Live at Future Primitive Sound Session [Import, Live]

Cut Chemist, Shortkut, Live at Future Primitive Sound Session (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 7, 1998)
• Original Release Date: May 5, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Future Primitive
• Run Time: 70.00 minutes
• ASIN: B000006EQ2
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,957 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 70-minute continuous mix

2. Tiny Bells

3. Life As A Shorty Shouldnt Be So Rough

4. Open Close

5. No Mistakes In This Number Song Remix

6. Lesson 6 The Lecture

7. Fats Comets Tackhead Beat

8. Chuck D Counts Down To Armageddon

9. King Kumoniwanaleia

10. Ready On The Right

11. Solid Squealer

12. Biggety Balls Monkey The Real Deal

13. Lets Dance On Planet Rock

14. Werd

15. Moonbase Alpha

16. Prince Of The Beats

17. You Are Getting Scratchy

18. Cak Ca Ba Ba

19. Slow Fresh

20. Are You Ready

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 1998

In a year in which DJs asserted that, yes, they too are musicians, it was the duo of Cut Chemist (a turntablist in Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli) and Shortkut (a member, along with DJ Qbert and Mix Master Mike, of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz), spinning live at a San Francisco party that put the proof in the pudding. Mixing albums from across the decades, some familiar and some obscure, the duo create something entirely--and undeniably--their own. --Randy Silver

Product Description

This is the one that started it all! The first officially released recordings from the legendary Future Primitive sessions in San Francisco, which later gave birth to 'Brainfreeze' & everything that followed. Here Cut Chemist battles Shortkut in a ferocio

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars like butta on yo' breakfast toast, December 15, 1999

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[e-mail] (montreal, canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at Future Primitive Sound Session (Audio CD)

i already owned mixmaster mike's "anti-theft device". while that record was decent, (and i certainly don't doubt his skillz as a turntablist), i found it too cerebral and experimental to really be able to get DOWN to: it wasn't quite as stereo-friendly (as opposed to live) as i would have liked. so i was skeptical about the tightness of shortkut and cut chemist. WOW! within 2 minutes of this album, i was outta my chair and popping windmills (in my head, at least). terrific. i recognize one of the tracks from the J5 record, the one with the science professor reciting the elements ("niacin: NH+1"). for some reason, there's nothing cooler than sampling old white males. the only flaw of this album (if you want to call it a flaw) is that i wasn't sure which DJ was doing what. maybe this is a good thing? bottom line, if you like sampling, addidas flailing in the air in a clockwise formation, and appreciate turntablism at its finest, you will be doing yourself a solid in picking this bad boy up.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Classic - REALLY, December 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Live at Future Primitive Sound Session (Audio CD)

Why is this recording a classic? Aside from the music itself, this album will be remembered in the underground archives as a classic for a reason stated in it's title: Cut Chemist meets Shortkut. This technically superb vinyl-shredding session was UNREHEARSED- Cut Chemist and Shortkut had NEVER met prior to this performance. And though their set starts off with a bit of back-and-forth warm ups, the two culprits quickly begin interacting like they had been performing together for years. Without knowing that the two had never met each other before this performance, let alone rehearsed the set, one would have no trouble believing that this recording was the result of a well-planned, thought out collaboration. And as for the music itself, Cut Chemist (formerly of Ozzomatli and currently one-half of the DJ team behind The Jurrasic Five) and Shortkut (member of both The Invisible Skratch Piklz and Beat Junkies turntable crews) combine to create a very compatible mix of old-school and new-school hip-hop and soul tunes, beats, and breaks, top-notch scratching and beat-mixing/juggling, and a wide variety of comical, scientific, and downright out-of-the-blue vocal samples. This is an outrageously clever, fresh, on-point head bobbing DJ set. If you're checking out this album, you probably have some disposition toward hip-hop and/or DJ mixes/live sets. I say to you: This one is a MUST have.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Turntablism at its finest, April 19, 2001

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Douglas C. Reinhardt (Lake Forest, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at Future Primitive Sound Session (Audio CD)

This album is quite simply, mind blowing. It should be handed out to people who are getting into real hip-hop, to show them what a real DJ does at a show. Also the album is a nice treat for those who haven't been forunate enough to see DJ Shortkut or Cut Chemist live at a show in person, let alone, see the two of them battle live in person. Actually, the album kind of ruined my experince of seeing Cut Chemist battling Shortkut in person because the album made me want to see more than the alotted twenty five minutes, I wish they could have gone on for hours and once you starting listening to this record, you will too want to listen to it for hours on end.