ON sunday, the second day P-Sticks visited the Namm show, I witnessed some
amazing acts of turntablistic deformations.
This was seen by many a passerby. Located in the Numark booth was
circuit city salesman and turntablist destroyer Eddie Def. He was
selling the Numark wares. The Numark
booth, Mr. Def informed
me, was the only booth with two
wheels of steel and a Numark rip off of the Vestax 05 pro mixer,
user friendly. The only booth with playable turntables and
mixer. It was crazy. Any average day joe could bust on up and
lay down their own jacked crab techniques. I myself watched as Eddie
Def and his culprit on vinyl, Cue tear out mass crazy noises, cuts, juggles,
and
destroyed
sounds.
Then after awhile, when things
quieted down, P-Sticks jumped
on up to the one and the two to flex his skills
for his fellow Djs. P-Sticks laid down some traditional transformer
cuts and a few busted up lazy crab scrapes. Look out DMC dj competition.
Across
the way in the Vestax booth, there was an 8X11 black and white photo of
the most intense looking group of turntablists. With heads shaven,
they resembled the rogue warrior monks of the Shaolin temple.
The photo was of the Invisibl Skratch PiKlz.
there was a list of times when these mad skilled djs were performing.
P-Sticks stayed around waiting for their appearance so he could see something
he has only witnessed via videos. There was five Piklz in attendance
in the Vestax booth, Yoga Frog, he was mCing the whole exhibition, Shortkut,
D-Styles, and Q-bert. They all mixed, cut, and traded amongst themselves
with precision like some crazy futuristic
robot awakening from a deep hibernation.
Each one traded off one
another, taking and waiting their turns,
showing their talents. Shortkut demonstrated
finesse on two turntables.
Shortkut and D-styles did a little call and response routine while
Yoga Frog cracked jokes and explained various
facts about turntablism, the Piklz, and the fabulous Vestax product line
out on the showroom floor. Q-Bert then emerged
and gave a scratch tutorial. Yoga Frog explained the roots of scratching,
from the grand wizard theodore to Dj Rhettmatic. He also told of
the various techniques of scratching and who invented them. Like the Transformer
and how it was created by 1988 dmc world champion Dj Cash Money, or the
Flare technique, invented in 1994 by the mild mannered DJ FLare.
Then Q-Bert would demonstrate the technique. It was quite fantastic.
Yoga Frog hooked P-Sticks up with Q-Bert's album "DJ Q-bert Wave twisters
episode 7 million: Sonic wars within the protons." Then P-Sticks
talked with Q-Bert and D-Styles for a little while. They were nice
enough to pose with P-Sticks for a touristy photo. P-Sticks ducked
down so the shoot would come out better.
Look
at P-Sticks with a couple of Piklz. The white guy is P-Sticks.
The guy next to him
is the ferocious Dj Q-Bert. The monk like guy next to Q-Bert is sifu
D-styles.