2007 _ ends with show #15.
:: over! :: controltochaos.ca ended with show #15. past collaborators included fishead & john burke. this project is maintained by tobias.dj / & shall resurrect itself when the time is right.
STATEMENT of the TECHNICS
We are in favour of the turntable arts. Fastforwarding into the future requires spinning back through a neglected past. Today's musical fashion statements appear all the more questionable when juxtaposed with obscure & neglected waxsonics. DJing is a specific art. It aspires to (techno)turntablism. Beatmatching is not a problem to be overcome. It is the basis for all that follows; it sets the tone for skill. Turntablism is not only about the scratch, but consists of the cut, juggling, EQ, placement, timing; flow, set, movement, trajectory; conceptechnics and sonography. Turntablism is about repurposing tactile technology in an improvisational and rigorous fashion. It is about discipline and practice, attention, concentration. It prerequisites historical resampling. It loops narratology. It dreams of surreal zones of autonomous encounter ..
