{"id":2358,"date":"2009-09-21T10:10:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T15:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:56:21","slug":"axel-scratch-as-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=2358","title":{"rendered":"Axel: Scratch as Love"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/a>me & keith, mixing under mcgrath<\/a> (photo by charles daniels<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a special week in W&Wland! Not once, but TWICE, I’ll be playing alongside one of my favorite local turntable heroes: DJ Axel Foley<\/a>. I’ve been jamming with Keith for years now, and it’s always great fun. He provided scratches for several tracks on Boston Jerk<\/a> back in 2003, and he’s been a recurring guest in Electro Class<\/a>, where he’s offered an incredible demo of the history of scratching, from the baby scratch to the crab. (Some of you may have seen him replay this routine<\/a> for some visual-wizardry c\/o Jesse Kriss<\/a>. If not, you should.)<\/p>\n

Tonight, Axel will be our guest at Beat Research<\/a>; & Friday, I’ll be guesting at his weekly gig at Grafton Street<\/a> in Harvard Square, where Keith gets to indulge his penchant for funky disco and boogie jamz galore. As it happens, I’ll already be in the Square on Friday for a symposium<\/a> on the New Literary History of America<\/a> edited by Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors, so I’m hoping I can turn the gig into something of an afterparty for some of the heavyhitters gathered at Hahvid this weekend. We’ll see; Keith and I will be dropping some heavy tracks at any rate. <\/p>\n

For now, I’ll leave you with a fun clip of Axel, me, Pace, and VJ Dziga jamming under a highway in Somerville this summer —<\/p>\n

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