5th anniversary podcasts – D-Styles and Shorkut interview pt 3

Part 3 of our exclusive interview with D-Styles and Shorkut, conducted December 07 in Harajuku, Tokyo.

The interview is split over 3 videos, filmed by DJ Moyma and conducted by both myself and Moyma. Editing once more, and for the last time, comes from Ed Rooth. Many thanks go to D and Short for their time, humour and openess, Reishi at Vestax for making it happen, Moyma for filming, Ed for editing and Henshaw, Byron and S-Tokyo for the jokes and ping pong madness that ensued.

For more info on D-Styles and Shortkut peep the myspaces, and for more on Vestax head over to their official site.

That’s it for our 5th anniversary podcasts, I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did putting them together. We’re resuming our re-run of the original 70 shows presented by Trick next week, and I should be dropping a more ‘normal’ podcast sometime in late October or early November (depending on how busy life continues to keep me) and also look out for a special Italy session towards the end of the year too now that I’ve temporarily relocated to the old continent.

All three videos are in .mp4 format, optimised for iPod and iTunes viewing but fully playable on any players and platforms, as long as you have the right codecs. So if you get an error, just check your updates. This third video is 108mb in size.

D-Styles and Shortkut Live in Shibuya pt 3 – Direct Download (right click and save as)

5th anniversary podcasts – D-Styles and Shortkut interview pt 2

Part 2 of our exclusive interview with D-Styles and Shorkut, conducted December 07 in Harajuku, Tokyo.

The interview is split over 3 videos, filmed by DJ Moyma and conducted by both myself and Moyma. Editing once more, and for the last time, comes from Ed Rooth. Many thanks go to D and Short for their time, humour and openess, Reishi at Vestax for making it happen, Moyma for filming, Ed for editing and Henshaw, Byron and S-Tokyo for the jokes and ping pong madness that ensued.

For more info on D-Styles and Shortkut peep the myspaces, and for more on Vestax head over to their official site.

That’s it for our 5th anniversary podcasts, I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did putting them together. We’re resuming our re-run of the original 70 shows presented by Trick next week, and I should be dropping a more ‘normal’ podcast sometime in late October or early November (depending on how busy life continues to keep me) and also look out for a special Italy session towards the end of the year too now that I’ve temporarily relocated to the old continent.

All three videos are in .mp4 format, optimised for iPod and iTunes viewing but fully playable on any players and platforms, as long as you have the right codecs. So if you get an error, just check your updates. This first video is 84mb in size.

D-Styles and Shortkut Live in Shibuya pt 2 – Direct Download (right click and save as)

5th Anniversary podcasts – D-Styles and Shortkut interview pt 1

As announced last week, the last of our 5th anniversary podcasts is an exclusive video interview with D-Styles and Shortkut, filmed in December 07 in Tokyo, shortly after the Vestax freestyle battle which was held in Harajuku.

This interview links right back to the first few TTR shows presented by Trick (and which we’ve been re-podcasting weekly since the summer just in case you’ve been under a rock somewhere), where he interviewed Short and D when they toured Europe with the Beat Junkies.

To celebrate our anniversary we decided to link up with the two of them again and chew the fat over various things from battles (an unavoidable subject considering their reason for being in town) to recent works, hyphy music, dubstep and the whole turntablist thing, you know.

The interview is split over 3 videos, filmed by DJ Moyma and conducted by both myself and Moyma. Editing once more, and for the last time, comes from Ed Rooth. Many thanks go to D and Short for their time, humour and openess, Reishi at Vestax for making it happen, Moyma for filming, Ed for editing and Henshaw, Byron and S-Tokyo for the jokes and ping pong madness that ensued.

For more info on D-Styles and Shortkut peep the myspaces, and for more on Vestax head over to their official site.

That’s it for our 5th anniversary podcasts, I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did putting them together. We’re resuming our re-run of the original 70 shows presented by Trick next week, and I should be dropping a more ‘normal’ podcast sometime in late October or early November (depending on how busy life continues to keep me) and also look out for a special Italy session towards the end of the year too now that I’ve temporarily relocated to the old continent.

