Jam Burglar

J House, wack, Symatic, wack, Dopez, wack Joe, hasn't posted yet but, ... wack. Rock Well, wack for coming up with this topic Steve, wack for hosting this whole webpage Am I doing this right?

Cut n Paste for the win! I'm pretty excited for this one.

This is sick Broma!

I did a longer edit from the same improvisational sesh and that should be on "Put the Needle on the Record with Billy Jam" tonight on WFMU (7:00 PM Eastern Time) (these stream after they're aired). http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/84198 If you didn't know already, Billy Jam helped put on the Skratch Piklz back in the 90's with the Shiggar Fragger Show, released some Bullet Proof Scratch Hamster joints, did the Turntables by the Bay compilations etc. Somehow he and Alf linked up (Alf seems to knows everybody) and Alf slid the track to him. WFMU is kind of cool in and of itself. It's out of New Jersey (right outside of NYC) and is one of a dying breed of independent radio stations in the U.S. that still plays what the DJs want to play. Pretty dope. I'm pretty sure Billy does his thing in Frisco but broadcasts out of Jersey.

Whoah, this is cool shit!

Usually when I hear something like that I suspect there's doubling up on the record itself but it doesn't seem like that's what's going on here. An edit seems like the most obvious answer? I agree that's crazy fast and clean.

Nice!!!

Mixes like this are truly a lost art and not that many DJs can pull them off!!! They sound simple but are deceivingly hard to pull off right. I would listen to all hip hop in this format if I could. Dope blends and blazing cuts! Superb!

This is probably what I'm going to do when my ancient laptop dies and I can't cool edit anymore. I've gotten so used to cool edit that I don't want to learn a new program.

Soon it will have it!

This is fire Joe!

I hear you. That lack of effects loop took the 72 off my list of wants. It seems possible to add one. I imagine it's probably more of a question of where in the signal chain to tap into the signal and the internal effects probably complicate that. Are schematics available? There's also the issue of hacking up a brand new (and very expensive) mixer. Pretty gutsy. You know, it's pretty sad how the quality of the Effects Loop has tanked on Rane mixers. The 56 was great. Effects were post-fader, individually assignable, used 1/4" jacks, even a had wet/dry! The only thing lacking was a gain adjustment! I have the 57mkii and it's weak compared to the 56: RCA jacks, no wet/dry (not to mention they got rid of the pan faders!) Pretty toyish. Then they put out the 72 and ditch the external effects all together. If I had my way I'd have 2 or 3 independent but chainable effects loops on my mixer, each with 1/4" jacks, wet/dry, gain adjustments, pre-post fade selector, AND stereo to mono/mono to stereo circuitry like the SM82 so you can easily hook up mono effects like wah. That would be dope. And oh yeah, they could also put their shitty little internal or Serato effects in too as long as they didn't screw up the external effects loops.

These motherfuckers.

Doh! Site's down. I'll come back!

Seen a good bit of Manipulate and Jimmy Penguin clips too. Where's the Symatic clips though!?? Totally lacking so far! Unacceptable Sy!

We had a really dope freestyle dj band jam at the Xmas SSS, I'm always cautious of these kinda jams at SSS as it only takes one over keen cutter to make it fall apart - everyone needs to be on the same page of little is more etc... Really wish we had the camera rolling and line in audio of that xmas SSS jam, despite having around 7 of us on the cut at the same time it sounded really dope with loads of good build and break down moments. (until one of the non regulars got a bit to keen) And 9 times out of 10 that dude thinks he's the most bad-ass DJ in the world.

Word. people tend to either love or hate those laserdisc games. If you can get over the fact that you can't fully control the cartoon (kind of an unrealistic expectation for 1983 technology when you think about it) the arcade version has more appeal because it's not castrated like all the home versions. In the home versions you can continue and that completely kills a game because there's no challenge and no replayability. In the arcade you drop your 50 cents and have to make it through with no continues (I think you can get up to 5 lives and that's it). The arcade also has more punishing rules for the timing of your movements and for incorrect moves (you can also adjust the difficulty level). That being said, at its core is basically a modified version of Simon Says and tons of people just don't like that style of game. I got this laserdisc with prototype Dragon's Lair footage that's a little more "open". Instead of just one way to make it through a room, there's multiple ways. It's obviously not full control over the cartoon but it gives you feeling of a lot more control. Not sure why they gave up on that. Probably animation expense. Space Ace is just crazy hard and that's what takes me back to that one. Dragon's Lair II is even harder. Every few years I try to make a run on those and I still haven't beaten em. But anyway, the thing I learned about owning arcade games is that you want them to be super hard because otherwise you dominate them and they won't keep you interested. Anything with continues is not good because when the game doesn't cost you anything per play there's no incentive not to die anymore (it's like playing the lotto with no money if you win). For example, Gauntlet was cool in the arcade but sucks for the home. I've got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and that one just doesn't have much replay for me. Got that for my son who liked it when he was 3 but he's moved on. A game like Ms. Pacman will take hours to play when you get good because its too easy. Q*Bert is also too easy but there's a "Harder, Faster, More Challenging Q*Bert" that's good. Dragon's Lair and Space Ace kind of have a mid-way appeal for me. They're not really motor-skill games like Donkey Kong so I don't play them as much but they're hard to beat and don't take more than 20 minutes or so.

Fuck it, everybody just drop by my house and we can bang these out all day long! My house is heated and I have, literally, all the water you could ever hope to drink. On a side note, you guys who have the opportunity to regularly get up with a crew of DJs and do more than just round-table sessions are super-lucky! I've been at this since 95, and this is the first time I've been able team up with multiple DJs in the same room who (a) have the technical ability to pull off scratch composition, (b) have the musical ability to make things sound half-way decent and © are generally stable enough to operate in a group. Not that we came up with anything too crazy but I honestly underestimated how easy it is to come up with cool shit when you have a group of competent DJs.

A friend of mine was saying they just aren't all that responsive.

LOL! But did it change everything?

Yeah, I think Flip Flop was just giving him a hard time, busting chops so to speak. Back in the day there seemed to be NONE of this type of comradeship. Crazy how cool people are now.

Thanks Rock Well. We did variations of this sort of thing for a good hour. Total freestyle. So fun. I recorded maybe 15 minutes worth of stuff so I might try to slap together another file.

I really like the basic concept. It needs to be rugged, touch screen would be really important (although Serato isn't all that touch screen friendly last I checked). Whatever it is I just want it to work right out of the box and never need to update it, or any of that crap. The computer-nerd world does not mesh all that well with me. It's like an unstated rule that you put out something that's buggy as hell and then change it every 60 days but it never really works exactly right and half the time an "update" just means more problems. I say get it stable, put it out, and leave it alone.

Yo A-Skate, thanks for posting. I'm going to try to get this one down now.

This is DJ Select, Alf of Hip Hop Slam, DJ Ragz and me from Sunday. Just jamming out and adding way too much delay A post shared by https://www.instagram.com/jam_burglar/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading (@jam_burglar) on Jan 29, 2019 at 5:12am PST