Just finished trawling through the explosion that was "CD copying - is it stealing", and felt I had to add my tuppence worth to the recommendations already given vis a vis turntablists. My favourite Christian Marclay discs are - "Records 1981-89", which is a good overview of his stuff, "More Encores", on which he creates pieces out of records by one composer/musician at a time (our Mr Zorn is one), and "Record Without A Cover", which is worth listening to even though what it sounds like is possibly secondary to the concept. Otomo's stuff is always worth checking out, as someone has already said. He did a duo disc on Ambiances Magnetiques with Martin Tetreault, "21 Situations", which is a good example of two fine turntablists working together. Tetreault also has an excellent duo disc with Kevin Drumm on Erstwhile, "Particles and Smears", but you'd be hard pressed to work out that his sounds come from a turntable if it didn't say so on the sleeve. I have problems with David Shea. I thought "The Tower Of Mirrors" was excellent, but everything I've picked up by him since has disappointed. He's not really a turntablist either, more of a sampler. On my side of the pond, Philip Jeck's new disc "Stoke" builds on some of the more limited edition stuff he has done in the past few years. He's more of a long loops kinda turntablist than the guys above, creating atmospheres rather than hacking enormous jump cuts out of the aether. Not that he doesn't get worked up *sometimes* though. My current turntable hero is Janek Schaefer. Janek is a (former?) architect who looks at sound in a very different way to the more musicianly types mentioned above. He also thinks about the record as an artifact, for instance his "On/Off" LP has two grooves - one the normal spiral, the other cut off centre, causing your tone arm to sway drunkenly and the simple tone to turn into a sine wave. His triphonic turntable is something else too. Check out his website at http://www.audioh.com/ I've no financial axe to grind, I just think more people should be aware of his work. Alastair -- Personalised email by http://another.com