joeClockwork

The massive poster on my massive monitor at work is borderline NSFW!

Wicked cuts! Has he used any of the Easter eggs on the 12"? I'm sure I recognised one in there.

Yeah man, some nice cross rhythm action going down! I think the bit at 2:20 where you say, "I don't know what that's called" is a chirp crescent flare but I could be wrong. It's that kind of thing. Maybe it's not a chirp at the start... hmmm... Dope vid though

Heh heh... thanks mate

^^yeah, that's nice. I like these (the second one is weird): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh8iI6Z-Rpc

Time to turn up the heat and turn down the bit rate:

These are all dope. Never heard J-House cut before. Damn! Si's is hilarious and the cuts are tight. I half expected Dopez to call me out after I said something in another thread about DJ's cutting over Premier instrumentals but hey, I guess you proved me wrong Good call, Rockwell. I've been sitting on something for a while that could work here...

If he was using the forearm technique you would hear the backspins as well, no? That was my point earlier: you could get it to sound that fast/clean with two notes in a row, but not one note on its own. It's impossible. I still think it's an edit. It seems like a strange thing to do, to go to all that trouble. No wonder he only did it once during the entire mix!

Cool story. Kinda frustrating that he had to leave a load of stuff behind but he flipped $700 into £30k so it can't be that bad! A mate of mine's in-laws are from Trinidad, so he goes out there quite a bit. About 10 years ago he came across a record shop run by this little old lady, who let him look in the back room. It was full of records but, after ploughing through half of it, she then tells him that it got hit a few days ago by two blokes from Sweden and a Vestax Handy Trax. Gutted. The most frustrating thing for me is that I've been through several collections before and probably left some absolute gems behind, because I mostly don't know what I'm looking at.

^^Nice! I checked out the A-side, which is also dope.

Keep us posted on that book release. I'll be up for that when it comes out. I haven't heard much but everything I've heard on ATCO has been dope. I like this one:

I agree that it was probably done on a four track but I can't see how it's possible to repeat a sound that fast. That clip you linked to shows fast fader work but he's letting the record play while he does that. Skribble is repeating one word in 16s, and the change in pitch suggests that he is doing it as a live juggle, but I just don't think it's physically possible to switch between records that quickly.

There were a lot of things that DJ's did that baffled me when I was young, and then I eventually worked out what they were doing, but I still can't figure this out. It starts at 7:25 and the bit I can't work out is when it goes, "This is how we get..." *STOP* and then he repeats the word 'hey' really fast, but how the fuck does he do it? I don't think he's triggering it with a sampler because the pitch varies each time (plus it's 1997, so pre-DVS) and it's too fast to be feasibly done with two copies of a record, especially as one of the turntables has just been stopped. I don't get it. Anyone?? Maybe it's something to do with tape that I don't know about...

Ah, thanks mate! I've got another one that I've been working on for a while now. It's a bit fiddly but I'm going to give myself a kick in the arse and finish it soon. Stay tuned!

Edit: this is really, REALLY good. cheers

Nice one man, well done! Always dug your battle entries.

Also, I don't know if anyone clocked the typo in the artwork but I've fixed it now

Thanks for the feedback y'all! Amen to that.( even though ir was you who started it) Joe, it was The Bob James battle where you entered as your 25 year old self with that dope little Nautilus flip you did, right? I think Alecs asked me recently if it was still up on Soundcloud . Cheers mate, yes it was me but I took it down. I can send you a link if you want. Yeah, it would have been silly if I just left it half done and gave up!

There's me thinking I'd had an original idea. Turns out that everyone and their mother has made a mix of hip hop tracks that sampled good old Nautilus. I only found this out when I was halfway through making it but carried on regardless. Hopefully Bob won't be too pissed (off).

Ah, cool. In other words, dragged through a hedge backwards!

Just finished that mix and it's dope. Nice one! I'd like to know what kit they used on Top Billin' to get the drums sounding like that.

LOL I had a quick skip through and I like it already. I'll peep it properly later on. You and I have something in common - seems we both come up with good mix ideas and then find out that Cut Chemist has done it already!

I can't scratch for shit when I'm drunk. Extra props to you, sir.

Yeah! Please do.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to keep this news under wraps until the fix has been implemented? I mean who would try and FaceTime someone they didn't know if they hadn't been told about this bug?