I know that there’s a world of Youtube videos of people scratching with extreme off the hook skills. But there are just a handful that fuse traditional skills with modern technology quite like John Type does. We’ve previously shown off his controltablism and cue point techniques, but this time he’s made a video that shows off Ableton’s Link in a turntablist environment.
Using the iconic Amen Brother break as a base layer, John cleverly weaves tracks that have sampled it as well as Lynn Collin’s “Think” with an Ableton Push, Vestax PDX turntable, and Pioneer DJM-S9, all tempo matched courtesy of the Link technology.
I love this. It adopts a very hands-on approach via the turntable, but works so well because of new technology. This obviously condenses a lot into a very short demo, but as tools for a creative DJ to have in their arsenal, this kind of approach is very clever.
Once again, hats off to John Type. Keep up the really good work. For a more detailed breakdown, check out John’s writeup here.
This routine of his is HOT!!!
Agreed. Would absolutely love to see more of this integrated tech become common-place in DJ sets.
Love this. But as a Traktor/Ableton user for DJing, Ableton Link is completely useless since you can’t reset the phrasing within the system. If you use a 2 beat loop, for example, it takes the phrasing out of sync and then you’re stuck. Resetting Link will make things go haywire, which isn’t usable in a live setting.
So Serato plays nicer with Ableton via the link than used together with Traktor?
I have no idea, I’ve never used it. It probably has the same problem.
Looks like a lot of fun. Going to have to rig up something similar tonight with the Trigger Finger and have a go. Thanks for the inspiration!
Very cool! Definitely was NOT expecting that Squarepusher drop! Pretty awesome.
just play it normal speed dude.. all this pitched up d&b is so 1997..the smurfs could still be enjoying it.. buttons dont mean anything compared to the original FUNK
Um, go listen to Come On My Selector. That is how fast the original song is.
Cool but enough with trying to label everything everyone does as some new musical revoloution. Miditablism? Portatablism? Portamidism? Turnportamidicontrollerism? Seriously, people just do what they do for crying out loud and stop trying to act like they’ve invented the wheel.
Call Babu and said him about turntablism xD
https://youtu.be/fILXLNhujtU?t=8m19s
I think I saw it too but you know… the scratch movie etc.
The point to me is “name should help people to understand but usually builds a wall where it should be a bridge”.
I tried to explain it with Tooltablism (even it sounds similar) but very few caught it and at last is just a name… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/39be69bdcce03fdfb22531181524a8926cb7a7007071321c7e80d7f74f515e7e.jpg
all this ablism was introduced when the rapper and industry started to ignore the DJ in hiphop and thus people were to create their own genre.
for crying out loud lets take it back to DJing and work together with MCs, the seperation wasnt a good thing.
I agree in going back to basics.
At this point of technology what do you suggest to do?
I’m too outside being more a producer than dj from the beggining to figure a solution for the actual moment by myself.
Thanks for sharing thoughts.
Do we dare call this the new nextlevelness?