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Turntablist transcription methodology. Turntablist Transcription Methodology, or TTM, is a notation system for scratching and turntablism. The system was founded by John Carluccio in 1997. [1] A seminal booklet detailing the system was written and published by John Carluccio, industrial designer Ethan Imboden and DJ Raedawn in 2000. [2]
- Vanguard Turntable Technology and Techniques
- Kool Herc & The Early Seventies
- Flash, Theodore, and The Mid-’70S
- Trade Shows Crystalize
- The Double Edge of Yo! MTV Raps
- ’90s Turntablism: DJs in Exile
- The Digital Shift
- Dependable DVS
- Invincible Analog
- Bold Controllers
The birth of hip-hop began with refinements of music and technology long before the first turntablists and emcees took to the stage. As significant as this was, a far more structural foundation for hip-hop as a social force came from the island of Jamaica’s little-known ’60s music scene called “sound system.” Sound system sits at the crossroads of ...
New York shared much in common with postcolonial Jamaica in the year 1970, more perhaps than most Americans might want to admit. America’s postwar economy had dissipated into stagnant inflation, and traditional music programs in public schools fell victim to a New York City fiscal crisis that found the city unwilling to budget money for youth and a...
Our next pair of innovators, Grandmaster Flash and Grand Wizzard Theodore, also attended their fair share of DJ Kool Herc parties. This iconic duo would turn DJing and turntablism into a fully realized genre and would eclipse Herc in the process. Flash was born on the island of Barbados (another former British colony in the Caribbean) and later imm...
By the 1980s, trade shows were accelerating turntablism’s spread far and wide, the most influential shows of the trade being the DMC World DJ Championships hosted in London. DMC’s roots trace back to Tony Prince, a radio professional whose eclectic resume includes a stint as a pirate radio DJ at sea and introducing the Beatles on the night of their...
Around the late ’80s when MTV began airing portions of DMC, a young MTV production assistant named Ted Demme was beginning work on Yo! MTV Raps. The network was cautious about dipping its toes into uncharted waters, but little did they know that Yo!would be the final nail that forever fixed hip-hop to the marquee of American music. For a white boy ...
But what did mainstream growth mean for turntablism? It was a mixed bag. The sounds that DJs nurtured and carried through the ’70s and ’80s were everywhere while turntablists were already facing an unexpected battle with obsolescence. Turntable skills sat front and center when hip-hop was a street phenomenon, but this newfound airtime on TV and rad...
With the 2000s came disruptions to music’s development, distribution, and exchange. The new millennium’s second year saw the MP3, officially released in 1995, gain a slew of affordable new playback options, including the iPod. Also gaining steam were CDJ-style players, a device that brought turntable-style manipulation to the CD users. CDJ players ...
DVS blends the feel of analog turntablism with the infinite portability of digital tracks. DVS uses a special control vinyl routed to digital software like Serato or Rekordbox and has the feel of a conventional turntable. Using 3-stage conversion (analog to digital to analog) and time codes pressed on the vinyl, DVS turns what’s happening beneath t...
For home use, many still prefer analog turntables for exploring the joys of record collecting. Analog turntables keep getting better and better; one favorite at Sweetwater HQ is the Audio-Technica AT-LP120. Technics, the original sponsor of DMC, also recently returned to the market with refined versions of classic designs that made history. Check o...
While many purists still favor analog or DVS, digital DJ controllers can be a great way to jump into turntablism without breaking the bank. They’re often light and easy to transport with tons of customizable functions like hot cues and pressure pads. And, like DVS, you’ll never have to spend money on vinyl or haul crates of records to your gigs. Mo...
Jul 18, 2023 · 1 On the notion of turntablism, see generally Holmes, Thom. Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015), 476–483. Jean d’Aspremont - 9789004461802 Downloaded from Brill.com07/18/2023 08:30:52PM via free access
Pages in category "Turntablism". The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Turntablism.
May 11, 2020 · Turntablism in the History of International Law. This article uses the metaphor of turntablism to shed light on the confinement of international lawyers’ engagement with history to the terms, vocabularies, and categories of the very historical narratives they seek to evaluate, disrupt, or displace. For the sake of this article, turntablism is ...
This article uses the metaphor of turntablism to shed light on the confinement of international lawyers’ engagement with history to the terms, vocabularies, and categories of the very historical narratives they seek to evaluate, disrupt, or displace.
The coexistence of the religious (or “holy”) and the secular (the “profane”) has been identified and celebrated in the context of hip hop and rap music; references to prayer and spirituality are present, while the “hustler” and “gangster” stereotype is simultaneously referenced and played out in this popular genre.
