
The Peter Piper routine on tape — the Scrubboard strikes again
One way to test your turntablist mettle is to copy a known routine. So Jeremy Bell has decided to attempt the classic Peter Piper set on his Scrubboard.
One way to test your turntablist mettle is to copy a known routine. So Jeremy Bell has decided to attempt the classic Peter Piper set on his Scrubboard.
Jeremy Bell contevolves his cassette tape based ScrubBoard scratch looper. This time he's hooked with some singers for a live peformance.
Great things come from left field thinking. And boosted by the praise for previous versions of his cassette tape scratching ScrubBoard, Jeremy Bell has toiled on a more finished prototype, that brings looping and sampling to the... tapetable?
In a world filled with all manner of next level DJ technology, Jeremy Bell keeps pushing forward with his cassette tape based ScrubBoard. Here's an update.
Off the back of their QRATES vinyl pressing service comes QASSETTES... can you guess what it is? Yes — people still want tapes for some mad reason.
Cassettes for scratching? Been there - done that. But it's not been done in quite the same way that Jeremy Bell is proposing with his ScrubBoard Kickstarter project. It's a unique take on the idea involves samples on tape, and moving a cassette player head back and forth, all controlled from the Seesaw Killswitch.
The original DJ recording medium is the form factor for the Reloop Tape. No chewable media or tabs to knock out and tape over though. Here's our review.
Cassettes are pretty awful, but like most things retro, seemingly cool. Or at least so says the BBC, who have found a small but noticeable rise in sales.