Turnament: part skratch DJs, part modern art, part hip and / or hop - the common thread? Visionary musicians using turntables and records as instruments in ways you'd never dream possible. We won't sell you the whole seat - you'll only need…the edge!
Hello unto you.
This is to inform you that the Turnament festival of turntablism, produced by David Cotner in association with The Derby, takes place November 7 at the Derby Nightclub in Los Angeles. Ticket prices have been lowered to for the night; UCLA student discount remains at for night (only 200 of these tickets are available!).
Friday, November 7, 2003
· Ace & Duce - Los Angeles (Los Angeles Free Music Society founders)
· amk - Los Angeles (flexidisc collages on classroom record players)
· DJ Icy-Ice - Los Angeles (Stacks Records proprietor and hip-hop prime mover)
· DJ Jester - San Antonio (URB Magazine Next 100 artists 2003)
· DJ Quest - San Francisco (Live Human founder and "Hamster Breaks" mastermind)
· DJ Smallcock - Sydney (3000 RPMs of terror from Down Under)
· Dublab Soundsystem - Los Angeles (transglobal Internet broadcasting pioneers)
· Emil Beaulieau - Lowell (America's Greatest Living Noise Artist performs a dignified and professional tutorial on anti-records)
· Your MC, for the first time in Los Angeles in almost two decades - The Rappin' Duke!
Installations (in the Derby Room)
· DJ Meeuw - Amsterdam (king of the colourful 7" single working an all-45s set)
· David Woodard - Los Angeles - lecture / exposition of the Brion Gysin Dreamachine
· The New Blockaders - anti-concert
9:30 p.m., The Derby Nightclub
4500 Los Feliz Boulevard (corner of Hillhurst Avenue and Los Feliz Boulevard)
Los Angeles, California 90027
323 663 8979 fon
http://www.the-derby.com/
Admission at the door - / UCLA students with valid identification
Contact info@turnament.com for advance ticket sales information
"From 1940 to 1960, this same building housed one of the original Brown Derby Restaurants. There were five in all - located in Beverly Hills, mid-Wilshire (the hat-shaped one), Hollywood, Los Feliz and the Crenshaw district. The Crenshaw location opened and closed in just a few months, so it is not as well known as the others.
The idea for what is now The Derby was originally conceived by Cecil B. DeMille and opened in 1929 as Willard's Chicken Inn. The motto back then was "The chicken whose feet never hit the ground". Live chickens actually were raised in the kitchen! It was the gathering place for Hollywood's movie stars; in 1945, while on location filming "Mildred Pierce", Joan Crawford muttered the infamous line, "People have to drink somewhere. Why not here?" The dome-shaped design of the roof actually had a unique purpose: water was pumped up to the top of the dome and then ran down the sides into a moat to make this one of the first air-conditioned buildings."
Future bulletins as events warrant, of course.
http://www.turnament.com/
Original: Turnament - a festival of turntablism in Los Angeles, November 7.