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First Look! 3 turntables, 3 minutes, 3 mixers
🕑 Added 2020-08-20 20:30:46 +0000 UTCHere's a Patreon early-bird exclusive for you. The track "Skanky Panky" from the Some Of My Best Friends Are DJs album. Performed and filmed live this afternoon in my studio in one take.
I don't always consider how I'm going to perform certain tracks live when I'm recording in the studio. I just kind of keep working until the track's finished and then leave the figuring out of the live performance part until closer to the tour.
When that album was released we did a tour called Short Attention Span Audio Theater around the world. I enlisted my friends DJ P-Love and DJ Jester to join me on stage so that we could play and assemble the album tracks live on 8 turntables. I made these tool records so that we could perform the track live with the duties for bass, drums, choruses and solos split between the 3 of us. It was fun times, lots of running around from turntable station to station and reloading turntables in time for the chord changes and cues.
But alas, we are in a pandemic, and DJ P-Love is in New York and DJ Jester is in Austin. So we'll have to wait to get the turntable band back together.
So I tried to do a version of the track alone on 3 turntables and mixer.
Okay but I thought you said 3 mixers?
Well, what you're watching is a one-take performance and that INCLUDES the camera switching which Corinne is doing live on 2 video mixers (one video mixer per screen) blending 7 camera angles. Nothing was edited or faded in post. So if you think I'm multi-tasking, she's the one who's really burning it up on this one! Give it up for Corinne! Who is a set designer by trade and who prior to this pandemic had never even used a video mixer before, but now with the weekly Music To Draw To streams and afternoons like this, she can now add VJ to her resume. LOL!
Enjoy!
Eric
PS: You'll notice that the slipmat clung to the record and came off of the platter at 2:25. This happens more often than you would think. Back in the Bullfrog days I used to bring some Static Guard spray to keep this from happening at shows. But I don't bother with that on the home turntables. Today I somehow managed to realign the mat and reload the turntable with the next record in time for the next cue. Yay!
PPS: My favorite part of this video besides Corinne's rad camera mixing/switching skills, is the part where I walk down the fake staircase at the end. HAAAAA!
Comments
Mark Chernesky
Fantastic. The grin on your face carries through the entire track. So fun.
Oslo Zeimantz
This will go down in history as a song that stands alone, but in this strange MOwax era of not trap or rap (Eric you are classically trained in Jazz styling rite). that was a whiff of fresh air. I still call this devolved turntablism, but its really sounds from that great era of trip hop. that if you were alive for, was instrumental in shaping us all. I miss that era so much, I just wanna crawl inside a Morchebba album. lol
