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 episode so far including bonuses.

As announced in the podcast for episode 6, the UK leg of the Beat4Battle TV series is now over. Coming up next is a one off China episode and then a new series focusing on Japan. Until then, there’s plenty more for you to get stuck in below and keep an eye out for the next episode which should be hitting the site and feeds in early September.

Beat4Battle TV: UK – Episode 4 part 2 and 3
Featuring: Discuss, Maroon, Manipulate and 2tall.
Filmed and Edited by Yoshi at Discuss’ house.

Beat4Battle TV: UK – Episode 5 part 2 and 3
Featuring: DJ Clix
Filmed and Edited by Yoshi.

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: UK – Episode 3 part 2
Featuring: Fidel Cutstro, Blood 1, Ideal

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. Bit late but I’m on holiday and have better things to do! (ok so I’m doing this, but I’m also sitting in the shade with a glass of pastis so it’s ok).

As usual all videos edited by Yoshi for Beat4Battle TV.

Beat4Battle TV: UK – Episode 2 part 2, 3, 4
Featuring: Muzzell, Tigerstyle, Mr Brown, Silk Kuts
Sponsored by: Dephect Clothing

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

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 Skratch experience to fine cities up and down the UK – expect some great scratching, challenging showcases and most important of all a great party vibe and some serious good times.

Hitting the road will be Grandeurs of Delusion, Blam and Plato (from Norway), Blood One, Discuss, Clockwork, Lone Wolf, Vince Mack Mahon (from Ireland), Fluins and Crkrik (from Germany) and Fidel Cutstro. Dates are as follows:

11th August – Leeds @ Jakes Bar
12th August – Nottingham @ Jam Bar
13th August – London @ The Victoria, Bow
15th August – Lewes @ The Landsdown
16th August – Brighton @ The Gladstone (Community Skratch BBQ)

Peep the flyer above for more details and the myspace as well. And if you missed it check the videos from this year’s Community Skratch Games in Galway for a taste of what to expect. We’ll be at the London and Brighton shows so come say hello!

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 money from their branded Guitar Hero game than they ever made from any of their albums to date. Not bad when you consider their multi-platinum-selling status with records like Pump.

The guitar format was always going to wear out though, and so inevitably games developers have turned their attention to DJs, DJing and turntables in particular (though “Laptop DJ” is one franchise I’d love to see launch… and fail). Enter two new titles: DJ Hero and Scratch. DJ Hero, as the name implies, is from Activision, makers of the Guitar Hero game. Scratch, meanwhile, is being developed by a far smaller company, but is noteworthy for tablism fans for one simple reason: Mixmaster Mike is helping develop it. In fact, it seems Scratch was such a strong product that Activision tried to buy the company just to remove the competition it might present.

What I’m curious to know though, is what you readers all think about this. Personally,I think its easy to shoot these things down as exploitative and undermining an artform that takes years of dedication. Hell, I play guitar and I’m no fan of Guitar Hero in many respects. However there is a flipside to this, in that these Guitar Hero-type games have seen a good upsurge in kids learning guitar – no bad thing in my view. Could DJ Hero and Scratch do the same? Pure exploitation or is there really no such thing as bad publicity – even for artforms??

Comments below please!

Further reading: ‘DJ Hero’ Vs. ‘Scratch’ As Music Game-Makers Turn To Turntables

CocoB online

Long time listeners of the show will no doubt remember the name CocoB, the Dutch tablist and producer who was a firm favourite of Trick’s back in the days. After a fairly extended period of silence, he hit us up recently to let us know his new website was now live.

Head over to cocob-productions.com for the full low down and to find out about the man’s latest projects. You can also check his myspace for more music. It’s good to see CocoB around again, and hopefully we’ll be hearing more from him in the near future.

Community Skratch Music compilation – free download

Rich Nozl dropped us a line recently to alert us and everyone else of a free compilation, 23 tracks deep, put together by the collective behind the Community Skratch Games, which includes Nozl, Jimmy Manipulate, Vince Mack Mahon and the G.O.D crew.

The compilation is available for free download from Nozl’s online shop (link below) featuring music from scratch related artists worldwide. A few of the tracks we’ve aired over the last year on TTR, so this is the perfect chance to grab them and more and have them in high quality goodness for your ears.

While you’re there you might want to put in some pre orders for the forthcoming Vince Mack Mahon and G.O.D releases which will be dropping in coming months and which are most definitely worth your time and money. Check recent Rhythm Incursions podcasts for a couple of exclusives and stay tuned for a new Turntable Radio podcast soon featuring all this and more.

