Jam Burglar

Almost done with Link's Awakening. Good stuff. I still play Witcher 3. I'm playing it though a second time. Agree on Lego World's. It is odd and clunky as Dirk says but I can play with the boy and it's fun to build custom buildings. I recently ordered the Analogue NT to play old NES and Famicon games.

Thanks for checking it out!

Oh damn! Love the voice over!!!

Hey guys, I finished up a new mix. I made this for my 6-year-old son. Lots of blends, cutting and word-play. Hope you dig it! --Promo Video https://youtu.be/_FU04NpRsDM --Here's a link to the full mix in lossless files for your phone (download the "RAR") file and there are FLAC and Apple Lossless files in there. ---> https://www.tablist.net/album/jb-toonland --Here's a link for streaming

Mona Lisa was one of my very first juggles when I started DJing back in the 90s!

Bullshit I say to that. Tapes were designed for portability not HI-Fi. Anyone claiming to be an audiophile and listening to "high-quality" tapes is a dumbass. Sure a tape can sound good but it will always pale in comparison to vinyl, Reel or even MD. That said, I do listen to mixtapes still. I'd spent time converting some to digital and it just wasn't the same so went back to just enjoying them in their original format. Not really my thing, but some of these tape setups are crazy. I will say that I used to buy the Maxell XLIIs (chrome) for my own mixtapes and it wasn't uncommon for me to record a vinyl straight to one of those tapes. There's some compression and saturation when you push the levels. The sound quality on some of those tapes is better than a lot of the "normal" commercial tapes I have. They can sound really damn good. That being said, I'm not sure how a tape of a vinyl record is going to sound "better" than the vinyl. Maybe these tape guys just like the sound of the saturation you get from the transfer to tape. I don't know. In my experience, you get to a level where you really can't tell much of a difference between a nice record player, a nice tape deck, and a nice CD setup. I just like to have a nice portable way to play tapes that doesn't sound like crap (which is what most walkmans sound like). A lot of the tapes I'm listening to are some rugged and raw stuff anyway. Babu "Comprehension" is not the epitome of sound quality. On the other hand, I was listening to the Beck "Mutations" album that I transferred from LP to chrome tape when that album came out and it sounded superb. The "audiophile" thing has never been my cup of tea. If I can't hear the difference FOR SURE, then I'm not going to spend the money. However, if I can hear the difference then I have no qualms putting up some extra loot.

What?!? Why??? Does anyone use them for sports or do they sit in a glass cabinet? And I feel silly for debating spending 200€ on a used Thorens or B&O turntable... It's crazy man. I doubt they're used for "sports" but more likely as just portable listening devices. You basically have the equivalent of a high-end tape deck in your pocket. You get these audiophile guys who will record to high-quality tape on their high-end home decks, then play the tapes on portable players, using nice headphones. The sound quality is really damn good, but whether it's worth the money depends on the person. That's not at all what I'm doing. I just have tapes from back in the day, ... LOTS of DJ mixtapes, but also other tapes. I'm not about to spend hours and hours converting them to digital files. I mainly listen to them in my car. Last year I got rid of my old 2004 VW which still had a tape deck. My new car has no tape deck but it DOES have an auxiliary jack in the console. So, it's 1000 times more convenient to buy a walkman than to convert the tapes to digital. When I dug out my old belt-drive walkmans they were all wonkey. None of them worked right or sounded good. So, I scooped the DD-III and it probably sounds better than the tape deck in my old VW. So, the flossing continues. I was listening to DJ Infamous "Secular Humaniods" this AM instead of some old bullshit on satellite radio.

These direct drive units are great. All metal, high quality heads. No auto reverse. All quality. Kind of like the Technics 1200 of walkmans. The only thing is the main gear was made out of a material that shrinks and cracks. In the past few years a guy has come up with a replacement gear. Yeah man, I have lusted after WM-DD9s many times, but the price is just too much! A good example of your model is £250+ in the UK. It's something else I've added to my "will buy when I win the lotto jackpot" list, cos that's definitely going to happen one day........... Yeah, those DD9s are going for a grand or so. Supposedly they don't suffer from the cracked gear syndrome and the amorphous head sets them apart from all the others. A lot of people are nuts over the Boodo Khan but the "bass amplification" doesn't interest me all that much.

These direct drive units are great. All metal, high quality heads. No auto reverse. All quality. Kind of like the Technics 1200 of walkmans. The only thing is the main gear was made out of a material that shrinks and cracks. In the past few years a guy has come up with a replacement gear.