All three videos are in .mp4 format, optimised for iPod and iTunes viewing but fully playable on any players and platforms, as long as you have the right codecs. So if you get an error, just check your updates. This first video is 103mb in size.

D-Styles and Shortkut Live in Shibuya pt 1 – Direct Download (right click and save as)

5th Anniversary podcasts – D-Styles and Shortkut live in Shibuya pt 2

This is part two of the D-Styles and Shortkut live in Shibuya video podcast. Make sure you check the post for part 1 for the full fat low down on what this is all about.

Part 2 is more of the same, with the added bonus of a guest appearance from Japanese scratch prodigies Sara and Ryusei. As I mention in the original post, watch for their faces as D gets loose on the electro beat. This footage was filmed by DJ Moyma at the Vestax Extravaganza battle in Shibuya, Tokyo, December 2007.

As with previous multi-part video podcasts we’ve done, this one is split into two posts, each with one video and made live consecutively. Subscribers should have the files downloading to their computers right now, and those who aren’t subscribed yet can do so with the widgets on the left or by clicking on the RSS icon in the address bar. Those still too lazy to do the whole podcasting ting can grab the direct link below.

Once again both the videos are in .mp4 format, optimised for iPod and iTunes viewing but fully playable on any players and platforms, as long as you have the right codecs. So if you get an error, just check your updates. This second video is 69mb in size.

For more info on D-Styles and Shortkut peep the myspaces, and for more on Vestax head over to their official site.

Thanks go to D and Short for their time, Moyma for the camera work, and Reishi at Vestax for help in making this happen. And a massive thanks and big up also goes to Ed Rooth for his editing work. These videos will be the last ones Ed edits for us for a while as he knuckles down and gets busy with real life. Since joining the TTR family last year Ed’s put in some amazing work with the video podcasts we’ve been releasing this year, so a massive thanks goes out to him and he’ll be sorely missed while he’s gone.

Stay tuned for the interview which will go live in one week, then we resume our regular re-run of the original shows and I’ll also be putting in another appearance with a more regular podcast towards the end of the month.

D-Styles and Shortkut Live in Shibuya pt 1 – Direct Download (right click and save as)

5th anniversary podcasts – D-Styles and Shortkut live in Shibuya pt 1

True to the saying ‘better late than never’, I’m very happy to bring to you the last part of Turntable Radio’s 5th Anniversary podcast series. I’ll spare you the details of the delay, but let’s just say that 2008 has been an interesting year for me so far and my world trip didn’t help with making things happen on time as they say.

Still we’re there, and so we take a break from the re-run of the original 70 shows presented by Mr. Trick to bring you a very special series of videos featuring D-Styles and Shortkut. Altogether there are 5 videos spread over 2 events – a live showcase as part of the 2007 Vestax Extravaganza battle that took place in Shibuya, Tokyo, last december, and an interview with D-Styles and Shortkut conducted the same weekend in Tokyo. The interview is all the more special as D-Style and Short were the first people to be interviewed by Trick 5 years ago (well actually nearly 6 now!) when the show first started. This updated interview sort of links back to those humble beginnings and brings us full circle 5 years on, as we continue bringing you fresh new music from the tablist world on the regular.

We’re starting this week with two videos from the live showcase. As I mentioned this was filmed during the Vestax Extravaganza battle held in Shibuya in December 07. The footage was filmed by DJ Moyma (big up your bad self sir!) and unfortunately we couldn’t get a separate audio recording so it gets a little ‘rough’ in certain parts, but I think you’ll agree it’s worth it to see two of the finest tablists put on a, pretty much unrehearsed, fine musical showcase. Also look out in part 2 for a guest appearance from Sara and Ryusei, the two Japanese prodigy kids that blew up all over youtube and the internet in the last year. I particularly like the look on their face as D lets loose on the electro beat!

As with previous multi-part video podcasts we’ve done, this one is split into two posts, each with one video and made live consecutively. Subscribers should have the files downloading to their computers right now, and those who aren’t subscribed yet can do so with the widgets on the left or by clicking on the RSS icon in the address bar. Those still too lazy to do the whole podcasting ting can grab the direct link below.

