Originally aired 10th November 2002. This show acknowledged the importance of the German tablist scene with a proper look at the key players, who back then included the likes of Noisy Stylus, M-Tech, Ground Zero (which as I recall featured DJ Scientist, now head of the excellent Equinox record label) and more.
Click here for the full tracklisting
Click here to download the show! (103Mb)
Originally aired in November 2002 and featuring tracks from Muzik Fiendz, Illtaktikz, Infamous, Nyquist (aka 2tall), Kid Koala, Rob Swift & Bill Laswell and more, this show also took a look at the new Thud Rumble “Turntable Timmy” book & CD. Remember that? My word - now that was an all-time high in the Thud Rumble product catalogue eh?!
Click here for the full tracklisting.
Click here to download the show! (103Mb)
Something I always loved about Turntable Radio - and still love about it to this day - is that we got to air a whole bunch of stuff that never saw a proper release. On previous shows that included stuff like DeeSwift’s “StretchedAnimalSkinDrum” piece or (in stark contrast) Weak_Sauce’s priceless “Scrote Shrivla” track. On this show, unreleased gems appeared from SamSaScratch, Mista Ed and someone called Beltdrive Bandit… who frankly I cannot recall at all. Interestingly though, a couple of the tracks marked as “unreleased” later went on to get signed up. I know, because I signed them: Waxfactor’s “Reggaenomics” and 2tall’s “The Rise”.
Also appearing on this show are the likes of DJ Faust, DJ Talkback, Live Human, D-Styles, Rob Swift and more. Oh, and there’s the remake of Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit”, feat. Q-Bert, Mixmaster Mike, DXT, Babu, Faust and Shortee… something I’d also totally forgotten about!
Click here to download the show! (110mb)
The reissue of our opening 70 shows rumbles on, this time featuring music from the likes of D-Styles, Bullet Proof Space Travellers, Toadstyle, Shortkut, Craze, Kid Koala, Praxis, The Turntable Monks and - for the old skoolers out there - DJ Cheese, doing his thing at Fresh ‘86. Oh and DeeSwift - remember him? Well, here’s his then-infamous StretchedAnimalSkinDrum file that was impressing heads all over various websites.
For the full tracklisting, click here.
Click here to download the show! (110Mb)
We’ve had yet more delays, compounded in no small parts by my holiday-ing activities (it’s not how it sounds though, but I am making my way around the world slowly and surely, while making a massive hole in my bank account).
Finally though the last two videos from our Shibuya Session, part of our fifth anniversary podcast series, are ready for your digital consumption. These round off a series of 6 videos that go hand in hand with the audio podcast we aired back in April. Both that podcast and this series of videos are taken from the same session which featured Baku, Ken One, Naoki and Shige getting down and freestyling for about 3 hours. Check the original podcast post for more info on how it all went down.
For now though enjoy the last two videos. The second video is a freestyle between Baku, Ken-One and Naoki. Some upbeat simple shit that hits hard. And of course a little visual rework courtesy of our very own video wiz Ed.
This is the last of our Shibuya Sessions video. Remember if you like what you saw and heard then check out Baku’s website, as well as Ken-One’s myspace and the POPGROUP website. If you’re after some of the releases, you can buy them on the POPGROUP site which has some English navigation and you can also check the brand new Hear Japan site, which sells digital versions of many Japanese only releases, including Baku’s new album.
This time both the videos are in .mp4 format, optimised for iPod and iTunes viewing but fully playable on any players and platforms, as long as you have the right codecs. So if you get an error, just check your updates.
The file is 69mb in size.
Subscribers should already have the files on their computer or on their way shortly. If you aren’t subscribed to our podcast yet than what are you waiting for? You can subscribe via iTunes (find us in the podcast directory), by adding http://feeds.feedburner.com/turntableradio to your podcatcher, by clicking any of the podcatching buttons on the top left hand side of the site, or by visiting the feedburner page itself too (where you can also download the last 15 podcasts on the feed directly).
Lastly direct download link is below for the more lazy amongst us.
The last part of our fifth anniversary series will be yet more videos, this time a video interview with D-Styles and Shortkut as well as some footage from their showcase at the Vestax battle held in Shibuya in December 07. These videos will be online sometime in August, towards the end of our anniversary. In the meantime though don’t forget to check the new regular podcasts of the 70 original Turntable Radio shows presented by Mr Trick. And look out for a more normal podcast from myself sometime in the coming month or two as well.
Baku, Naoki, Ken One freestyle - Direct Download (right click and save as)
We’ve had yet more delays, compounded in no small parts by my holiday-ing activities (it’s not how it sounds though, but I am making my way around the world slowly and surely, while making a massive hole in my bank account).
Finally though the last two videos from our Shibuya Session, part of our fifth anniversary podcast series, are ready for your digital consumption. These round off a series of 6 videos that go hand in hand with the audio podcast we aired back in April. Both that podcast and this series of videos are taken from the same session which featured Baku, Ken One, Naoki and Shige getting down and freestyling for about 3 hours. Check the original podcast post for more info on how it all went down.
For now though enjoy the last two videos. First up is a live remix of ‘I Ain’t Gangsta’ a track released on a 12″ single earlier this year featuring DJ Baku on production and Hokkaido rap crew Mic Jack Production on the mic. For this one though, Baku and Exsample basically took the accapella and parts of the original’s instrumental and flip it all around, adding melodies and a new bassline on top as well as freaking the vocals. It’s by far one of my favourite moments from the session and as has been the case throughout this series the footage is given a nice little work out by Ed.
And if you like what you hear than I suggest you check the video for the original, available here on Daily Motion and go get the 12″ which is available on POPGROUP.
