VIDEO: B.Two presents OUR FUTURE

Another cracking scratch performance from B.Two, once again demonstrating not only mad skills, but also high production values too.

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We like B.Two videos around these parts. It’s not so much the skills (which are off the scale), or the custom gear (that’s a Vestax PMC-05 IV in case you didn’t recognise it in white), but is definitely about the high production values, and specifically the locations.

There’s nothing more to add, so watch and enjoy.

Mark Settle
Mark Settle

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57 Comments

  1. “New era has begun.”
    mmmm… No. The same lacks on key mixing (the vocals ie), bizarre skills with a bit more “musicality” but not best than C2C or Scratch Bandits Crew from the public POV so fail to become a “game changer” or whatever he thinks will move “mainstream mentality” (which rules the market).

    Nice try almost but lost in timespace… Waiting for true turntable musicians over “skill madness” (it could applied to controllerism, finger drumming and even bizarreboxing).

    It’s (still?) all about the music.

    PS: I expect negative votes even I was trying to be constructive but I can’t. If you believe this is “new” or “mindblow” you maybe should consider being yourself lost in spacetime too, sadly…

    • Right. I feel the same way about a Picasso painting, yet he’s considered to be a creative, artistic genius. Not trying to say this young fella is a Picasso by any stretch of the imagination, just trying to say it’s all really subjective if you think about it. But I appreciate your take and opinion, just don’t agree with you.

  2. Production value was good, but it was not very musical. I cannot see a non-scratch dj or anyone for that matter enjoying this video. It lacked flow, he kept going off on tangents. It sounded more like a practice session trying to figure out what he would do in the video.

    • Oh well, he IS a scratch DJ – not that surprising that it may be marketed towards the scratch community. As a parallel, I’m a craft brewer – I don’t make beer for the masses, I make beer for those that appreciate the finer things in beer.

  3. Great set, worthy of a DMC champion (*reads that he is an Australian champion*). Nice musicality, great variation of skills, awesome scratching. Couldn’t disagree more with the comments below.

  4. For everyone who’s a critic in the comments: Post your videos. Lets see what you can do. Everyones so quick to criticize about the technicalities as if they have validity to do so. Enjoy and embrace the skill and show positive support. Take the headline with a grain of salt.

    • It’s not about “bad” almost IMO but it is most related to “new”. There are tons of good djs out there, some of them not turntablist too. It doesn’t make it newer or worst so claiming it isn’t real (to reality no to posse).
      The point is: without ranting (even it wasn’t pretended as it) this entry will have few comments. Take a look the last ones and only these which start a debate have more than 10 (?) comments.
      It is agreement? No. It is lack of interest in turntablism at “new” era (or nowadays better said because I don’t believe there is nothing called new era)

      It is not necessary to post videos becoming a scratch master to point the truth. Is just right the opposite, so much practicing left people lost in their ethnocentric POV and create in them (me included of course) an unnecessary weight of “#realdjing” and “#neweras” trying to return the golden era which has gone in “turntable-ism” form (but maybe it is still here in something new, not necessary controllerism…)

    • It’s not about “bad” almost IMO but it is most related to “new”. There are tons of good djs out there, some of them not turntablist too. It doesn’t make it newer or worst so claiming it isn’t real (to reality no to posse).
      The point is: without ranting (even it wasn’t pretended as it) this entry will have few comments. Take a look the last ones and only these which start a debate have more than 10 (?) comments.
      It is agreement? No. It is lack of interest in turntablism at “new” era (or nowadays better said because I don’t believe there is nothing called new era)

      It is not necessary to post videos becoming a scratch master to point the truth. Is just right the opposite, so much practicing left people lost in their ethnocentric POV and create in them (me included of course) an unnecessary weight of “#realdjing” and “#neweras” trying to return the golden era which has gone in “turntable-ism” form (but maybe it is still here in something new, not necessary controllerism…)

      http://www.skrat.ch
      http://fffff.at/scratch-markup-language-sml/

      • That’s a good point-“Nothing new” you’ll appreciate what mr. Lee said on this, and I’m paraphrasing “only when humans have something different than two arms and two legs will we see a new style of fighting” which again brings me back to my view that Yes, the equipment we use DOES determine the sounds we make. If we are truly ever going to move past the “old” turntablism(if we even want/need to) then we will most certainly need some new equipment to do it on. We’ve tried controllers, which frankly stink. So now we must keep looking. The core of this progression should be a spinning platter.

        • Right and in addition we should consider about -ism itself as a golden jail which separate us in “styles” more than glue us in human kind as artists.

          Every time we try to “tag” or “label” something we fail cristalizing what was forever flowing… Turntablism, Controllerism, Tooltablism? Just a name, a circle without circumference. If it limitate oneself to be freedom expression of the Life then just drop it and walk on. Nobody is going to live for yourself so don’t let nobody to decide for yourself what is real or right or fun… Even myself of course!

          Just look at the moon my friend…

        • One of the things I’ve been thinking about is a turntable with sensors that “perceive” what you’re doing. Particularly while scratching; let’s say like how you see a lot of people doing a release then instantly hitting a beat grid style effect. What if the turntable could sense that you just released from a scratch and apply the effect all by itself. Or like if you could tell the turntable “when I do a scribble, initiate a loop, of a certain length at a certain cue point” I don’t know, whatever you want, but the general idea is that the turntable senses movements and responds accordingly.

  5. before people get butthurt and cry like babies over opinions but this lacked FLOW!!!

