From Michael Upton Sent Mon, May 10th 1999, 16:15
From Michael Upton Sent Mon, May 10th 1999, 16:15
I'm surprised no one brought this up, since he was chatted about on here last week, but he played last Thursday in London, at one of the (AFAIK excellent) Scratch nights at La Scala. He was quite unbelievably good. I've tended to dismiss turntablism as just silly shows to illustrate the performer's technical virtuosity, but MMM was definitely heaps of fun, his beats ruled, and the results of whatever he was upto sounded great. I have to admit that he had me laughing out loud near the start of his set, because he seemed so talented as to be absurd. Sadly, the biggest applause of the night actually went to the Jungle Bros when they dropped that jump-up version of 'Jungle Brother'. Nads. It was a slightly alienating moment as the rest of the room went ballistic to music I hate and so I naturally fled. Michael (Is it a faux pas to quote the Smiths while reviewing hiphop? :-) Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com