Once again both the videos are in .mp4 format, optimised for iPod and iTunes viewing but fully playable on any players and platforms, as long as you have the right codecs. So if you get an error, just check your updates. This first video is 53mb in size.

That’s about it, video 2 will follow in a few minutes. For more info on D-Styles and Shortkut peep the myspaces, and for more on Vestax head over to their official site.

Thanks go to D and Short for their time, Moyma for the camera work, and Reishi at Vestax for help in making this happen. And a massive thanks and big up also goes to Ed Rooth for his editing work. These videos will be the last ones Ed edits for us for a while as he knuckles down and gets busy with real life. Since joining the TTR family last year Ed’s put in some amazing work with the video podcasts we’ve been releasing this year, so a massive thanks goes out to him and he’ll be sorely missed while he’s gone.

Stay tuned for part 2 people and the interview goes live in one week, then we resume our regular re-run of the original shows and I’ll also be putting in another appearance with a more regular podcast towards the end of the month.

D-Styles and Shortkut Live in Shibuya pt 1 – Direct Download (right click and save as)

Turntable Radio – The Mr Trick Years: Show #4

Something I always loved about Turntable Radio – and still love about it to this day – is that we got to air a whole bunch of stuff that never saw a proper release. On previous shows that included stuff like DeeSwift’s “StretchedAnimalSkinDrum” piece or (in stark contrast) Weak_Sauce’s priceless “Scrote Shrivla” track. On this show, unreleased gems appeared from SamSaScratch, Mista Ed and someone called Beltdrive Bandit… who frankly I cannot recall at all. Interestingly though, a couple of the tracks marked as “unreleased” later went on to get signed up. I know, because I signed them: Waxfactor’s “Reggaenomics” and 2tall’s “The Rise”.

Also appearing on this show are the likes of DJ Faust, DJ Talkback, Live Human, D-Styles, Rob Swift and more. Oh, and there’s the remake of Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit”, feat. Q-Bert, Mixmaster Mike, DXT, Babu, Faust and Shortee… something I’d also totally forgotten about!

Full tracklisting here.

Click here to download the show! (110mb)

Turntable Radio – The Mr Trick Years: Show #3

The reissue of our opening 70 shows rumbles on, this time featuring music from the likes of D-Styles, Bullet Proof Space Travellers, Toadstyle, Shortkut, Craze, Kid Koala, Praxis, The Turntable Monks and – for the old skoolers out there – DJ Cheese, doing his thing at Fresh ’86. Oh and DeeSwift – remember him? Well, here’s his then-infamous StretchedAnimalSkinDrum file that was impressing heads all over various websites.

For the full tracklisting, click here.

Click here to download the show! (110Mb)

Turntable Radio – The Mr Trick Years: Show #2

Show #2 remains a favourite of mine in the entire output of Turntable Radio. Why? Because it was a D-Styles and Shortkut special, in which I sat down with the guys to try and get more info from them. After all, they were never the most verbose people online (no bad thing that, I hasten to add), leaving plenty of scope to ask about, amongst other things, the breakup of the ISPs, the work with Ricci Rucker and more. In addition, we got a sneak preview of the then-forthcoming Phantazmagorea album and exclusively aired two tracks – quite a score at the time!

I also have fond memories of this for another totally unrelated reason, namely D-Styles phoning then-Snatchcon moderhater Big Lee in a bid to get him to come down and meet us. Lee was having none of it, and to this day I’m still convinced he thought it was a prank call or something.

Random trivia: DJ Woody later used the audio of D-Styles saying his name in a BBC Radio 1 session. My “sounds like Prime Cuts” tones were also in there. It was an odd moment.

Anyway – full tracklisting is here.

Click to download Show#2! (113Mb)

Turntable Radio – December 07 podcast

With a bit of delay (well ok maybe more than a bit) the final podcast of 2007 is available. Just in time for xmas and new year too, so hopefully most of you will have plenty of time to enjoy it over the holidays. This one is a bit of a special too, with a whole bag of exclusives so I can only recommend you bump it loud, sit back and enjoy. And maybe also annoy some family members in the process.

