qwerty south
no use for a witticism
afrika bambaataa (according to miles marshall lewis in 'scars of the soul')
daniele baldelli was pitching disco and electro-pop records right down into a treacly sludge in the late 70s / early 80s. some of his mixtapes make for incredibly incongrous listening: some kosmische cluster record mixed with a thompson twins b-side played at 33 -8, stuff like that.
not sure of the timeline here, i'm sure baldelli wasn't the first dj to play records at the wrong speed, but i'm not sure that's particularly important anyway, it's just an interesting parallel development.
i'd really like to hear some of these, where can you get them?
i'm sure they're online somewhere - i downloaded a few mixes from slsk. if you like i can yousendit a couple of them.
That is what I am wondering too.When were the first decks with pitch-control released anyway?
I think you're right about TN but in my opinion if FG was slowing down or speeding up records using his fingers then he was altering the pitch. Even if he couldn't alter it very far, surely all the principles of beat-mixing are there?"I am too lazy to check it out now, but I know that Terry Noel did not ‘beatmix’, he merely ‘beat-matched’ (playing tunes that are close to each other in tempo). From what I remember reading, Francis Grasso did beatmix, but he didn't change the pitch of the tunes he played, thus he could only mix records that were very close to each other in tempo (which he could match using his fingers). I know this is explained in detail in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, so I get back to you on this one (or some other eager beaver will )."