The turntable auteur and Jurassic 5 DJ prove funk never loses its power as they cut and hack through Afrika Bambaataa’s vintage vinyl
Turntable auteur DJ Shadow has performed conceptual sets with Jurassic 5’s Cut Chemist before; their legendary Product Placement mixtape lifted liberally from jingles and funky commercials. Tonight’s themed set, culled from records belonging to pioneering 70s DJ Afrika Bambaataa, whose Bronx block parties invented hip-hop, is altogether more momentous – a tour of vinyl that, to aficionados of the genre, is as holy and profound as Moses’s stone tablets.
As sleeves from Bambaataa’s record library are projected behind the duo’s six turntables, the ageing B-boys and bedroom DJs in the room murmur: “got … got … need …”. But onstage there’s little fetishisation of the objects themselves, as the duo abandon any kid-gloves reverence and cut and hack through this treasure chest of vinyl with the fluid skill and lunatic joy of seasoned beat-miners.
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by Stevie Chick via Electronic music | The Guardian
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