Turntable Radio – October 09

Oh, hi there. Yes you’re not seeing wrong, this is indeed a new Turntable Radio podcast. It’s been 11 months since the last one and while they do say good things come to those who wait I may have just pushed it a little with this.

With other duties, projects and life getting in the way it’s fair to say this show has been a long time coming. It would also be fair to say that another reason behind the normal show’s rather slow update has also been my own unwillingness to chase up people and hunt music in the same way I used to. Coupled with a quieting down of all things turntablists and artists moving on to do their own thing, regardless of name or genre (something we’ve always been strong believers of) it all equals to less music, less often and therefore less of a need for a regular Turntable Radio show.

Still that doesn’t mean we can’t pull something out the bag once a year, especially as quite a lot of people still hit us up on the regular. And so we have what is probably the only show of 2009 with an hour of music including a fair few new and never before heard bits from artists worldwide, taking in Ireland, England, the US, Italy, Japan and Canada among others.

Our being quiet on the show front doesn’t mean there isn’t stuff to check on the site. Remember that our new B4B TV series of video podcasts will be resuming shortly with the Japan series, and I will continue to focus on having guest mixes/videos as well as special recorded live sessions on the show. To me right now it’s much more interesting to take the time to go and record people live or arrange sessions than trawling the internet and our archives for audio to string a show together.

As a last aside, for those of you looking for a more regular fix of music then let me point you in the direction of our sister show, Rhythm Incursions, where things are a lot more lively and regular at the moment.

Anyways enough of the blaberring, and on with the music. I hope you like it, as personally I’m quite proud of how it came out and shows that ‘tablist’ artists worldwide still have a lot to offer when it comes to the music.

Laurent

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Intro
Vince Mack Mahon – Bin Grrs Feet, My Bed is the Moon – NozL recordings
Blood One – Atom – Unreleased
The Lin – Shot Design – Unreleased
Clockwork – Owl of Death – Community Skratch, download free compilation here
Teeko – Bridge To Truth – Unreleased
Tayone – Ragoo ft Carlo Atti and Bruno Briscik – Relief Records
Tayone, 2tall, Tatsuki – Ragu ft Bruno Briscik (live) – Unreleased, taken from Original Cultures live show
Lorn, Manipulate, Jimmy Penguin – Raymond Gobot’s Emotion – Community Skratch, download free compilation here
Cavern & Sebastien Casino – Cri d’un Phonomorphe a 2 tetes – Community Skratch, download free compilation here
Vangel vs Unkut – Doing Things – 5 and 1 quarter
Vangel & ProF – Blue Bunny Stampede – 5 and 1 quarter
Machinedrum – 911 ft ie.merg – Norm Rex
G.O.D – Marksmen – NozL recordings
Ken One – Beat 0909 – Unreleased
ProF – A Life Force – 5 and 1 quarter
ADS – Symmetry of Suicide (ft. Grey) – Unreleased

Turntable Radio – November 08 podcast

Oh hi there. Yes you’re not mistaken we are back with a regular podcast, with a little delay but hey good things come to those who wait right? Things might have quieten down on the scratch scene overall, well actually they have but that’s an entire other discussion we’ll have for another time, but that doesn’t mean there is nothing out there and so this month’s podcast brings you a whole bunch of new music, a few exclusives and some slightly older bits thrown in for good measure.

As usual we’re repping worldwide, from Canada to Japan, France to Italy and England. New tracks and exclusives come from Aupheus, DJ 1Tarow, Uncle Lew aka Square One, John Type, Tayone, Ruckus Roboticus, Ghislain Poirier, iNSIDEaMIND, Fidel Cutsro, Baku and Hakujin and we’ve also got a slightly older track from A-Trak’s never released tablist album, featuring Little Brother on the mic.

Full tracklist and details of where you can cop all this are below as well as direct link to the podcast for those of you who still ain’t got to grips with either iTunes or feed subscriptions. As usual if you like what you hear than please go and support the artists, support the music.

That’s it for this month, we return to our podcasting of the original Turntable Radio shows presented by Mr Trick next week and look out for a site redesign and some fairly big changes to the content coming up soon as well. One more podcast should see the light of day before the end of the year hopefully, but there’ll be more on that very soon. Till then enjoy!

