.:Turntablism: Beat Juggling & Scratching v2.0

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One of France’s finest DJ Netik (2006 DMC World Champ) shows why he is one of the flavors of the year…check out this bedroom battle with DJ Fly (2007 DMC French Champ)

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Yo check out 2006 DMC World Champion DJ Netik (FR) on the cut using mixvibes….

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Check out this interesting video about the art of turntablism, it covers the history of turntablism as an artform and some nice pointers to boot. It is actually a preview to the full length instructional/informational video released by DMC, featuring some of the worlds best turntablists - Babu, Noize and Cutmaster Swift. This DVD is definately worth a look for all those with the needle on the record and hand on the crossfader.

For more info check out the DMC World Merchandise store.

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For those of you asking “what the hell?” Birdy Nam Nam are a French turntablist crew that have been around the block a couple of times. They have a number of turntablist titles to their name including World DMC Team Champions in 2002. The following video is a piece called Absesses of their self-titled album released in 2006. For me it holds a eerie and dark sound that for some strange reason I really like. It is well composed and pulled off without a hitch.

Birdy Nam Nam is Crazy B, DJ Pone, Little Mike and DJ Need and in case you were wondering, their name is taken from a line in the 1968 Peter Sellers film The Party.

For more info on Birdy Nam Nam check out their website and myspace page.

More on Birdy Nam Nam soon. They are a bit of a personal favourite of mine…

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A couple of days ago I posted DJ Plus One’s routine from the 2001 World DMC’s. I decided it would only be appropriate to link you to Kentaro’s full set for 2001. The previous Kentaro video I posted wasn’t necessarily the best part of his set (actually I think it was…) His whole set is very solid, showing excellent beat juggling skills, nice clean cuts and good beat selection. His drumming skills, though, seem to be lacking a bit compared to Plus One.

Make sure you check out Kentaro’s World DMC 2001 set on YouTube. Pay great attention after the sample “We’re gonna do a song that you never heard before…”. That stuff is gold, thoroughly deserved second place.

There will still be more Kentaro to come soon, as promised. Also some timely news on the World DMC Championships which are well into the heats across the globe. View the DMC World DJ Championships website for more.

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In my last post Kentaro tore up part of his routine from the 2001 World DMC Championships. That year he place second to Plus One who pulled off his infamous ‘Still Number One’ routine. I thought it appropriate to let you see the routine that won it that year. Here is DJ Plus One’s winning routine on YouTube. He performs excellently under pressure, coming out with pure confidence and style - “I will not lose” - a big statement that proved to be true. Pulling off some nicely crafted faderless drums, he later creates creates some really unique sounds by almost tearing the needle from the cartridge and finishes up with those still number one cuts and juggles that I will never forget.

For all those who are curious, he is sampling is I’m Still #1 by Boogie Down Productions. BDP are still number one in my book too.

You really gotta check it out. DJ Plus One’s 2001 World DMC Routine. Once you’ve finished watching that, come back and check out the post on Kentaro’s second place routine.

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This is a portion of the set DJ Kentaro performed in the 2001 World DMC final, in which he placed second to DJ Plus One. Kentaro went on to win in 2002, which is when he got the gold Technics he is smashing in this routine.

I really love the originality of the carefully placed lines of tape on the record to create the broken tone sound. He uses the EQ excellently to create a wide variety of sounds. Notice the tape goes all the way to the centre hole of the vinyl to create the broken distorted broken tone sound when he puts the needle on the sticker (at the start). I love those double handed channel fades - so damn fast (I forget what they are called? Anyone know?).

I really love Kentaro’s style, I will be posting more videos of his soon, be sure of that.

On another note, that room that he is in is amazing!! All mirrors? I wonder if this is in his house or what, but a good effect for the video.

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I wanted to post the video of Craze’s 2000 set that took the title over Dexter (see last post), but unfortunately embedding is disabled so I can’t post it on this site. Check out his set on YouTube instead.

You will find parts of this set very similar to the needle droppin’ video I posted recently. This 2000 DMC set was what won DJ Craze the title for the third year running and put him down in history books as one of the worlds top DJ’s.

View DJ Craze’s World DMC 2000 set on YouTube.

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Representing O-Z to the fullest. This has got to be, in my opinion, Australia’s best DMC entrant ever. It might (or might not) be fair to say that Dexter really should have won this title, with all respect to DJ Craze and his skills. Dexter had to accept a modest 2nd place in the World DMC championships in 2000.

Yes, here is some consistency between this and the last post, as Dexter is supporting the almighty Shadow at the forum on June 7th ‘07. Should be a great show considering the skills of both of these awesome tablists.

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Check out this crazy dope video presented by needlework. It only really touches on the talents of one of the most innovative turntablists of today - DJ 2Tall.

If you like this see the previous posts of Lamont on Ableton Live and Lamont funkin’ up 2Tall’s Peaceful Warrior Breaks.

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