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R.I.P. Mister Cee. 57 is too young to die damn...

My dad pretty much was on the world-wide-web as soon as it became available. The company he worked for was selleing PCs to their employes. A Star 386 cost 5000 euros instead of 8000 which was a bargain back then. So my brother and I where in the net almost at the start. I recall having a text-file where I would store all the web-adresses that I would access/check out whenever I got the chance to use my dads PC. So in the early time I recall looking for MMA stuff (rented UFC 1 on VHS when it came out in 1996) and was stumbling on Sherdog.com which is the DV of MMA-Websites. Also was visiting the website of "The Ruff" which was a guy from the UK who I ordered vinyl from before the internet was around. Before the website, I would get a mailorder-list by snail-mail, where you could fill out the order-sheet, fax it to the Ruff, he would fax me back the total amount so that you could send him a check to then receive the ordered records by mail 3-4 weeks later. So with his website the process to order records was a blessing as you could order faster etc. In terms of news I was and still am visiting Spiegel.de which is a weekly news magazine from Germany which is really reliable and has an online presence pretty much since the start of the net. That magazine is owned 51% by the employes/writers which I find rather unique in news-media. And of course there were the porn sites. Big shout out to the user "stupid dummy" from D's Forum who was providing free logins for all these sites pre streaming to the scratch community 😁

Must be the foam. @Steve Pdx's are still one of the best options (besides ttx's), when it comes to just scratching. Especially when you like to scratch these sped up samples that you scratch at -20%. I have a lot of younger scratch buddies who settled for these new OEMs, which are nice. But they also prefer a pdx over the newer ones when it comes to just scratching. The Stanton Str8-150 are the bomb too and the Reloop 8000s with a straight arm...

Still rocking my sewer slimes on my mixing station up to this date!

Nice one Steve. I've successfully indoctrinated my kids with Beatles music (I think it was Dan Swift who told me to do so as he is an avid fan of the Beatles) so this seems nice as a x-mas present...

Damn! R.I.P. Mark the 45 King. What a legend

Looks nice. I still regret selling my Vestax Faderboard though

I just bought a Akai S-3000 for 200 swiss francs. It was still in the sealed box and was stored in a Hi-Fi-Shop since 1993-1994ish. The price back then was 2999 £. It's quite a bargain and I always wanted the S-3000 (I already have the S-950) so I'm really exited about that purchase.

"Take this job and shove it" is still one my favourite punk tracks

They should have put 8 midi-buttons instead of 4 with a shift-button. If ever I will buy a new turntable in the future it'll be the Reloop RP-8000mkII

Welcome to the glorious club of the ScratchBox owners (i got mine with the bag too when it came out). I've never had a scratch DJ visiting my crib who didn't liked that exotic mixer. Treat it well ☺️

No no. I think that SL2-SL4 was capable of running Serato-DJ (the TTM57sl never was Serato-DJ-capable because of the usb1-connection) and now they discontinued the support it seems...

They leave Serato do their thing, which I guess is a good thing. It just sucks that all my devices (Rane TTM57-sl, SL2 and SL3) no longer are supported and you can only use them with Scratch-Live (no Serato-DJ)...

@Jam Burglar You need to buy some orange acid based cleaning fluid to get rid of that sticky surface. It's a known phenomenon...

What a shame. Is there a way to transfer the images to another host and then modify all the image-links from the forum via some sort of update-statement?

We use it whenever we can't find info on the web regarding coding. For example we still use SharePoint 2019 on premise. Most articles in the web are now about SharePoint 2019 Live (the cloud version of SharePoint 2019) and finding stuff about 2019 on premise is a bitch to find. Ask that freaking ChatGPT and that thing is providing only 2019 on premise infos, because you tell him so.

He was Q's mentor for a while I thought. Other than that he and MMM came up with the name ISP and he was touring with Herbie Hancock...

I used to play Afterburner in the arcades back in the day. Wasn't Afterburner a Sega title? Anyways I'd certainly like to have one of these in my crib...

LMFAO. Disk and also Flare don't seem to have that good of a relationship with Q. DPSM is one of my favorite mixtapes. I still bump that in my car from time to time (especially the Spidey intro is super dope along with the Tom Sawyer juggling).

Johny Juice Rusado used to post on funkshitup and Asis... PE to me was the blueprint for Hip-Hop. That's what I was fed and that's how I wan't my hip-hop to be. Knowledge wisdom and understanding and not hey look how I can afford champagne and a Gucci suit. A lot of my punk and heavy metal buddies from the village also were digging PE cause Hank Shocklee was using a lot of heavy metal samples (he used to work in a record shop who carried a lot of heavy metal) and not "just" funk and jazz.

PE number one in Switzerland

I used to have around 7 super active turntablists around my ass. We used to scratch and produce/perform scratch music which was the greatest of times. Now I have 1 left (all the others still cut but not really regularly). But I still have a studio together with 4 peeps (most of them make beats and love to play too much poker) and my nuclear-bunker-turned-into-a-studio at home where I cut. So every Tuesday and Friday I'm either scratching or make beats on my MPC2Kxl

From all my scratching buddies or those who used to scratch, none of them got into Portablism but one. But that one guy was following every trend of Scratching/Turntablism (in a good and bad way). So he's also one of the few people I've met that had a QFO. And when CUNTrollers became a thing, he was also on it. So no wonder in my buds case, that he would go out and buy one of the portable turntables... If I want to have cut at the lake, I'll pack up my compressor, the JVC-Soundtube-Blaster, a PDX with an Vestax 06 and Mini-Disc-Player.

Wow these mini-Pinball machines look great. I've always dreamed of having the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" pinball machine. But even nowadays these fuckers are super expensive and maintenance costs also a lot. As I got still around 6 XP-PCs in the house (as media players), I play the old pinball game that comes with the OS (i think it's called pinball wizard)...

I'm not sure if they already started. My family is in the Ivory Coast consuming Netflix, my mother in law (also in the Ivory Coast in another household) and I out of Switzerland are all using the same account and now since last week-end it ain't working no more for me... Anyways I'm happy they provide option 2. I have Netflix since the get-go (my wife wanted one). Never really bothered watching it up until Covid. So I have periods where I only watch Netflix (some series are aight and some good documentaries) and YouTube and sometimes I just watch movies (torrents or via Blue Ray). What I stopped completely is cable tv...