In this month we have brand new tracks, exclusives and never heard before remixes from 2tall, Ken One, Baku, Blood One, Delusions of Grandeur, edIT ft D-Styles, Yppah, Tayone, Bungalow Zen and Domeldogg. The artists getting remixed include The Bug, Baku, Kentaro and 2nd Class Citizen, and we’ve also got a few old favourites from Taim, Happee and Shone thrown in for good measure. Some of the exclusive remixes and tracks are among some of my favourite this year, and the show serves as a kind of roundup for 07 too, as it features a majority of the artists who’ve been doing a lot of interesting work across the board, and the world.

As usual there’s a full tracklist with links and info below so if you like what you hear please show your support by hitting up the artists and label and purchasing the music. The podcast is available on iTunes, Odeo, via our RSS feed on feedburner and all other podcatching services (which are linked on the top right corner of the site) and for those who still haven’t figured out how to subscribe to podcasts, there is a direct link at the end of this post as well as a flash streamer for those at work. Subscribers will receive the podcast very shortly.

Turntable Radio will return in 2008, with a bit of a special occasion. As of September 07, Turntable Radio is five years old. That’s right five years of broadcasting (on FM, online stream and then podcasts) tablist music from around the world, and across the years. To celebrate the occasion we’ll be running a series of podcasts until September 08. The podcasts will include both audio and video, continuing from the successful video casts we did this summer with the Cuts of Culture 2 special. I won’t divulge too much yet as we’re still finalising various things, but you can be sure it’ll be a series of podcasts to remember. For a start it’ll mark the return to TTR of Mr Trick for a special one-off versus show between Trick and myself, and the series will also feature a video interview with D-Styles and Shortkut, who were the first two people interviewed by Trick five years ago on the first ever TTR show. Other guests on the series will include Mr Henshaw, Ken One, Baku, 2tall and more both in audio and video. I’ll be posting more details as we have them but you can expect the 5 year anniversary special to start sometime in Jan/Feb 08.

Until then we wish everyone of our listeners, all the artists and labels, and all our supporters a very happy and joyful holiday season and we’ll catch you all in 2008.

Peace

Laurent

December 07 podcast – Tracklist:

DJ Baku – Turntable Radio Intro
Perk – Chotto
Domeldogg – Unhappy Love Song – Unreleased
2nd Class Citizen – Wishing Well (2tall remix) – Exclusive to TTR, original taken from the ‘Wyred Folk’ Ep, out now on Equinox Records
Bungalow Zen – 500 miles – Exclusive to TTR, taken from the forthcoming Bungalow Zen album
Bju – Hiccups at night – Taken from the Futurists pt1 album sampler, available for download here
The Stones – Ragoo – Exclusive to TTR, taken from Tayone’s forthcoming debut album
DJ Kentaro ft. Hifana – Harvest Dance (Yppah remix) – Ninja Tune
No Luck Club – Birds on Parade – Taken from the album Prosperity out soon
DJ Baku – Spinheddz (Ken One Scratch mix) – Exclusive to TTR, original taken from DJ Baku’s debut album Spinheddz out now on POP GROUP recordings
Shone – Black Rain – Collekt’or
edIT ft TTC, Busdriver and D-Styles – Crunk de Gaulle – Alpha Pup
Dj Blood 1 – Fresh on Wax – Unreleased, www.myspace.com/djblood1
Happee ft DJ Ruthless – Rawoutdaspeaker – Where’s Happee Music, taken from the album The Renaissance
Taim – What Do You Want From Us – TTR exclusive
Grandeurs of Delusions – Jamais Vu – Nause Corps.
Dj Blood 1 – Empirical Oscillations – Unreleased, www.myspace.com/djblood1
The Bug ft Warrior Queen – Poison Dart (DJ Baku megamix) – Ninja Tune

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‘Cuts of Culture 2 – The Podcasts’: Week 8

We finally reach the penultimate session in our 2 month long special podcast series. After 7 weeks of videos and audio we’re now very proud to present to you the Cuts of Culture 2 compilation mix by 2tall. Which I’m going to guess is probably what most of you have been waiting for. Well you have to wait no longer, it’s here in its full glory for you to enjoy. And be sure to stay tuned for week 9, as we see off the Cuts of Culture 2 Podcasts with some very tasty secret downloads, which you’ll have to wait another week to find out all about.

