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LIVE @ THE SP 1200 BOOK PARTY DJ DOOM, LEWIS PARKER, ICE ROCKS, 2011

LIVE @ THE SP 1200 BOOK PARTY MAY 1 2011 @ THE BROOKLYN FIRE PROOF-BROOKLYN N.Y. WE HAD 2 FLIP BOB JAMES “NAUTIUS” RECORD, WITH JUST 10 SEC. OF SAMPLING TIME ON THE SP 1200…. “ENJOY”

the SP 1200 book — http://www.sp1200-thebook.com/

Yesterday i’ve received back via mail the SP-1200 from the lab in Loreto. The run/stop button was broken and it takes a while for the fixing of the part because the switch came from USA. So i’ve got to wait circa 4 months before the machine get repaired.

I’m loading samples from my floppy disks and the machine is running very well.

Days ago i discovered in the sp-1200 forums the existence of a floppy emulator that can read a CF card. The limitation of sample time and number of notes in one song/segment/pattern doesn’t change: only 10 seconds of sampling time divided in four memory chips (max 2,5 seconds per sample). But it can be useful because floppy disks are a bit hard to found in the stores today.

The sound is crazy, fat like hell. I was diggin’ for some glitch noises and founded one big drone (ground loop? i don’t know) in a sample. I added some vinyl samples and drums to make a beat…

GRAP LUVA – 7 Minutes of Sound – SP1200 Beats – Damu The Fudgemunk & Redefinition Records

Grap Luva (formerly of INI) stops by Damu The Fudgemunk’s studio to play some SP1200 Beats and talks about the making of Pete Rock’s “Half Man, Half Amazing.”

http://www.wonkabeats.com

More Brilliant Than The Sun:
Adventures In Sonic Fiction:
Concept Engineered By
Kodwo Eshun

More Brilliant Than The Sun is a machine for travelling at the speed of thought, a probe for drilling into new levels of possibility space. ‘ Its mission is to undermine the concepts this present has of “Health” and “Culture” and to excite mockery and hatred against these hybrid monsters of concepts.’

download e-book — http://www.autistici.org/2000-maniax/texts/Kodwo-Eshun-More-Brilliant-Than-The-Sun-Adventures-in-Sonic-Fiction.pdf

King Of The Beats New York City – the full documentary film
click here to see the entire movie

source http://www.kingofthebeats.com/blog/?p=318

Filmed and Directed by Pritt Kalsi. Here is the full film KOTB NYC 2010 featuring Casanova Rud, Minnesota Money Boss, Psycho Les (the Beatnuts) and TR Love from the Ultramagnetic M.C’s.
This is a film about cultural preservation. Digging Culture, Vinyl culture, Hip Hop culture. In this film some of Hip Hop greatest producers take on the challenge of digging in the crates with a budget of only $40 to find drums and grooves to sample to produce a beat.

This film gives you an insight in to the minds of how a hip hop producer works. what sounds inspire them. Buying records is a habit this is their passion.

As a film maker Pritt makes no money from his films. He is unsponsored and unfunded. All he asks is that support his work by visiting the site and purchasing a record or t-shirt. this is so that Pritt can continue to make these films.

The first single from this film is by Beatnuts Producer Psycho Les, only 300 pressed. support good hip hop. support a culture and movement. thankyou and enjoy.

info — http://www.kingofthebeats.com/blog/

out now

info here: http://www.sp1200-thebook.com/