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November 08 tracklist:
DJ Baku – Turntable Radio Intro
2tall – Over the Clouds – unreleased, www.dj2tall.com
Aupheus – Frozen Surface – Taken from ‘Excavated’ EP myspace.com/aupheus
Tayone – Special – Taken from ‘Photographie’ LP, out soon, myspace.com/djtayone
DJ 1Tarow ft Ken One – Roots Talk – Turntable Radio exclusive
Ghislain Poirier ft. Ambitieux and Netik – Ladies & Gentlemen – Ninja Tune
Baku – Dragon Circle – POPGROUP, taken from ‘Dharma Dance’ LP, out now
Uncle Lew – Desrunay – Turntable Radio exclusive, myspace.com/freefornow
Atrak ft Little Brother – Step Off – Audio Research
Fidel Cutstro – Phonograph – Taken from ‘Table Talk’ LP, myspace.com/fidelcutstro
Mr Darth – Kamasutra – TTR exclusive
iNSIDEaMIND ft Ghislain – Twilight Harvest – Taken from ‘Scatterpopia’ LP, Groove Attack
Ruckus Roboticus – Playing with Scratches – Taken from ‘Playing With Scratches’ LP, Grease
John Type – Typical Stranger – Taken from ‘Lunatic Decandence’ LP, Irma Records
Tayone – Freestyle
Hakujin – Iyu ni ikiru ka shi ka – TTR exclusive

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 6a

Coming to Week 6, and a month and a half since we started the Cuts of Culture 2 podcasts (damn already?). This time round we head off to Italy and Japan – worldwide for some exclusive music and video from some of the most interesting talents from both countries. The audio side of things is taken care of by Bungalow Zen, the Italian outfit headed by Tayone and Skizo, while the video pleasures come from Japan courtesy of DJ Baku – quite possibly the most interesting DJ/producer/tablist to come out of the country since DJ Krush.

Bungalow Zen – Freequency
This week’s exclusive audio treat is from Bungalow Zen. A name that might not ring many bells, but when you look at who they are you’ll soon realise that these are people who’ve been working hard for years. Bungalow Zen is a project started by Tayone and Skizo, both ex-members of the legendary Italian crew Alien Army. Skizo is one of the longest standing members of the European scratch scene, along with the likes of Dee Nasty and Crazy B in France, while Tayone maybe younger but in the last 5 years has proven to be one of the most talented and interesting tablists to come out of Europe.
Together they set up Bungalow Zen 2 years ago, originally a trio completed by Lorenzo Feliciati, a renowned Italian bass player. With Feliciati on bass and Tayone and Skizo on turntables, keys and samplers, they worked together creating music influenced by their various musical origins – from jazz to hip hop, blues to electronica. In their first year as a group they appeared on Italian cable TV (videos of which you can download on spinscience.org.uk), played live shows and more importantly laid down an unfinished version of their debut album. In the summer of 2005 I was sent a copy of this debut album, and I knew that we had to get these guys on board for the new project. While their formation may not have been anything new, their sound and approach to the music was quite singular. The way they fused traditional song writing and instruments with the turntable and samplers was what got us – and hopefully you’ll understand when you hear the track. The album featured some reworked songs from the last Alien Army album, but also many new tracks, written by the trio and featuring vocalists and guest musicians.
Since then a few things have changed. They spent the best part of a year shopping the album to different labels, with little success which led them to take the next logical step many musicians find themselves in today – releasing the album themselves. In that time Lorenzo Feliciati also left the group, leaving Tayone and Skizo as a duo. He has however been replaced on quite a few tracks by another stalwart of the Italian music scene, the incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist Bruno Briscik. Briscik is a name some of you might be familiar with, as he’s worked with Tayone on various other projects but also with the likes of Excess, D-Styles and Ricci Rucker. The new version of the Bungalow Zen album, which is self-titled, sees Tayone and Skizo handle all programming and turntable duties with guest appearances from Briscik, Feliciati and vocalist Sean Martin. There isn’t a definitive date for the release yet but you can expect it to drop in late 07 or early 08 – and believe us when we say that this is an album you’ll want to make time for.
For the Cuts of Culture 2 compilation, 2tall selected the cut Freequency (which features Feliciati on bass) – a mellow, relaxed number which perfectly showcases the combined musical talents of all 3 artists.
For more info on Bungalow Zen you can check their myspace, Tayone’s myspace (selected tracks from the BZ debut album will feature on Tay’s own debut album, also out soon) and t-turn.com Italy’s number tablist resource. Look out for a lot more from Tayone, who’s quite possibly the busiest man in Europe right now – with a hand in a multitude of projects including Rasjaful! with Bruno Briscik, The Stones and his own solo work and remixes.
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