This is completely irrelevant, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.
While reading through a history of electronic music I found a mention of some early twentieth century composers, Milhaud and Hindemith, who in the 1920's were experimenting with variable speed turntables in order to create music. It seems that the technique reached its peak (I think this book was written pre hip hop...) in 1939, when John Cage used a number of test tones and other sounds played on turntables at various speeds to actually make a tune - Imaginary Landscape No. 1 So turntablism and cut up tracks are not exactly new... One more interesting fact, the first ever synthesizer was built way back in 1902 by a guy named Thaddeus Cahill, and weighed in at 200 tons. And I thought all this electronic music business was fairly new! Aaron
