Kurteek – Sick, no doubt, but honestly this style of scratching gives 99.9% of casual listeners a headache and is nothing but irritating to anybody but the people who do it.

Jimmy the Hideous – Sick, but same as above.

nozl – Nozl is great. I bought their first album when they released it a few years ago and I still listen to it. It’s awesome. This was a good direction for scratching to be going in. The people who composed this way where pushing scratching in the right direction, I thought, but I felt like it hit a dead-end and no more progress was being made beyond a certain point. When it came down to it, the turntable was really just a super shitty production tool, and live, I rarely if ever heard the kind of clean, sharp, consistent sounds that I was hearing from polished studio albums.

Also, it’s worth nothing that nothing Nozl does is as good as Sketchbook. Seems like I was right, the best shit has already been done. Is anybody doing anything really fresh?

Also, on the subject of The Ruck. I listed to his new stuff a little. He’s still the shit. He was an egotistical asshole, often, but I think he did more to create real, accessible music than anyone in the scene back in the day, even D-Styles (go ahead and flame away). Him and I had some super conversations on the boards and when I met him in person he was just super cool and friendly. I’ll never hate on Rucker. No matter how much of an ass he is.

(http://www.youtube.com/user/YoshiTTR)

additionally, I’d check out Kurteek’s stuff (http://www.youtube.com/user/kurteek), Jimmy Penguin (http://www.youtube.com/user/jimmythehideous), and Nozl recordings (http://www.youtube.com/user/nozlrecordingsuk)

this is a good start….. I’m not posting links to any of Ricci’s stuff. I’m not giving him the traffic.

PS – The Ruck was amazing back in the day. He was a dick, though. Hit me back with links to his recent videos and music.

karma’s a bitch.

fuck the ruck.