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Shop Vinyl and CDs and complete your collection. A fine introduction to turntablism and the movement's innovators and standards-bearers. Great liner notes that really deconstruct the art of creating music with turntables and invite the reader to understand it in the context of the African drummer, the Shamen and the culture jammer. Booty's cover of Hendrix's "If 6 were 9" is smokin', and Rob Swift kicks and chops his way through martial arts film dialog.

A fine introduction to turntablism and the movement's innovators and standards-bearers.

Though it features artists as current as Prince Paul, DXT and New Kingdom, the album's focus on turntable scratching and a preponderance of relatively simple, monolithic beats make it sound like a period piece. That's not a bad thing, especially when Laswell imbues the proceedings with an up-to-the-minute ambience and a rumbling bass (as in bass guitar, not 808). But the complete absence of rapping - the only thing that keeps this from actually being a hip-hop record - may leave some listeners scratching their heads. Instead, we get a Bootsy Collins cameo (never a problem) and the.

Invasion of the Octopus People" & "One Legged Centipede" are two tracks later on in the album, that are produced and performed by 'Invisibl Skratch Piklz", and their energetic turntable acrobatics, finds a welcome home here, as the fractured and freewheeling music aesthetic that they are renowned for, is fully in evidence here, and the hybrid of furious scratching & a Unified montage of abstract.

A compilation from 1996 highlighting some of the best hip-hop disc jockeys of the day. Features material from Invisibl Skratch Piklz, DJ Krush, Rob Swift, New Kingdom, Valis, and Bootsy Collins among many. This was released on Bill Laswell's Axiom label via Island Records.