This time both the videos are in .mp4 format, optimised for iPod and iTunes viewing but fully playable on any players and platforms, as long as you have the right codecs. So if you get an error, just check your updates.
The file is 55mb in size.
Subscribers should already have the files on their computer or on their way shortly. If you aren’t subscribed to our podcast yet than what are you waiting for? You can subscribe via iTunes (find us in the podcast directory), by adding http://feeds.feedburner.com/turntableradio to your podcatcher, by clicking any of the podcatching buttons on the top left hand side of the site, or by visiting the feedburner page itself too (where you can also download the last 15 podcasts on the feed directly).
Lastly direct download link is below for the more lazy amongst us.
The last part of our fifth anniversary series will be yet more videos, this time a video interview with D-Styles and Shortkut as well as some footage from their showcase at the Vestax battle held in Shibuya in December 07. These videos will be online sometime in August, towards the end of our anniversary. In the meantime though don’t forget to check the new regular podcasts of the 70 original Turntable Radio shows presented by Mr Trick. And look out for a more normal podcast from myself sometime in the coming month or two as well.
I Ain’t Gangsta live remix - Direct Download (right click and save as)
Show #2 remains a favourite of mine in the entire output of Turntable Radio. Why? Because it was a D-Styles and Shortkut special, in which I sat down with the guys to try and get more info from them. After all, they were never the most verbose people online (no bad thing that, I hasten to add), leaving plenty of scope to ask about, amongst other things, the breakup of the ISPs, the work with Ricci Rucker and more. In addition, we got a sneak preview of the then-forthcoming Phantazmagorea album and exclusively aired two tracks - quite a score at the time!
I also have fond memories of this for another totally unrelated reason, namely D-Styles phoning then-Snatchcon moderhater Big Lee in a bid to get him to come down and meet us. Lee was having none of it, and to this day I’m still convinced he thought it was a prank call or something.
Random trivia: DJ Woody later used the audio of D-Styles saying his name in a BBC Radio 1 session. My “sounds like Prime Cuts” tones were also in there. It was an odd moment.
Anyway - full tracklisting is here.
Click to download Show#2! (113Mb)
So: let’s do this: the original 70 Turntable Radio shows presented by me, Mr Trick. Looking back on these has certainly bought a strong whiff of nostalgia back in the place, and hearing the shows again actually made me see them in a different light. To me, Turntable Radio stands as a fine testament to a very niche music scene, and as time has passed its highly focussed area of coverage has made it something of a historical audio document of sorts, because at times it felt like we were airing every damn track out there.
For show #1, I did a special on a guy I later went on to sign: DJ 2tall. Time has shown this to be a good choice too, as 2tall has gone on to become one of the more respected producers to come from this scene, now working with the likes of Dudley Perkins among others.
Alongside 2tall’s work we had other tracks from UK tablists like Timestretch, Rasp and my future Rhythm Incursions co-presenter Waxfactor, not to mention music from bigger names like D-Styles, Mr Dibbs, DJ Shadow, Babu, Radar, A-Trak and more. For the full tracklisting, click here.
So: enjoy the first ever Turntable Radio show, originally aired back in winter 2002. Remember, we will be podcasting these weekly from now on, with occasional breaks for new shows from Laurent too. Spread the word!
Click here to download Show #1 (109Mb)
Some time ago we hinted that we might do this, but we have finally decided (after some serious audio preparation work) that it is time to podcast the original 70 shows presented by yours truly, Mr Trick. We’ve had no end of emails asking for us to do this and now that sufficient time has passed I think its right that we do, as much for reasons of archiving and history as anything. Arguably, Turntable Radio has been something of a document of turntablism’s development over the years since we began back in 2002. On that basis then, I think its important to release these shows as MP3s to ensure they get downloaded and passed around. When you consider that a good number of the tracks featured never even saw a release, I’d go as far as to say that Turntable Radio may be the only remaining document of them. The 2tall tracks featured on show #1 are a fine example: never released properly, whilst the man himself has gone onto much greater heights including his fine collab with Dudley Perkins…
So, here’s how its gonna work: we will be releasing these shows at a rate of one-per-week for you to enjoy. The only time we will break from that is when new shows and videos go online courtesy of Laurent. So to clarify: the new shows will continue as normal - this is basically bonus content for you all!
Finally, I’d best point out that the video podcasts from Laurent that were due to go online have been delayed. Why? Well, YOU try uploading a massive video file from the wilds of Borneo. No, I’m not joking either - go peep Lo’s exploits on his blog for proof!
Turntable Radio: The Mr Trick Years begins tomorrow at 12 noon GMT. Podcast subscribers will receive the shows as usual, and a download link will be here for everyone else. Enjoy!
As you can see if you’re a regular visitor to the site, we’ve somewhat freshened things up round here. It was long overdue and just in time for the inauguration of our new podcast series ‘The Mr Trick Years’, where we’ll be podcasting all 70 original TTR shows once a week for well… you do the maths. I know some of you have been waiting for these and they are just around the corner. Two more videos from our Shibuya Sessions coming this week and then it’s on baby.
The new redesign brings us right in line with our Rhythm-Incursions family too, so now you have even less excuses for not checking both sites on the regular. Also look out for some forthcoming joint podcasts between the sites, starting with a very exciting offering from the man like Waxfactor.
In the meantime get your browsing on and let us know here or via the contact page if you see anything wrong, broke etc… there’s only so much cross browser testing one or two men can do (especially on holiday).
We’re so fly the new design even allows you to customise the layout to your preference, you can click and drag any floating box around and re-arrange as you see fit or even collapse. Changes will stay until you clear history/cache/cookies etc…
Oh yeah and happy birthday to Mr Trick who’s celebrating another return today!
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