DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Kid Koala Sell Hard
Unfortunately, I have to hit the road for another NorCal trip, so I am going to miss this insanely rewarding team-up of the finest turntablists in hip-hop tonight in Los Angeles. But at least I got a chance to write about them to get others going in my place. You gotta do what you gotta do.
For those interested in Morphizm's past coverage of these titans, check here, here and here. And look out below for the video introduction to the Hard Sell, courtesy of Meat Beat Manifesto's Ben Stokes. It's a vinyl riot:
Grounded in Sound
[Scott Thill, LA Weekly]
"Touching vinyl is a guilty pleasure," L.A. DJ heavyweight Cut Chemist tells me by phone from the Chicago hotel room where he's chilling before sound check for the Hard Sell Tour, his hat-trick collaboration with NorCal's equally storied DJ Shadow. "What can I say? Shadow and I like to buy records."
They're not alone. In 1998, when turntablism was at its zenith, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist — or Josh Davis and Lucas McFadden, as they are known to their mothers — merged their love of lost funk and soul 45s into an improvised two-mix set called Brainfreeze, which went on not just to become a collector's item but to set the bar so high for scratch fiends that it has yet to be matched. By anyone besides the two, that is, who reunited in 2001 for a similar affair called Product Placement. Like its predecessor, it was mashed live on the spot with no edits or do-overs and immortalized in a limited pressing, and soon became a collector's staple as well. Product Placement upped the ante on Brainfreeze with a national tour that took Cut and Shadow's turntablist skills straight to the people.
And now they're doing it again on the Hard Sell Tour, which launched in Toronto on January 30 and winds up its American throw-down on February 15 at the Wiltern, before jetting across the pond to the U.K., France, Germany and parts outward. Kicking off with a hilarious explanatory video created by Meat Beat Manifesto's Ben Stokes (a.k.a. Tino), which apes the educational films of the 1950s, Shadow and Cut's third iteration has been given a serious upgrade... MORE @ LA WEEEKLY
VIDEO: THE HARD SELL TOUR
For those interested in Morphizm's past coverage of these titans, check here, here and here. And look out below for the video introduction to the Hard Sell, courtesy of Meat Beat Manifesto's Ben Stokes. It's a vinyl riot:
Grounded in Sound[Scott Thill, LA Weekly]
"Touching vinyl is a guilty pleasure," L.A. DJ heavyweight Cut Chemist tells me by phone from the Chicago hotel room where he's chilling before sound check for the Hard Sell Tour, his hat-trick collaboration with NorCal's equally storied DJ Shadow. "What can I say? Shadow and I like to buy records."
They're not alone. In 1998, when turntablism was at its zenith, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist — or Josh Davis and Lucas McFadden, as they are known to their mothers — merged their love of lost funk and soul 45s into an improvised two-mix set called Brainfreeze, which went on not just to become a collector's item but to set the bar so high for scratch fiends that it has yet to be matched. By anyone besides the two, that is, who reunited in 2001 for a similar affair called Product Placement. Like its predecessor, it was mashed live on the spot with no edits or do-overs and immortalized in a limited pressing, and soon became a collector's staple as well. Product Placement upped the ante on Brainfreeze with a national tour that took Cut and Shadow's turntablist skills straight to the people.
And now they're doing it again on the Hard Sell Tour, which launched in Toronto on January 30 and winds up its American throw-down on February 15 at the Wiltern, before jetting across the pond to the U.K., France, Germany and parts outward. Kicking off with a hilarious explanatory video created by Meat Beat Manifesto's Ben Stokes (a.k.a. Tino), which apes the educational films of the 1950s, Shadow and Cut's third iteration has been given a serious upgrade... MORE @ LA WEEEKLY
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