Wave Twisters, Episode 7 Million: Sonic Wars Within the Protons [SOUNDTRACK]

DJ Qbert

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (November 24, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 2, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Galactic Butt Hair
• ASIN: B00000GNS0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #537,165 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
As the godfather of modern-day turntablism, Qbert has been long overdue for a solo release. Wave Twisters is the obvious brainchild of Qbert's long-term fascination with sound and its malleability: using stacks of eclectic vinyl as his fodder, Qbert creates an album of songs by turning scraps of found sound into everything from rhythm sections to melodic tracks to quirky pieces of dialogue. You don't need to understand the technical complexities of scratching to appreciate it; Wave Twisters is simply the future of the funk--sonic play transformed by an equal mix of aural insanity and genius and put all back together by the hands of a master. --Oliver Wang

Product Description
DJQBert's Wave Twisters (Classic Cassette Tape) - The classic that spawned the movie.

" As you may know by now, this album is a concept album. Not only in story but in things I wanted to do in music as well. I wanted to have a variety of songs offering new and different things from skratch styles, to ways of composing, to ideas that people can make something new out of. At the same time, keeping its story line"

- Qbert

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Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars what hasn't already been said??, January 28, 2005

By	Hot Hands O'Malley "BOOYAKASHA" (With Carmen Sandiego) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wave Twisters, Episode 7 Million: Sonic Wars Within the Protons (Audio CD)

Altough this album came out many years ago, the choas and organized madness that layers this piece still overwhelm even the most hardcore of tablist heads. even to those outside of the scratch community in the more "public music" mindset that appriciate it for the concept album that it is may still not understand the audio of the album unless they accompany that with the dvd film that was spawned by the album. This cd is....for lack of a better comparison, hip hops "Tommy", its "Rocky Horror Picture Show", or even "the Wall" to really praise this piece. To say it so few words, this is not a hip-hop concept album. but rather, it is THE hip-hop EPIC.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Multi-tentacled hip-hop for the 21st Century, February 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Wave Twisters, Episode 7 Million: Sonic Wars Within the Protons (Audio CD)

It's difficult to determine whether this CD is a Qbert solo or another Invisbl Skratch Piklz excursion, but the ISP leader uses the hypothesis of "Attack of the Octopus People" and concocts a truly alien beast.

Listening to Wave Twisters is equivilent to viewing Hanna Barbarea cartoons under the spell of LSD-25. While his take on the DJ standard of scratching over one beat grows thin at times, his love for sci-fi camp and old-school asthetics gives this CD incredible soul.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HIP HOP THAT SHAKES YOUR BRAINSTEM, December 10, 2003

By	The One True "Gordopolis" (Lawrence, KS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wave Twisters, Episode 7 Million: Sonic Wars Within the Protons (Audio CD)

This album rocks intensely, to say the very least. Buy it. It will make all your hip hop dreams come true and destroy any hopes you had of becoming the world's greatest dj in one listen.