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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
As a member of the X-Ecutioners, Rob Swift has made a name for himself as a particularly progressive turntablist. Embracing his technique as a vehicle for expression like any other artist, Swift solidifies this bold vision on his solo debut, The Ablist. Exhibiting a jazzy, freestyle DJ aesthetic with roots in rap, hip-hop, and urban soul, Swift produces a unified sound emphasizing his turntable skills without ever abandoning the premise of actual song form. Swift scratches and spins his way though 13 stimulating compositions, enlisting the aid of rappers, singers, and other instrumentalists. While this recording maintains many of the old turntable traditions, The Ablist also points the way toward viewing this DJ as a thoroughly modern musician. --Mitch Myers

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Swift flexes his creativity in as many ways as he can possibly imagine.

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Tracks:

Day One
Dope on Plastic
What Would You Do?
Night Time
Modern Day Music
Two Turntables And A Keyboard
Fusion Beats
Alma's Message
Turntablist Anthem
Let's Talk Relationships
I'm Leaving
Brainstorming
All That Scratching Is Making Me Rich!
Ben Fee The MC
Musica Negra/Black Music (Remix)
Gangis Kahn
This Is Our Day
The Will To Do Something Different
Something Different
Gangis Khan Returns
The Ablist

Amazon.com

As a member of the X-Ecutioners, Rob Swift has made a name for himself as a particularly progressive turntablist. Embracing his technique as a vehicle for expression like any other artist, Swift solidifies this bold vision on his solo debut, The Ablist. Exhibiting a jazzy, freestyle DJ aesthetic with roots in rap, hip-hop, and urban soul, Swift produces a unified sound emphasizing his turntable skills without ever abandoning the premise of actual song form. Swift scratches and spins his way though 13 stimulating compositions, enlisting the aid of rappers, singers, and other instrumentalists. While this recording maintains many of the old turntable traditions, The Ablist also points the way toward viewing this DJ as a thoroughly modern musician. --Mitch Myers

Customer Reviews:

As with all Rob Swifts Cds, if you like Turntablism buy This.......2004-02-20

Rob Swift proves again and again that he has what it takes to consistently evolve as a musician and thus, hands in yet another exercise is turntable dynamics, that fully explores the many aspects of turntable trickery. It would have been easier to deliver an album of precise Hip-Hop scratching & Mixing to please everyone. But instead he goes a lot further and produces a broad album with the turntable being the primary instrument. Sublime scratching ("Dope on Plastic"), beat heavy underground Rap ("Night Time"), A very interesting excursion, with Beat juggling coupled with a keyboard melody ("Two Turntables & a Keyboard"), Silky smooth vocal R&B ("Turntablist Anthem"), The sample-scratched unparalleled brilliance ("All this Scratching is making me Rich"). Its certainly heartening to see that something different has been tried here (and is so brilliantly realised), because it manages to earmark itself a totally distinguished album, from all the other (admittedly fantastic) turntable albums out there.

All this scratchin's makin me rich.......2000-01-22

A really good album of progressive hip-hop. Not only does it got great DJ'ing but the MC'ing is pretty good too. This is not the best album ever made, but I bought it and I listen to it reguarly. I especially dig his ability to experiment, like the turntable vs. keyboard deal. It's just too bad the DJ'ing on that song wasn't a tad better in some parts. Great concept, and works part of the song, but on some parts the beats don't seem to really flow right... All in all though, this is one of the better hip-hop albums I own and I highly recommend it to fans of underground hip-hop. I can't wait to hear more from him.

A good offering from a master turntablist.......2000-01-12

Rob Swift, DJ extraodinare from the X-ecutioners, gives us the latest in turntablism. Even though I was expecting more instrumentals, I wasn't really disappointed since the MCs that show up go well with Mr. Swifts tight production skills- speaking of which, the best MC track, in my opinion is "I'm Leaving", which has one of the dopest guitar loop I've ever heard ( it perfectly compliments the somewhat melancholy subject of leaving your boo ), too bad it's only two and some odd minutes long. Other highlights are "all that scratching is making me rich", which is him on the ones and twos and various others on drums, guitar, and horns, each instrument taking turns over the scratches that Rob Swift deftly manipulates. All in all, a good solid offering of the DJing aspect of hip-hop.

A good offering from a master turntablist.......2000-01-12

Rob Swift, DJ extraodinare from the X-ecutioners, gives us the latest in turntablism. Even though I was expecting more instrumentals, I wasn't really disappointed since the MCs that come show up go well with Mr. Swifts tight production skills- speaking of which, the MC best track, in my opinion is "I'm Leaving", which has one of the dopest guitar loop I've ever heard ( which perfectly compliments the somewhat melancholy subject of leaving your girl ), too bad it's only two and some odd minutes long. Other highlights are "all that scratching is making me rich", which is him on the ones and twos and various others on drums, guitar, and horns, each instrument taking turns over the scratches that Rob Swift deftly manipulates. All in all, a good solid offering of the DJing aspect of hip-hop.

Such the best CD ever had.......1999-08-30

WOW, As I heard it the first time I didn't believe what my ears told me. I 'm impressed of it, best scratching

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