I would not call myself an expert on turntablists, but I'm quite fond of Phillip Jeck, who uses fleets of Dansette portables and junkstore LPs with bits of tape & razor cuts to build up nice repetitive soundscapes that don't necessarily sound real turntable-like. John Cage's "Cartridge Music," worked on similar principles, and you might be able to find a copy at the library. Crawling With Tarts' "Grand Surface Noise Operas" are pretty fetching.

At 04:54 PM 12/2/2002 -0500, richard ladew wrote:

Greetings out there:

I was wondering if anyone could send some good reccommendations (and links / websites etc. to more info regarding) for experimental music with turntables. I recently saw the documentary "Scratch" and I was familiar with most of the hip hop oriented turntabilists (Cut Chemist, DJ Shadow, Rob Swift, Dj QBert, Mixmaster mike, etc..) but was wondering if anyone could point me to the more experimental side of turntable music. \The only one that I can think of would be like Christian Marclay or maybe evolution control committee or John Oswald (although I think those guys are more samplers than turntablists)

I will use any suggestions and include them in my upcoming radio shows for The PCP House of Coffee, an experimental and creative music program.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Your Zorn and Hip-Hop fanatic,

Rich Ladew
rladew@attbi.com

Chris Selvig