Label: Discrepant

Discrepantからの新作!!主に即興/エクスペリメンタルの分野で動くターンテーブリスト/キュレーター/音楽家のDJ Sniff。"玉音放送"をコンセプトとした同Discrepantからの前作[Parallel Traces of the Jewel Voice]は当店でも人気を博しましたが、今回はドキュメント性もある純粋な単独即興演奏のみを捉えた[Turntable Solos]を発表。2024年後半に行われたライブ録音から構成、氏が2007年にMax/MSPで開発したソフトウェアサンプラー"Cut ’n’ Play"をセットの核に据えた超先鋭的ターンテーブリズム。



After the conceptual depth of Parallel Traces of the Jewel Voice (2021), dj sniff returns to Discrepant with a more direct and visceral document: Turntable Solos.

Composed from live recordings made during the latter half of 2024, Turntable Solos captures dj sniff’s improvised performances in their rawest form. At the core of his setup is Cut ’n’ Play, a software sampler he originally built in Max/MSP in 2007. Since then, he has continued developing custom tools and instruments that extend what Derek Bailey called the “instrumental impulse” — the tactile, responsive relationship between musician and machine that defines improvisation.

Following a summer 2024 tour of Japan with Gonçalo Cardoso, sniff was encouraged to document and release a selection of his live sets. Not long after, a performance at 20α (Alpha) in Hong Kong would become the emotional and conceptual anchor for the project.

In the liner notes, sniff reflects on the eerie parallels between recent footage of protestors in Los Angeles — assaulted by police using so-called “less-lethal” weapons, and civilians being abducted into detention centers — and the 2019 Hong Kong protests. A place once filled with personal nostalgia began to feel like a grim foreshadowing of what might unfold in Western societies.

In this turbulent context, 20α stands out as a space of resistance and renewal — a beacon for a new generation of experimental musicians, growing in defiance of increasing censorship and surveillance. Turntable Solos is both a personal statement and a public act of sonic resilience.