Various Artists mixed by 2tall – Cuts of Culture 2
This mix follows from the first Cuts of Culture compilation which was released in 2005. Once more the idea was simple – to put together and showcase a selection of who we rate as the best and most interesting artists today working with turntables. As is always the case we weren’t able to get everyone we wished, but after 6 months of hard work in early 2006 2tall was able to put together this mix showcasing some of our favourite established and upcoming artists.
Building on the first release, this time we also wanted to showcase more worldwide talent and so we have not only established names from the US and European countries, but also upcoming talents from Poland, Japan, South Africa, Hungary and Germany. In addition we also wanted to put more focus on the production work which these artists do, after all the turntable is only a means to an end, another production tool. Something we’ve done by featuring collaborative tracks between tablists and producers including the likes of Bayaka (Japan), Exile (US), Thrash (UK), Evil Ed (UK) and Bichi (Denmark).
Exclusive tracks come from the likes of D-Styles, Excess, Tayone and Bungalow Zen, ie.merg_, Netik and Dq alongside tracks which are available in all good shops, and which we urge you to check out if you like what you hear.
Rounding off this showcase of musical talent is another posse cut masterminded by 2tall – following from his first posse cut on the previous volume, this time his ‘Sharpshooters Convention’ features renowned and not so known cutters including Enfoe, Taim, Unkut, Square One, Rafik, Captain Cavern and Netik.
As we’ve said before the aim with Cuts of Culture has always been simple and we hope that once more we’ve managed to achieve it. Show that there is so much more to this scratching thing than what people might first think and provide a platform for people to showcase their work to the public at large. The mix, and compilation, is now just one year old, having been originally planned for a late 06 release and while it’s taken some time to get it out we reckon it’s still sounding fresh.
To accompany this download we’ve made available the original liner notes and tracklist in pdf format as well as a hi res version of the cover, which you can download and print should you want to (see links below).
For more on 2tall and all the artists and releases check the liner notes which include links and all release info (links are clickable directly from the pdf file).

Cuts of Culture 2 mix by DJ 2tall
2tall � Intro
Eprom aka Base Bizzard – Action Break
Netik – Synthesiz
Dq � Strike Part 1
DJ Baku � Vandalism
Real Tablist – 6 DJs + 1
DJ Majestik feat. Rizkay � Harmonia
K-Delight feat. DJ-JS1, J-Red, Woody, Profound & Ironcyde, Universon, Krash Slaughta, Eddie Scratch, Evil Ed & 2tall � Scratch Club
DJ Exile & DJ Day – A Day In Exile
DJ Happee feat. Dinoh – Get My Point
Lamont – Senses Overloaded
A.D.S – Cold Mornings
ie.MERG – Midnight, NYC, July, 90 degrees
Taim & Faltmeister � Rendez-Vous
Excess � Ask And I Shall See
Noisy Stylus � Kindness
Manipulate & Thrash – Strontium Sleazewave
Bayaka feat. D-Styles � Edomachen
Phonomorphia – Plan�te Cerveau 44-3
Bungalow Zen � Frequency
Bichi – Clouds Are Parcelled Out Across My Vision
2tall – Sharpshooters Convention ft. Enfoe, Taim, Unkut, Square One, Rafik, Captain Cavern and Netik

The file is 154mb, .mp3 format, 320kbps.

Direct download link (right click and save as)

Cuts of Culture 2 Liner Notes and Artwork – pdf format

Cuts of Culture 2 hi res cover art work – jpg format

So that’s it for Cuts of Culture 2 – the last statement from ourselves, but far from the last you’ll hear of us. We’ll be back next week with one last round of secret downloads for you and after that you can look forward to a very special Japan show as well as a return to our usual podcast format. Next show should hit late september and the Japan special will follow in early October.

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