#Turntablism

2025-07-08

a #turntablism classic - pirate pressing I’m afraid, as this never officially came out on vinyl. pretty rare, but somehow found and bought in the first 2nd hand vinyl store I visited after getting my turntable 🥳

this is one for fans of all kinds of music - find it on youtube or wherever; it’ll bring you joy

#NowPlaying DJ QBert - Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Musik @vinylrecords #hiphop

A vinyl record cover of DJ QBert’s Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Musik (black with a sticker with artwork and the title and artist) next to a turntable playing the record
2025-06-28
Album cover for Give Badbonez a Break by Ramson Badbonez. The artwork features a crouched golden skeleton wearing a green army helmet with three white stars. The background is black, and the album title is displayed in a bold yellow font at the top,

#albumcover #artwork #vinyl #hiphop #rap #undergroundhiphop #undergroundrap #music #bandcamp #vinylrecords #beatmakers #turntablism #scratchdj #hiphopart
Album cover for Give Badbonez a Break by Ramson Badbonez. The artwork features a crouched golden skeleton wearing a green army helmet with three white stars. The background is black, and the album title is displayed in a bold yellow font at the top, along with the subtitle "Chopped and looped by DJ IQ & DJ Gone."
2025-06-12

Adorno tries to convince his readers that that the turntable (and the record) is a net positive for critical engagement with music (he foreshadows turntablism, as I’ve argued here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108): interestingly it features as a ghostly device in The Magic Mountain by his correspondent Thomas Mann.

jstor.org/stable/778935

jstor.org/stable/778935

That’s why it’s use as a signifier of nostalgia (pipe and slippers) and indeed aging (and memory loss) is so interesting in TV - whether it’s Inspector Morse, or (CJ’s father in the West Wing, thanks @bazzargh ) it tends to be as a reactionary force at odds with the potential seen by Adorno, and realised in DJ/turntablist culture where the turntable affords techniques for critique of musical material via reconfiguration.

It is also at odds with association of vinyl paraphernalia with the presentation of a pretentious high cultural attitude. The opening of the movie of Highrise where the central character manages to get his audiophile turntable (there’s a nod to Kubrick here also) working despite the collapse of civilisation is a nice example of this trope.

Records are both regressive/reactionary and have the potential for critique: so very negative dialectic ;-)

So there ;-)

#vinyl #adorno #turntablism

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2025-05-29

SPIEDKIKS – MARY POPPIN´ MEDICINE

CC BY-NC-SA ( Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike)
spiedkiks.bandcamp.com/album/m

2025-05-11

Relax to some Syntablism Beats by Kypski, Ali the architect and Benjamin Herman.

kypski.bandcamp.com/album/soli

If you are wondering what Syntablism is, read it up on the Ginko Synthesis website, who make the amazing Battlemixer module for Eurorack:

ginkosynthese.com/product/2463

#dj #battlemixer #turntablism #eurorack #beats #electronicmusic #hiphop #boombap #mixing #technique #ginko #ginkoinstruments #kypski #AliTheArchitect #BenjaminHerman #music #relax

I'm not a robot3rik@oslo.town
2025-04-29

25-year-old self-titled CD-R by the now-defunct turntable-abuser-group (on this release, a quartet) BusRatch, (or Bus Ratch, as it's written here), still live and kicking.

I actually think I prefer this, more drawn-out and mellow album over the shorter and more in-your-face "Memorium" CD — at least today. But I guess the CD will outlive the CD-R.

#turntablism #BusRatch #experimental #CDR

White folded-paper CD cover. "Bus Ratch" in upper left side. 

A circle with some black and white abstract artwork in the middle.
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2025-04-29
ティージェーグレェteajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe
2025-03-26
Meanwhile, Nowaah The Flood & D-Styles released a new album, "Beluga":

https://perpetualstew.bandcamp.com/album/beluga

#NowaahTheFlood #DーStyles #HipHop #Turntablism #Music
Jason (alias Macedonia)bsots
2025-03-26

Track No. 25 for March 25th from my Netlabel Day Radio 2024 takeover:

Part of the @blocsonic artist roster, Cheese gave the world of Creative Commons music something truly special when he turned in a solo album full of dizzying scratches and cuts. A ridiculously fun listen.

blocsonic.com/releases/track/b

Doctor M. Populardocpop
2025-03-24

Kid Schurke has put his old Korg Montotribe videos back online, and I'm so excited to watch them again! His live jam sessions are like a mix of with synths. This is one of my favorites of the series: youtube.com/watch?v=l6keUBE2QEE

PAWAROTA Radiopawarota
2025-02-28

STATYCZNE PIOSENKI O ZAKUPACH I LODÓWCE
odc. 8: HIP HOP
w programie: black political poetry, DJ Kool Herc, experimental & underground hip hop.

PAWAROTA RADIO
Niedziela, 2.03. godz. 20:03, pawarotaradio.pl/
prowadzi: jacques de côté

The Benny Loggins Quartetfeijoa@mastodon.org.uk
2025-02-28

Wow Machine - mini mixer/turntable combo/simulator?

Shut up and take my money!
youtube.com/watch?v=PVdx7figdw #turntablism

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2025-02-24
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2025-02-22

Free download codes:

FIENDISH - UNLEASHED 2

"Join FIENDISH on a turntablism, electronic, hiphop, sonic adventure."

getmusic.fm/l/jcjYRX

The Benny Loggins Quartetfeijoa@mastodon.org.uk
2025-02-05

DJ ANGELO - Funky #Turntablism: REMASTERED (feat. Ortofon VNL)
youtube.com/watch?v=E35SU7BeTx

Sweet, sweet behind-the-back scratching action. The sort that made me fall in love with this style of performance.

Bonus: coloured placement tabs on the records. Only those who have tried it will appreciate.

The Benny Loggins Quartetfeijoa@mastodon.org.uk
2025-02-01

Skratch Bastid & Chris Karns - "Long Train Runnin" Doobie Brothers Routine
youtube.com/watch?v=rkRRmQAVrH #turntablism

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