Ancient Termites

Phonosycograph Disk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 15, 1998)
• Original Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bomb Hip Hop
• ASIN: B00000DCTA
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,207 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #54 in Music > Dance & DJ > Turntablists

Track Listings

1. To Me It's Scrambled Eggs

2. Holidisk Inn

3. Beaver Clause

4. Polar Bear Sunskreen

5. Elevator Puss Music

6. Bucktooth's Berry's Binge

7. Ducks Decay

8. Exoskeleton

9. Penguin Burial

10. Grab Bag

11. Thinking Room Sculpture

12. Disk Drisks

13. Tayoe The Dealer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tied with Wave Twisters, October 7, 1999

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"retardedgorilla" (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ancient Termites (Audio CD)

The abstract sound of Ancient Termites and DJ Disk may not appeal to non-turntablists and even a lot of turntablists, but it's ingenious anyway. It's obviously not as accessible as the humorous Wave Twisters by Qbert, but Disk creates tracks in a dimension that has never been explored in turntablism. He scratches old pool-hall sounding records on one track and then creates turntable elevator music on another. This album is like nothing else. If you're truly an open-minded music lover, you'll appreciate this.

3.0 out of 5 stars skilled in skraiping and composing, January 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Ancient Termites (Audio CD)

Modern turnatblists have fairly well proven that their technical abilities can often match those of instrumentalists. The next challenge is musical composition and structure; most of the recent discs have failed to cohere (but of course that may be the postmodernist point of it all). DJ DISK's debut takes the turntablist movement just a bit further, as he lays down several tracks that advance through more than a series of samples. "Exoskeleton" and "Thinking Room Sculpture" reveal DISK's ability to "build" an environment from reverb and wah-wah action, then build a piece of music with "skraiping" and a minimum of plundered samples. The usual bizarre humor abounds as well, in "Elevator Puss Music" and "Bucktooth's Berry Binge". DISK has skills and a mind to match.