(Source: CTheory)

11/26/2001

[…] I hear no great conceptual divide between various music machines. Whatever means there are available for recording acoustic phenomena or presenting sound, no matter what the source, making sound reproducible and thus variable, all phonographic technologies have the potential to deterritorialize sound and music. Maybe the greatest singular moment in nomadic use (= an act of capturing forces, making a new machinic assemblage of existing machinic formations) of phonographic machinery has been the emergence of hip-hop DJ’ing and the misuse of vinyl records, making a pair of turntables into a nomadic war machine. For a better order flagyl online part of the last century the record remained inactive, a storage capsule of time.

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(Source: Ctheory.net)

4/24/2003
Common talk deserves a walk, the situation’s changed/ everything said from now on has to be rearranged.

— T La Rock

The hiphop DJ is a meta-musician, an author, a programmer, an organizer of recorded fragments and a builder of databases whose talents are uniquely suited to survival and meaningful cultural production in our emerging era of total digital cross-reference.

— David Goldberg

At the dead center of the spiraling galaxy of hiphop culture is the turntable. This is where everything starts: on the grooved surface of a record spinning on the wheels of steel. All truth is here, all meaning — everything that is hiphop…Indeed, an act of pure hiphop devotion might be to let a record play from start to end on a turntable…

— DJ Dusk

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