    1) You dont need to be technical as a DJ, just stay on point and make it funky. (technicality is a nice bonus but ONLY when executed properly)

    2) ease down and bring in the funk then girls will like it too, dont forget where this so called artform came from.

    3) this is a GREAT video (but only in terms of video production quality)

    4) don’t be mad DJ boys, it’s JUST an opinion, next time ill MUTE the sound if i ever watch it again cause frankly i couldnt bare this *** for longer than 2 mins.

    5) Do DJs really need to push buttons and try to recreate originals off key? nope!

    My 5 cents….don’t cry or reply because if ya’ll love this ish then i have no problem with that :)

  6. before people get butthurt and cry like babies over opinions but this lacked FLOW!!!

    1) You dont need to be technical as a DJ, just stay on point and make it funky. (technicality is a nice bonus but ONLY when executed properly)

    2) ease down and bring in the funk then girls will like it too, dont forget where this so called artform came from.

    3) this is a GREAT video (but only in terms of video production quality)

    4) don’t be mad DJ boys, it’s JUST an opinion, next time ill MUTE the sound if i ever watch it again cause frankly i couldnt bare this *** for longer than 2 mins.

    5) Do DJs really need to push buttons and try to recreate originals off key? nope!

    My 5 cents….don’t cry or reply because if ya’ll love this ish then i have no problem with that :)

    • Name a recent DJ of this calibre that doesn’t ‘push buttons’. It’s not 1988 anymore, times move on. I still love watching THAT dj set from DJ David and THAT set from Cash Money, both winning DMC performances but if companies design products that allow you to expand the artform, why not!? I gotta ask, who do you rate nowadays as you don’t like anything posted on DJ worx. C’mon Selekta, gave us a name.

      • i wasnt talking about DMC history, im mean if youre going to do a set with new technology then make someting less sloppy and something that has a better flow and a little more funk.

        this was pretty lame imo, i might as well listen to an EDM set

        • I listen to EDM sets occasionally and I don’t remember hearing many of the DJs transforming and beat juggling. It’s a TURNTABLIST SET! B.Two is a TURNTABLIST! If you want funk, try Kenny Dope or Chris Read, they put together great sets. I just don’t understand your problem here. This is a world class turntablist demonstrating his skills, of which he has in abundance. You may not like his flow or the tracks used but if you are going to call it ‘sloppy’ I’m going to ask you (again) to put up some of your work so we can understand the benchmark by which you measure DJ skills.

          • its sloppy, i know from years of experience doing turntablism gigs..i just don’t understand why people get so upset over opnions.

            if you like this *** then all good for you but im not into this nonsense unless its dope

          • you obviously qualify for the crybaby factor as pointed out in my initial post

            you call it decent, why isn’t this “great”? as i said before the video quality is great but not the actual performance.

    • I think what you’re talking bout goes way way back. The funk in hip hop and subsequently turntablism my was lost when gangsta rap came around, and all of a sudden “being tough” was better than “being cool” and we are still seeing the effects of that.

  7. Very nice. I thought the transitions were done extremely well, both physically and the sound, and it built up nicely with a fun arc.
    I’m not a big fan of what is commonly called tone-play if it’s done to simply recreate an original, yet in this instance it was done as a mix/sort of transition which is very creative, and something we should see more of.

    I’m also reminded that playing the pitch fader is still a good way to coax a greater variety of sound from the tt.(possibly as I’ve suggested before, building tt’s in the same size frame but with smaller platters might allow the pitch fader to be moved closer to the Dj, to allow even more interaction)

  8. Very nice. I thought the transitions were done extremely well, both physically and the sound, and it built up nicely with a fun arc.
    I’m not a big fan of what is commonly called tone-play if it’s done to simply recreate an original, yet in this instance it was done as a mix/sort of transition which is very creative, and something we should see more of.

    I’m also reminded that playing the pitch fader is still a good way to coax a greater variety of sound from the tt.(possibly as I’ve suggested before, building tt’s in the same size frame but with smaller platters might allow the pitch fader to be moved closer to the Dj, to allow even more interaction)

  9. Funny enough that the video is called OUR FUTURE but he’s using equipment that is no longer in production and by brands no longer in the business. OK I got it – Our future is to use discontinued equipment rather than today’s rubbish.

    • Technics is still in business, they will launch a new 1200 deck in 2016, the question is will it be the MK7 or strictly a hifi turntable.

      Maybe they will release 2 models, 1 with and 1 without a pitch control, time will tell

  10. That was a nice video production, but I wasn’t sure what was going on in various points, as transitions were coming in irrationally and out of beat. Also, either the video edit got rough or bars got lost too in these transitions. Not sure if genius or dumb.

  11. Looks like another episode of The CutSelekta Show is taking place, where our star critiques the latest scratch promo, and the studio audience generally boos and tells him to put up or shut up. Yawn.

    Time to refocus people. Talk about the video, and not what one ever vocal member of the community thinks about the video.

    To CutSelekta — I openly invite you to write an article for DJWORX. You obviously have strong opinions about what you see, so here’s an opportunity to write a longer piece to articulate them. Or perhaps post a performance video to silence the people who call you out when you express said opinions. Up for it?

  12. That actually was nowhere as bad as I was expecting based on the comments. “Game changer”? Nope, but I’ve certainly heard much worse (the pizza breaks video with Four Color Zack comes to mind, I don’t know if he was having an off day or what).

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