Turntable Radio Fifth Year Anniversary line up

Just a quick update on the line up for TTR’s fifth year anniversary celebrations, following on from what was announced in the December podcast.

We’ve unfortunately had some more hiccups but also some recoveries. The main thing we’ve had to pull out of the schedule is the reunion show between Trick and myself, due to the fact that we had planned to do a show each looking back on our respective times at the helm of TTR only for me to realise that my archives of the shows I’ve done since becoming presenter are in a storage room in the UK, with no way for me to access them. So that show is indefinitely postponed, until I get my stuff out of storage. In addition we’ve also had to postpone a special contribution from Mr Henshaw, as he unfortunately had a hard drive crash with all his audio on there (spare a thought for the man as there was apparently five years worth of work on there, we hope he sorts it out cos we wouldn’t wish that shit on anyone).

However on the plus side we’ve managed to sort some previous technical issues and we’ve rescued the footage of D-Styles and Shortkut in Tokyo, including a video interview.

So as it now stands the fifth year anniversary podcasts will be as follow:

- April podcast with special reminiscing mix (this one takes the place of the reunion show)
- Turntable Radio Japan Session 2 featuring DJ Baku, Ken One, Naoki, Shige and Miyajima
- Turntable Radio Japan Session 2 videos
- D-Styles and Shortkut video interview
- D-Styles and Shortkut showcase at Vestax Extravaganza 2007 video

And last but not least as part of the anniversary celebrations we will be re-issuing the first 50 TTR shows as podcasts. That’s right, pretty much the entirety of our archived shows, which were originally and still are available in Real Media streams, will be made available as podcasts one at a time, starting in April. We’ll post the exact details of how these will be made available closer to the time but they’ll be available from the normal feed, likely at a rate of one every two weeks or so. So no need to rip the old Real Media streams anymore.

As for the other anniversary podcasts these will be made available over the coming months until September, likely at a rate of about one a month or so. Stay tuned for more information on each but you can expect the second Japanese session to be first after the April podcast.

So that’s it, as usual subscribers just have to sit back and wait for the content to land on their desktops, and for those who aren’t susbcribed yet then what are you waiting for? See the shortcuts on the top left corner of the site, or previous podcasts posts.

Oh yeah and look out for a little site redesign coming in the Spring too.

Peace

Laurent & Mr. Trick

‘Questolous’ – New album from DJ Quest

Now this one has been a while in coming but it’s finally here. DJ Quest, legendary Bay Area tablist for various reasons (and if you don’t know even one of them you need to fix that up sharpish), is releasing a new album, titled ‘Questolous’. I’d first heard of this back in late 2005 when I had the pleasure of meeting the man at the DJs for Life conference in the UK. A good two years later and the project is done and dusted and ready to drop.

The official release date is April 1, on Zq records. And no by all accounts this isn’t an early April’s fool. The album features a bunch of guests, most of whom should also need no introduction, including T-Rock, Sniper, the also legendary Bas 1, DJ Marz, Dust One, and Eddie K. It’s nice to see so many familiar names from the Bullet Proof Scratch Hamsters / Space Travellers as well as other Bay Area usual suspects, especially since the likes of Billy Jam and co have seemingly gone quiet (on the internets anyways). The package itself is also pretty sweet with some larvely artwork by Herms 1.

The album itself is described by Quest as a synthetic fusion between drum-machine and vinyl, drawing on influences reaching back to the 80s all the way to the present day. Which is a pretty good descripion by all accounts. Across its sixteen tracks, the album definitely has a strong ‘classic’ feel to it, in some of the beats and Quest’s trademark cuts. But there’s also quite a few tracks which are lot more forward thinking, including the awesome bass-led ‘Submarinethump’. Production is a mix of live elements, scratching and drum machines laced with cuts, from Quest for the most part.

Fans of the classic Bay Area tablist sound will definitely find a lot to please them in the album, and there’s still plenty in there too for those who might think it’s deja vu and nothing new. Personally, the album took me by suprise, being a lot more varied and grabbing than I expected it to be and I can’t recommend it enought for those who want a change with a throwback to the older days too.

I’ll be airing a couple of tracks from the album on the forthcoming podcast (more details on that in the next post) and you can already pre-order the album from most big online stores, or check the label’s myspace page for details of distributors as well as Quest’s myspace.

Quest is also touring with Apostle throughout the rest of this month, more details on his myspace.

And for all official Quest business and more, peep the official site as well as the Scratch Hamsters site.

All downloads now back online

Hello all, Trick here –

Just a quickie to let you know that all downloads are now back online. The technical issue – aka “Trick didn’t settle his bills” – is now resolved and the hosting is all back up and running. So, go grab what you missed and as ever, please spread the word about TTR…

peace!

Mr “Don’t Call Me Mr Think, Motherfucker” Trick

p.s. I’ve now added a ShareThis link that will appear on all posts. Click it and you can share the story on most social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace etc), or alternatively you can just email the story to your mates. Go ahead and try it – makes spreadin’ the word easier!

Server temporarily down – feed not working and files unavailable

It seems the server which hosts the podcasts for Turntable Radio is temporarily unavailable, meaning the feed isn’t working properly and none of the files are currently available.

First I heard of this was a few days ago, and assumed it was just a little downtime but it seems to have been continuing.

We’re looking into it and soon as we know we’ll update the site, hopefully it’s just an error on the host’s end.

In the meantime we apologise for those of you who’ve been trying to get access to the files on the feed and not been able to.

Back when we know more.