Re: (idm) Musician's favorites lists

From Jeffrey Burk
Sent Tue, Nov 4th 1997, 01:27

Sho Kuwamoto wrote:

> Greg earle wrote:
> > Oh, also, RDJ's list and Mike P.'s list both contained
> >
> > >      * Return of the DJ's
> >
> > which Richard described as "music from California ... it's avant-garde
> > Hip-Hop, taking it to another extreme with a lot of excessive scratching
> > and cutting up".  Anyone know more about this thing?  Sorta almost sounds
> > like Kid Koala (who, along with Coldcut, were fucking amazing last Friday
> > night in San Francisco).
>
> "Return of the DJ" and "Return of the DJ II" are two double
> packs on Bomb Records out of San Francisco. Both are
> phenomenal. Production is heavy on the scratching, with each
> track feeling like a snippet of a hip hop mixtape, ala
> qbert or kid koala.
>

speaking of san francisco check out the music listings at the fabric8 web site
[www.fabric8.com] they have some very cool bay area homegrown funky
label/artists with reviews [and its really a well made website too]. while
you're there check out the Krazy Terbo Ted guy. hes a riot. his music is a
wacked out pastiche of house/acid/techno/electro sounding weirdness.

-jeffreyhttp://www.formstudio.com/thesesubjects/list.html