Echoplex sighting

[Dave Trenkel <improv@peak.org>]

I was just watching the DVD to "Scratch", Doug Pray's excellent 
documentary on DJ culture. On the bonus disc, there's some excerpts 
from a video series called "Battle Sounds", and in one excerpt, DJ 
Radar demonstrates turntable looping, with just 1 turntable, a mixer 
and an EDP. You have to step through the video frame by frame to see 
that it's an EDP, there's just one brief shot of the foot controller, 
and as the camera pans over the turntable, you can very briefly see 
the front panel.

The performance is pretty interesting, though short, he builds up 
rhythms from single drum hits, adds bass lines, plays melodies on 
sustained synth notes, uses undo a lot to drop out parts, etc., all 
very fluid and smooth. I've often been surprised that more DJ's don't 
loop, I know there have been a few on this list, but it seems pretty 
rare. The DJ I work with is just getting started with it himself.