My new joint

Having a turntable in the living room has been huge for me as far as listening to records outside of DJing. I picked up one of those Line Phono turntable stands from Turntable Lab. Turntable is hardwired to my Denon receiver, which handles the TV, video game consoles, etc. I have some Definitive Technology floor standing speakers in there (part of a surround setup for TV and movies). The Denon also wirelessly feeds to a Heos shelf speaker in our kitchen/dining area. Nowhere close to a nice, dedicated setup with a preamp but still pretty good. Honestly, we get the most use out of the Heos speaker because I can put on records when we eat. I agree with Mike-L. Making it accessible is what counts. Wouldn't mind a nice tapedeck. I did just recently get a Sony DDIII Walkman for my car. Damn that thing sounds good.

There's a huge difference between true intelligence and being able to express yourself in what Western culture deems to be "proper". RZA is pretty damn smart but he was not raised or schooled to fit into the mold of what we commonly expect from intellectuals. I'm sure that if any of use were placed in his situation we would not have achieved what he has. I actually appreciate that he's not trying to speak the common tongue. If he did, he'd be faking it, and most people wouldn't have listened to his music. Of the handful of successful artists I've met in real life, it seems like most of them are pretty smart and usually have extraordinary drive. I used to think they kind of lucked into stardom, and while I think luck is huge, these people also had the intelligence and drive to seize the opportunity and build on it. As for the numbers and code, all that 5%er stuff goes pretty deep with these dudes. I don't necessarily buy into it or understand it, but it's heavily thought-out and can operate as a "code" that one can use for self-betterment. Any religion sounds equally crazy to somebody who hasn't bought in. What really baffles ME, are these rappers who came up in "proper" Western culture, with all the schooling required to express themselves in "proper" English, and yet they decide to try to speak like the RZA in their interviews.

Boyaahhh!

Maybe I should look into this. The one time I tried to use "sync" in Serato it sounded like the tracks were fighting to stay locked. Yeah, it stayed locked, but it wasn't sounding right to my ears. This seems like it might help with this type of thing. Or maybe I was doing something else wrong. I guess I'm just old.

Yeah, totally!

Thanks! Check out the whole mix if you get a chance (you can downloand in FLAC or Itunes from that link and all the tracks are broken out and labeled). That project turned out to be more work than I originally anticipated but I've had a lot of people tell me they've played it a lot. It was supposed to be a sneaky way to get the un-initiated to listen to a full-on DJ mix and it kind of worked.

Broma, I still can't get over this one! I LOVE this joint! https://www.instagram.com/p/B8mE-hHgTxI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I used to mix Mystery of Chessboxin' over Shook Ones II and that always seemed to bump right. I was fucking around with Nas "Half TIme" over Damu the Fudgemonk "Straight from the Harp" a while back and that was working nice too. The only audio I can think of that I can grab right now is "The Message" over "Axel F" https://www.tablist.net/audio/jbs-jockin-80s If you click on the MP3 and go to 48:40 , especially when the 2nd verse comes in ...

Limited due to life/work or you have no longer the urge to do these types of things? Asking because sometimes after work I would rather watch YouTube than cut it up for example. Totally due to life and work. I used to take my new purchases and put them on mixtapes so I could roll around and listen in the ride. I didn't put a ton of planning into them but would loosely plan them out in 15 minutes or so then record the mix. But this is when I had hours in the evening or on the weekend so I could cut it up for an hour or two, make a mixtape for an hour, etc. These days I get an hour a day, tops ... but more likely it's 30-40 minutes ... if at all. So, that time gets spent on the cut or working on more involved projects. I still tend to work on mixtapes along with production but it's more multi-tracked type of stuff. I really would like to do some more stuff where it's less planned out and more just putting together songs to listen to.

This is dope! Much of this I had never heard before.

I remember that one, it was really nice. I played it for some co-workers back in 2007 and they were feelin' it. My homie still bumps that mix.Damn, that's really cool to hear! I really loved that era when DJs put effort into mixtapes. I'm almost done with a new one. It's cartoon samples and scratching over hip hip beats. I made it for my 6-year-old son because it's probably a bad idea to have him listening to Wu Tang and Onyx with the vocals.

Cool idea! I'll check it out and circle back. I used to do a good bit of this type of thing but my time is so limited now.

For me it's good enough to scratch with but there's still a noticable difference. I'd say it's 90-95% there.

Tough call, it's toss up between the 70s, 80s and 90s for me. Maybe it's my age, but I feel that by the late 90s the soul had been sucked out of the music.

One of the things I like to do when I see people who are overcritical know-it-alls ("the tone of the low end is wrong", "Qbert's stabs need work" etc.) is to check their pages. They're always wack or have no content at all. This is why "post a file bitch" exists.