If you love a well-done DJ mix as much as I love it, then you best check out the following site:  http://pipomixes.blogspot.com

Now this guy has posted so many damn mixes, but I will select a couple for you to start with.

Vinroc - Reconstruction:  I'm saying it, perhaps the best raw hip-hop mix ever, documenting the 90's for the most part.  Skills on full display.

Vinroc - Reconstruction 2:  Not as good as the first one, but still a must-have for any hip-hop junkie.

J-Rocc - Tasters Choice Volume 1:  Beat Junkies Member.  The Funky President.  J-Rocc brings so much diversity to all of his mixes.  In fact, just go download all of J-Rocc's mixes.  You really can't go wrong with this guy.  Funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz, beat juggling, clever mixes, smooth mixes.  Everything in the Taster's Choice series is worth having.

J-Rocc - Live at the Sex Machine:  I'm so happy I found this.  I used to own it on CD and lost it somewhere along the way. Common's The Light mixed with the original sample.  Sick.

DJ Vinroc and DJ Shortkut - So Much Soul:  5th Platoon, Beat Junkies, Triple Threat, Funk, Soul, Hip-hop.  Another must have.

DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist - Brainfreeze:  All 45's, all rare funk grooves, scratching, beat juggling, snippets of hip-hop.  This is yet another classic, must-own DJ mix.

1984 - 1993.  I'm taking a nod from Bobby Wordpress and now including links for anybody who actually wants to buy the music featured on the show.

Playlist

1.  Eric B. Is On The Cut (Intro Beat)
     Eric B. & Rakim
     Paid in Full
     1987
2.  Back in The Dayz Intro
     DJ Vinroc
     Re-construction 2
3.  Rock The Bells
     L.L. Cool J
     Radio
     1984
4.  My Adidas
     Run D.M.C.
     Raising Hell
     1986
5.  South Bronx
     Boogie Down Productions
     Criminal Minded
     1987
6.  I Know You Got Soul
     Eric B. & Rakim
     Paid in Full
     1987
7.  It's My Thang
     EPMD
     Strictly Business
     1987
8.  I Am The Lyte
     MC Lyte
     Eyes On This
     1989
9.  Road To The Riches
     Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo
     Road To The Riches
     1989
10.  Warm It up, Kane
       Big Daddy Kane
       It's a Big Daddy Thing
       1989
11.  Hip Hop Junkies
       Nice & Smooth
       Ain't A Damn Thing Changed
       1991
12.  Buggin' out
       A Tribe Called Quest
       The Low End Theory
       1991
13.  Keepin' The Faith
       De La Soul
       De La Soul is Dead
       1991
14.  Wu Tang:  7th Chamber, Part 2
       Wu-Tang Clan
        Ener the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
        1993
      

I didn't think my podcasting site allowed altering the underlying html for my text posts, which when i think about it was rather naive of me. Because of that, I didn't embed the live Kid Koala (aka Eric San) video of him re-mixing Moon River. So here it is, embedded. This routine is just dumb crazy nasty.  In case anybody out there is wondering, the mixer he is using is the Rane-TTM-56.

I don't know what that kid on the left is using, it's like a turntable with a built in cross-fader. What?!?

The Theremin is one of the first electronic musical instruments, invented in 1919.  It was also the first instrument where the player doesn't actually touch the instrument.  It had some success in its early days, however, it receded into obscurity as easier electronic instruments were invented.

From Wikipedia...

Operating principles

A theremin is unique among musical instruments in that it is performed without being touched by the operator. The musician stands in front of the instrument and moves his or her hands in the proximity of two metal antennas. The distance from one antenna determines frequency (pitch), and the distance from the other controls amplitude (volume). Most frequently, the right hand controls the pitch and the left controls the volume, although some performers reverse this arrangement. Additionally, some theremins use a volume dial and have only one antenna.

A theremin uses the heterodyne principle to generate an audio signal. The instrument's circuitry includes two radio frequency oscillators. One oscillator operates at a fixed frequency. The other is a variable frequency oscillator, the frequency of which is controlled by the performer's distance from the frequency control antenna. The performer's hand acts as the grounded plate (the performer's body being the connection to ground) of a variable capacitor in an L-C (inductance-capacitance) circuit. The difference between the frequencies of the two oscillators at each moment allows the creation of a difference tone in the audio frequency range, resulting in audio signals that are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.

To control volume, the performer's hand acts as the grounded plate of another variable capacitor. In this case, the capacitor detunes another oscillator, which affects the amplifier circuit. The distance between the performer's hand and the volume control antenna determines the capacitor's value, which regulates the theremin's volume.

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I was at the Devotchka show last Saturday and they kept using it (they use a modified theremin with one antenna).  I'd had never seen somebody play it live and I must say, they integrate the instrument into their music to perfection.

Here's a video clip of them using it.