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Just Jamming

Yo Yo Yo I got a couple of gigs coming up next month. One D Jing and one Electric Bar B Q gig but more on that as we get closer to the dates.
Yesterday I droped in on me ol' mate Angus (DJ Bribe). We fired up his studio and had a 6 hour session. We just goofed off and had a good time. I got up some beats and Bribe got on the decks. I think we got the beginning of something here. We might have to find a rapper.

Hired Gun

Sometimes when friends of mine on the hip hop rap tip need some live scratching they give me a call. One such outfit is SAVIDAS but I wouldn't exactly call em Hip Hop or rap. They have there own sound. Nothing too deep. It's funny, poppy, great drinking music. I like it!

Diggin in the archive.

The other night diggin through a crate of old records I found this little gem. Electro 2. I'd love to tell ya that I got it when it come out back in 83 but I didn't I got it a couple of years later. Brand new off the shelves of Rocking Horse records (they're still there). This record meant so much to me. I was 17 and not allowed into clubs yet. My older friends were telling me about this thing they had heard at a club called beat mixing. I was already into tape manipulation. Cutting and splicing. Making weird noises and was doing the S A E course in Milton. I was just starting to get into hip hop but more on the Steinski tip then on the rap side of things. Any way my friend (Miles) was telling me how the music "Just doesn't stop man! The tracks keep changing but the beat just keeps going." So how was the D J doing it I asked? With records he said. Wow . I thought that was so cool. I knew about tape loops and the benefits of having 2 copies of the same record and repeating just the breaks from both but I knew nothing about beat mixing. I just hadn't thought about the concept of pitch control. I had to sneak into this night club and hear this for myself. The name of the club was 42nd Street and it was at The New York Hotel on Queen St in Brisbane. It's not there anymore. It's a shopping mall now. The first beat mix I heard was Bohannan's Let start to dance into Double Dutch bus by (oh shit) the Neptunes ? Maybe? Then I just had a seat and watched the D J for a bit. I really thought that was some pretty amazing shit. Monday morning and I was at the record shop and there it was. Just sitting there. Waiting for me. Electro 2. It had the lot. Scratching, rapping, beat programming, cut and paste and this new thing I was just getting into called beat mixing. I ended up ordering a few more in the series but this one for me was the best of em. It 's over there with my links if ya want to have a listen but be quick I can't leave a gem like that there for too long. I'm sure if you are a D J you will want to order your own "real" copy for yourself. Enjoy. *REMOVED*