Belgian DJ Nicolas Baudoux, aka DJ ELEPHANT POWER, is the legitimate
successor to the turntablists who appeared in the mid-90s, while
steering
clear of any battle attitude or b-boy posturing. Yet his
scratching is as nimble and deft as one would expect from any
experienced turntablist - but
Baudoux adds one important quality, a
polyphonous and completely idiosyncratic musical language. "Scratch The
Hulu" is a treasure trove full of jolty
drum patterns, pumping
distorted basses, strangely clanging string instruments and signal
horns. DJ Elephant Power creates grooves from tinny
sounding hip hop
samples, coaxes grime from the sound of electric guitars, and from
whistles and scratches he produces 'Hulu'. Baudoux' sound, his
way
of arranging and mixing, do not obey the rules of conventional DJing.
Nothing is in its place, yet everything fits. His tracks are anything
but but tight, yet they groove like hell.
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