken, as he's one of the ...
SE2 week 1 – Ken One live @ Star Pines cafe
As mentioned a few weeks back on Rhythm Incursions we're starting a series of weekly podcasts, lasting a month, featuring exclusive live audio from Ken One's recent 'Skratch Evolution 2' event. Held at Kichijoji's Star Pines cafe, this musical evening featured a rather interesting mix of Tokyo's underground music scenes with scratch DJs, producers and MCs coming together for a series of live showcases alongside some live painting. This was Ken's second such event, up a notch from the first which was a more scratch-centered affair. These podcasts also form the first joint Rhythm Incursions and Turntable Radio series, something ...
Beat4Battle TV: Japan – Episode 3
We return for 2010 in full effect with our roving scratch reporter Yoshi and his Beat4Battle TV series. This is episode 3 of the Japan series, which sees Yoshi hooking up with, and filming, a selection of the best, and often slept-on, Japanese turntablists. For episode 3 he went all the way to Tanashi (actually not that far, it's in the suburbs of Tokyo) to film DJ Rockhill, a seriously talented guy who I think most people definitely aren't really up on - I know I wasn't, even if the name was a little familiar from my time in Japan. ...
Beat4Battle TV: Japan – Episode 2
We return to the B4B:TV Japan series after a little hiatus, and this time we bring you footage of some of Tokyo's finest, including Turntable Radio friend and favourite Naoki. Episode 2 was filmed at the August 2009 Scratch Day event, a freestyle scratch event which Yoshi has been organising in Tokyo over the last couple of years. Following his recent move to Europe he has moved the event from the Vestax PACO shop to what is possibly Tokyo's most appropriate location: Miyajima's scratch school in Tachikawa (which is located in the suburbs of the Japanese capital). Regular listeners and visitors ...
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SE2 week 3 – Jam session live @ Star Pines cafe
Week 3 of our joint Turntable Radio and Rhythm Incursions special featuring exclusive...
SE2 week 2 – Naoki live @ Star Pines cafe
We continue our Turntable Radio and Rhythm Incursions Japan special with week 2...
SE2 week 1 – Ken One live @ Star Pines cafe
As mentioned a few weeks back on Rhythm Incursions we’re starting a series...
Beat4Battle TV: Japan – Episode 3
We return for 2010 in full effect with our roving scratch reporter Yoshi and his...
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Beat4Battle TV: Japan – Episode 3
We return for 2010 in full effect with our roving scratch reporter Yoshi and his...
Beat4Battle TV: Japan – Episode 2
We return to the B4B:TV Japan series after a little hiatus, and this time we bring...
Community Skratch Tour 09 – The video
We return to this side of the pond with a brand new video from the Community Skratch...
Beat4Battle TV: Japan – Episode 1
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Beat4Battle TV:UK – Episodes 4 and 5 bonuses
To go hand in hand with the last Beat4Battle TV:UK episode we have some more bonus cuts (pun kinda intended but not really cos it’s quite bd) from episodes 4 and 5, available for streaming now on Yoshi’s Vimeo channel. I’ve embedded them below for easy browsing or you can head straight to the channel page where you can stream every... (more...)
Beat4Battle TV:UK – Episode 3.2
Yoshi’s on holiday this week, so we’ll be taking a break from our weekly Beat4Battle TV episodes. To keep you going though here’s a stream of Episode 3.2 continuing from where the last one left off with the talents of Brighton-based Blood 1, Fidel Cutstro and Ideal. We’ll resume regular broadcasting shortly. Beat4Battle TV:... (more...)
Beat4Battle TV:UK – Episode 2 (parts 2 to 4)
Slight change of plan to the previously announced additional parts of Beat4Battle TV:UK episode 2. Instead of releasing them weekly we’re giving you all remaining 3 parts as Vimeo only embeds/streams exclusive to this here site! So without further ado, see below for the video goodness, and stay tuned for part 3 which will be online tomorrow.... (more...)
Community Skratch Tour – dates announced!
The Community Skratch collective are going on the road this summer, in full baller status with a mini-tour of some of the UK’s finest haunts where they’ll deliver amazing sounds and showcases never before seen by the indigeneous population. Or something like that. More accurately, the guys will be touring this summer bringing the Community... (more...)
DJ Hero, Scratch: first guitars, now DJing and turntablism.
Its been tough to ignore the monumental rise of the Guitar Hero franchise and its various copycat incarnations (Rock Band etc). As befits these Fear & Loathing times for the music industry, games have now proven a better earner for some bands than the albums their tracks were licensed from. Aerosmith are one fine example, notoriously making more... (more...)
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