The Controller One Turntable

Turn tables have always been playable as an instrument. Kinda like a premade loop if you will. While the "Controller One" will add a new dimension to this, I really don't see to many people that use turn tables using it very effectively. Even The Ruckazoid who is playing it in the video had trouble with timing. Not to mention that his "Synth" or keyboard playing abilities are terrible, at least in this video. I'd take a keytar over this anyday...

Now this guy, while it seems very crude is using regular turn tables as an instrument as apposed to just scratching. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y92Scr1i68U

Turntablists have been creating original music on their instrument of choice for decades. This doesn't transform the turntable in to an instrument it simply adds features.

Huh? Wah? The first instrument that allows DJs to actually play music rather than just scratching?

Not the 'first' as scratching is indeed music. Looks like a bias against the art by the poster of this blog entry. I've heard it before. Music is humans making sounds with their voice or via an instrument. That instrument could be a piano, saxophone, turntable & LP or a leaf blower... it really does not matter. If the artist's intent if to create music then that is what it is.

Oh, they teach scratching at Berklee College of MUSIC don't ya know.

This bored me. I was unimpressed after sitting through the repetitiveness of this mediorce DJ. that beat is awful and bland. He does not have the skillz to pay the billz.

This is nothing new. The disc he's spinning just happens to have a musical sequence on it and he's tearing it up like a champ.

well someone obviously doesnt know what the hell theyre talking about.

...and by someone i mean alex.

i dare you to watch these videos and then say these gentlemen arent "playing" music, these djs arent musicians, and turntables arent instruments.

kid koala- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbQRVwmpQU8
dj swamp 96 dmc- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KsQvPS1dWA
qbert playing drums- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKD0dJvaPOU
kentaro- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPutHJ4qCss

but then again, you may not have the eyes to see or the ears to hear.

h8 said he had trouble with timing? hmmmm i believe this was all improvised, if there's no routine, then there's no mess up! i'd really like to see u freestyle this clean like it was planned..find another video on youtube, good luck...
squid said it's not a new instrument, it's a new feature? i guess adding 61 new keys to a piano that original had one key isn't a new instrument, its a new feauture?hmmmm....
meunester is a hater... dood, if you can't find any positive information from that video, you sir, are a sad person.....
jake, it's both styles of playing, if you watch his hands, he switches the notes... it's not so obvious of what he's cuttin and what he's pitch changing... i think that's dope!