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

Community Skratch Tour 09 – The video

We return to this side of the pond with a brand new video from the Community Skratch collective, this time summing up their recent 09 tour which saw the crew, and friends, take to various pubs and live venues up and down England for some serious skratch action.

The tour rolled through the country in August, at the height of England’s summer (ie. it wasn’t raining), with the following skratchers packed into a van: 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. As you can imagine it was a rather messy affair, and they captured it all on tape and edited it down to 30 mins of madness, and music, for your enjoyment. So if you missed it this is the perfect chance to see what the fuss is all about, and if you were at any of the dates it’s the perfect way to remind yourself just how much fun you had.

2tall and myself went down to the last date, in Brighton for the BBQ event, and it was a blast to say the least. It’s been a long time since I’ve enjoyed myself at a skratch event like this, and this is most likely due to the fact that it wasn’t a ‘skratch’ event as such, which is where the guys have really hit it on the head for me. They’re there, doing what they love, for nothing more than the love of it, and that translates with the crowds. Others need to take notice.

As mentioned the video is a 30 min edit of what took place during those 6 days, with plenty of live footage, including the superb live show by Jimmy the Penguin, behind the scenes and crowd reactions (that dude talking about dj battles has a point).

You can download the video below and preview a small part of it above (the excellent ‘Chestpiece’ track by G.O.D). It comes in at 218mb, .m4v format optimised for iPod and iTunes viewing, but will work with all standard media players as long as you have the latest codecs.

Big big thanks to the Community Skratch crew for their love and support. Shouts to Rich and Kirky for the video/photo work. Remember you can buy the latest releases from G.O.D and Vince Mac Mahon over at the Nozl shop, and look out for audio from them and more in the next podcast. And thanks to Mark at Skratchworx for the photo!

Download the video here (right click and save as)

Community Skratch Games 2009 part 2

We continue our series of video podcasts looking at the recent Community Skratch Games 09, held in Galway, Ireland in April this year.

Part 2 picks up where 1 left with more live footage from the events as well as footage of various practice sessions. Featured in this video are Lone Wolf, Clockwork, G.O.D, Blam and Plato and Vince Mack Mahon.

More videos are incoming as well as a special guest mix from our man Clockwork and other tba specials. For now though, sit back and enjoy.

For more info on the Community Skratch Games check their myspace. Be sure to also check the NozL shop where you can pre-order copies of the forthcoming Vince Mack Mahon and Grandeurs of Delusions releases.

Many thanks to Rich Nozl and all those involved for letting us air these videos and doing all the hard work.

As with all our video podcasts the file is optimised for iTunes/iPod and viewable on all platforms with standard players including WMV, Quicktime and VLC.

File type is .mp4, 71mb, 10 mins.

Download the video here (right click and save as)

Community Skratch Games 2009 part 1

As promised we continue our series of video podcasts courtesy of the Community Skratch collective with the first part of the 2009 Community Skratch Games, which were held in Galway, Ireland, in April this year.

The four day event saw showcases and workshops take place in various venues of the city with artists from Ireland, the UK and Sweden including Vince Mack Mahon, Nozl, Grandeurs of Delusion, Blam and Plato, Tuki, Gem and more.

The guys filmed the entire proceedings and very kindly put together some short edits of the weekend for us including a couple of exclusive bits just for the Turntable Radio viewers and listeners. This is part 1 of a three part series of video podcasts which will then be followed by some more special podcasts, details of which will be announced soon.

In the meantime enjoy ten minutes of skratch action from some of Europe’s finest at what looked like a very lively event.

For more info on the Community Skratch Games check their myspace. Be sure to also check the NozL shop where you can pre-order copies of the forthcoming Vince Mack Mahon and Grandeurs of Delusions releases.

Many thanks to Rich Nozl and all those involved for letting us air these videos and doing all the hard work.

As with all our video podcasts the file is optimised for iTunes/iPod and viewable on all platforms with standard players including WMV, Quicktime and VLC.

File type is .mp4, 68mb, 10 mins.

Download the video here (right click and save as)

EDIT: I’d mispelt GOD as Delusions of Grandeur not Grandeurs of Delusion. Note to self: working when tired results in stupid mistakes.

Community Skratch BBQ video

We start our very long overdue series of podcasts on the excellent Community Skratch collective with a video from their Community Skratch BBQ event, which was held in the summer of 2008 in Brighton.

I was first made aware of the Community Skratch collective by Jim Manipulate from Brighton, one third of Grandeurs of Delusion and a long time TTR favourite and friend.

The short history behind the collective goes like this:

The Community Skratch Games High Rollers Bonanza came into being Easter weekend 2007 in the Bierhaus,Galway. It’s purpose is to further the art of turntable manipulation and raise awareness of HipHop DJ culture,a riposte to the increasing commercialisation and creative cul-de-sac of modern DJ battles.The centrepiece of the weekend is the Games themselves, taking place amid a backdrop of workshops/seminars, skratch music showcases and a barrage of funk, hiphop, electro and sweaty dancing folk….

And this in so many words is exactly why the Community Skratch Games and collective is a great idea and one that has our full support here at TTR.

Due to my own move back from Japan to Europe, a hard drive failure and various other fun things we haven’t really had the time to sit down and arrange something properly with these guys, even though we’ve been trying to get some podcasts hooked up for about a year now. But I’m very happy to say we’re about to remedy this.

First up is this video from last year’s event, which has been available on the NozL site for a while. It’s a 30 minute run down of the BBQ with some of the best bits from the day’s showcases including G.O.D, Vince Mack Mahon, Blam & Plato, Blood One and more.

Up next we’ll have some videos from this year’s Community Skratch Games, held over the bank holiday weekend in April. And following this we’ll also be airing some exclusive audio podcasts with various members of the Community Skratch collective including G.O.D, Blam & Plato and more. This all leading nicely up to the release of the new G.O.D and Vince Mack Mahon EPs on NozL recordings in the summer. And by the way we’ll be airing tracks from these releases and other bits in an upcoming TTR podcast.

For more on the collective check their myspace. You can also visit the NozL website and shop to purchase music from many of the artists featured in the video.

Many thanks to Rich Maroon for his help in sorting this out as well as Lewis and Jim for alerting us to this in the first place and trying to arrange for various podcasts over the last year. We will get there somehow. If all goes to plan we’ll be attending the next event and bring some additional footage and audio too.

For now though, just sit back and relax.

As always with our video podcasts the file is optimised for iPod and iTunes, but will work fine on all standard players. If you have any issues check your codecs.

File type is .mp4, 197mb, 30 mins.

Download the video here (right click and save as)