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Ancient Termites

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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.

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.