Re: New DJ Cam: same ole battle records

Nathaniel Rahav (nrahav@ixl.com)
Thu, 28 May 1998 17:26:56 -0400


I agree that in general those same old battle sounds are getting kinda
old - they're great for practice and all, but if you want people to hear you
you gotta come off with some new sounds -
it's like a horn player playing a solo of just scales...

.·´¯`·.¸¸.N·a·t.¸

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Aregood <maregood@comcastpc.com>
To: acid jazz list <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 28, 1998 4:10 PM
Subject: New DJ Cam: same ole battle records

>Anyone like the new Cam? It was talked about briefly a few weeks ago
>(being more on the hip hop side and all). I like it a lot, but one thing
>i found a little lame was the stuff he was scratching over top of it
>all. I'm pretty sick of all the same samples off of all those DJ
>Rectangle and other assorted battle records anyone can get. If you are
>making tracks you should be scratchin' on all sorts of stuff you had to
>dig for and that hasn't been used a million times. Leave the battle
>records to the battle djs. Kid Koala's mixed tape is a perfect example
>of heading through uncharted waters...There are exceptions to the rule
>of course. You hear the Scratch Pickles use one of those battle records
>and they twist that shit around so ass backwards you don't know what's
>happening. It seemed to me Cam's stuff got slightly gratuitous at times.
>He doesn't seem to have those kind of skills in order to showcase em'.
>Don't get me wrong, pick it up, it's fat as hell. I might be biased
>cause i practice with those (same samples) records everyday...
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>Purely my opinion. any opposing?
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