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Great representation of turntablism, and dreaming as well...

Brandon Faust | Hampton, VA | 02/24/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There wasn't a moment where I questioned DJ Shortee's skill throughout my first listen to "The Dreamer." Her scratching, beats, and samples are all on point.Shortee's usage of sampling is rather interesting, and all the beats are guaranteed headnodders. It's also neat to hear an album revolving around turntablism and dreaming. Two things I find quite intriguing.."

Shortee has reinvented the turntablist sound .

Brandon Faust | 10/31/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"With DJing growing so fast and the turntablist music soaring to new dimensions so quickly, artists like Q Bert, Mixmaster Mike, Faust, T Rock, Shadow, Mr Dibbs, Disk, Shortee etc. are pioneering the sound and the future of turntable music. If you think about this you'll see there are really only a handful of releases which can be considered this and each has its own unique qualities. Shortee apart from being the first female to put together a turntablist album has taken a new approach to how the music should sound. Combining careful scratch precision with perfectly orchestrated collages of disected sound snippets from a million and one sources Shortee has created a very musical variety of songs ranging from Dub, Downtempo abstract B Boy beats, to Hip Hop and Drum & Bass while still maintaning cut and pasted scratch syncopation all throughout the project. If you are a fan of turntable fables, this is a journey you wont want to miss. The Dreamer is not just another album, it's a story about Shortee, a dream psychosis patient who dicovers that when her brain waves are recorded they are really sound waves. If her dreams aren't recorded they will be lost forever and the album is a rendition of her journeys in dreamland. It's one of the most creative of the tuntablist albums to date and it even comes with the complete story written by Peter Babb. To put it short, Shortee has reinvented the turntablist sound, we can go anywhere if we dream enough."