Turntablelism

May 26, 2006 on 8:11 pm by Thomas | In Berlin Scene, DJ mixes, Music, Stylewalker |

DJ Kid FreshKid FreshWhen I was younger, I used to spend hours with the turntables, trying to juggle, to scratch, do routines, be a true turntablelist. The biggest success: winning a pair of headphones at a local competition. Man, I was proud!

But basically, that was just good practice for playing in parties and in clubs later, I got very fast with the records and it was always cool to introduce some tunes with a little *scratch*.

In the end, I never got a real turntablelist but I still got love for the game. So I was delighted when I met Kid Fresh, playing at Yaneq’s record release party. Like me, he is from Göttingen, we used to hang out back then (in the 90ies) and I admired his techniques a lot.

Later, he got a multi-ITF worldchampion, also won the DMC and many other contests; solo and with his crew, the Lordz of Fitness. After that, he made a career as a club DJ, playing the big and small and shiny and dirty ones with a irresistible blend of hiphop, funk, pop and whatever mix of classics and clubbouncers. Like a maniac he is changing the records leaving the crowd in a hysteric mood. By the way: he is doing all that with Rane’s Serato system, also called “Scratch Live“. A vinyl-feel-like control for audiofiles, just like final scratch.

Wednesday night was one great party with lots of cheering and dancing and I think he enjoyed to play for such an open-minded crowd. I will try to show some pictures later, in the meantime, let me guide you to some fascinating turntable art.

A 60 minutes Kid Fresh mix including all sorts of music and skills from White Stripes to Dizzie Rascal to M.I.A. Sure it’s funky, not only for turntablelism-lovers. Here’s the tracklist)

A really good video of his crew Lordz of Fitness from the ITF world championship 2003

Another fascinating beat juggling routine of his teammmate Rafik

And finally, I found this crazy Japanese DJ Kentano on YouTube.

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  1. haha, hey thomas !!
    das war ja ne kurze begegnung letzten mittwoch - warst dann ja ratzfatz weg =)
    der club hat mir in der tat sehr viel spass gemacht.
    is ja echt mal paar jahre her… wat treibste so, sag ma an !

    Comment by Kid Fresh — 30/5/2006 #

  2. [...] name is Kid Fresh and I already wrote about him. Looking at the pictures on the partyblog accompanying the [...]

    Pingback by Stylewalker - The long tail » Pimpin’ aint easy - from Hong Kong to Berlin — 11/9/2008 #

  3. ohnoooooo i missed kid fresh!! so ein mist, ehrlich…hab ich mich doch so über den winterinshanghaimix gefreut grmmmmllll…grmmllll…grmml und hier den mix gibts ooch nicht und samurai.fm gibts nur als stream….so ein mist….ach mensch…jetzt soll der tag gut werden?? ich weiss nicht….grrrrrrrr

    btw, der link oben geht nicht, hab den mix aber trotzdem gefunden…aber wie gesagt nur als stream

    Comment by BarbNerdy — 17/9/2008 #

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