Also look out for some Turntable Radio specials with the Community Skratch Games collective and G.O.D. More on that soon.

For now though get downloading!

Download the Community Skratch Music compilation from Nozl’s site

Tracklist
01 – mikey fingers – unfinished weather
02 – Uncle Lew feat.
DJ GEM, CLOCKWORK, MAROON, 2TALL, MANIPULATE – BOYBAND
03 – lorn, manipulate, jimmy penguin – raymond gobot’s emotion
04 – NozL – Playgrounds
05 – blood 1 – atom of consumtion
06 – vince mack mahon – klavel deserves better
07 – johnny doobs – Corman Knows His Stuff
08 – dj clockwork – owl of death
09 – jimmy penguin and blam & plato – Strømsvn
10 – cavern – DARDA
11 – mikey fingers and jimmy penguin – johnnies t-brake
12 – ken-one – SLOW WALK
13 – tweek – BLAZEAWAY
14 – DJ Mayhem Vs Danny Diggs – everybodys scratchin
15 – Naive Ted & Clockwork – Evil Spirits
16 – Grandeurs of Delusion – Glenn
17 – cavern & sebastien casino – Cri d’un phonomorphe – a 2 tetes
18 – 2tall & clockwork – style catalogue
19 – tweek – sleepy time
20 – dj quest & nac one – the elite
21 – jimmy penguin & mc mupeid – na bac
22 – Deviant & Sebi C – leave it at that
23 – Ventolyn & Becotyde – Restruct [Lorn - Army of Fear]

Apologies all for the lack of shows…

As many have noticed, we’ve been a little quiet with the podcasts of late. Our apologies for this, but as Turntable Radio remains a strictly non-commercial site run by myself and Laurent, it can sadly fall foul of the rest of our lives getting in the way. With the Mr Trick & Wrongtom show taking off, Rhythm Incursions more busy than ever and Laurent’s forthcoming Original Cultures project readying for launch, its taken all our time just to juggle everything and sadly, now and again something falls by the wayside. Rest assured though that we are back on track now, and have three “The Mr Trick Years” podcasts in the bag – one of which is live now, the others following at 7 day intervals. Enjoy!

Free Vangel vs Unkut EP and a new DVD

We got a tweet from @illerhiphop earlier today alerting us to yet more free music this month. This time it’s Canadian producer Vangel teaming up with German tablist Unkut for a collabo mini EP which they’re giving out for free. As they explain on their myspace:

“One world class producer, one world class dj, one vision. Vangel (Canada) & DJ Unkut (Germany) are well known for their talents and innovation in their respective fields of art. Vangel is an unassuming instrumental producer whose diverse musical catalogue has been redefining genres that don’t exist. DJ Unkut is the 2007 Vestax Extravaganza World Champion/2006 DMC World Champion, and has become the next evolution in
turntablism. “Vangel VS. DJ Unkut” is been released as a showpiece of what happens when 2 masters combine talents to create something, “..you never heard of.”

You can download the EP as a zip here. It includes two tracks as well as an Unkut scratch practice. And they’re all well worth your time, trust us.

Vangel has just released a new EP on Scientist’s excellent Equinox label. It’s called Biblio and it’s out now as a digital only release. We’ve been airing tracks from it over on Rhythm Incursions, and we also recommend it.

As for Unkut he’s also just released a new DVD, titled ‘Wizard of Ahh’ (see what he did there?). That’s available now from hhv.de and you can peep a promo video for it below.

Look out for more from these guys in the next podcast.

New single from ProF – free download

Insideamind member Cheldon aka DJ Vision dropped us a mail recently to announce the release of his latest single, taken from his forthcoming solo EP which is being released this summer. Regular listeners of the show will be familiar with Chel’s and insideamind’s music and the good news is that the new single is available as a free download from his myspace and the label’s website. We’ll pass over to Chel for some more info:

“As a member of renowned turntablist act iNSiDEaMiND, ProF (born Cheldon Paterson a.k.a dj Vision) is definitely no stranger to bending minds. With a well rooted background in vinyl manipulation, he brings a new flavour to the scratch. One part tactician, one part time traveler, this guy twists and turns up beats to unexpected depths with his melancholic samples and off-time tricks. This can be heard and felt in the production on his forth coming EP “Superorganism”…… Out this Summer with a special limited edition release on 5&1/4 records.”

Grab the single here and keep an eye on the label’s myspace for more release news.

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