Anyone know of any other movies that are similar to "The Beat Kings." Anything about DJ, digging, beats, etc.

have you seen Scratch?

it's really sick, the turntablism equivalent of Beat Kings
but has a sick digging part with Shadow in LA
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i really like the part in Beat Kings where Marley Marl is describing how he accidentally sampled a snare drum off a record (was it James Brown?), then was like at the potential

deep crates 1+2 are both mad dope!

Shit, on DC1 you even go dig with madlib.

not really the same thing, but along the same lines - the Red Bull Academy video footage of Hank Shockley talking about how the bomb squad made the first coupla public enemy rekkids.

pretty crazy stuff - easily found online.

quoting myself - i'm like a politician now.
here's the Red Bull shockley vid. it completely blew my mind - NOTE: you can also just read the text, which in some ways is better:

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/TUTO ... ession=184

peas.

yeah ,
The Hank Shockley vid is so informative and full of inspiration!!

Yeah I just watched it, good stuff.

I'm real interested in how he kinda calls out Marley Marl for just using one snare (from Impeach the Pres break), and Hank says he would stack that snare with like 2 or 3 other ones. I do think that is creative, but Public Enemy is already hard to absorb, and I think more of me likes the simplicity of a single kick/snare, even if it is considered "lazy," which in my opinion isn't the case.

You're right man,although I'm heavily influenced by the Bomb Squad,their sound is really hard to emulate and while Marley Marl was working on his own with his engineer,the Bomb Squad were 4 deep,I think(the Shockley brothers,Eric Sadler and Chuck D) and Flavor Flav could play multiple instruments and a great knowledge of soul and funk records so it's a bit more easier to make those with 20 samples
But my favorite hiphop beats are simple and minimal...

its a good point. when i first heard 'it takes a nation of millions' i just couldn't even understand what was happening. i knew i dug it, but had no frame of reference for the density of it. i think THAT is part of where the art is, on those first few PE rekkids.

on the other side, you just can't beat the clarity of the kick-snare - there's room in this brain for both - its all in the intent i guess.

but that shockley thing kept me going for awhile when i first saw it. damn.