Birdy Nam Nam

turntablism // downtempo

I hear you asking. “How precisely does a group of four Parisian DJs snag the DMC World Team Champion title?” (You’re asking that, right?) Well, let me let you in on a secret. It has to do with eight turntables, half as many mixers, and four Frenchmen that know how to cut, copy, paste, and manipulate songs into healthy grooves. The impressive thing here is that Nam Nam’s music is enjoyable by itself, yet similar to DJ Kentaro and C-Mon & Kypski, their performace and video techniques add the extra piece that establishs their obvious dynasty in the realm of team DJs. Peep the languid track below and then drop into the video of ‘Absesses’.

Downtempo masterpieces, composed scratch by scratch.
Birdy Nam Nam – Kind of Laid Back

Birdy Nam Nam – Absesses


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Posted by Paul Irish on Monday, June 12th, 2006 under electronic, experimental, hip-hop.

21 Responses to “Birdy Nam Nam”

  1. runman said on June 15th at 2:23 am :

    A bit of good scratching is a great thing. Video was excellent.TVM. :))

  2. Anonymous said on June 15th at 4:05 pm :

    Very nice!

    Your vid is linked on i-am-bored (http://i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=18008) just arrived here while searching to find more…

  3. Paul Irish said on June 15th at 4:13 pm :

    Very cool. That’s why it’s gotten so many views. mad good.

  4. Ian said on June 19th at 10:43 am :

    Wow that’s really great turntablism! Probably the most in tune collective I’ve heard in a while

  5. Derek said on June 21st at 1:43 pm :

    You have the BEST blog on the net, hands down, in spite of the infrequent posts (or maybe because of the infrequent posts, it lets you keep the quality high). Thanks for another GREAT find.

  6. Paul Irish said on June 21st at 1:49 pm :

    Thank you, Derek. I do wish I posted more frequently, but meanwhile I definitely restrain needless posts to keep the quality high. Cheers!

  7. Aurgha said on June 22nd at 7:26 am :

    Hi there, great blog. These parisian guys were excellent live a few days ago at The Fez Club in Reading (UK). If only they dropped a few more DnB into their mixture they would certainly be great. (June 2006)

  8. The MERKIN MAN said on June 23rd at 1:25 pm :

    Pretty cool. Until now, the only other song I knew of that featured a trip to the can was Bjork’s There’s More to Life Than This.

  9. enfa said on June 26th at 7:29 pm :

    Hehe, that made me grin a bunch. Great find, Paul.

  10. Mike said on June 29th at 7:27 am :

    I just found your blog yesterday, and I thought I should let you know that you’re doing an awesome job/service. After listening to the sample songs I bought Birdy Nam Nam and Rodrigo y Gabriela. I don’t know that I ever would have found them with out your help. Thanks!

  11. Anonymous said on June 29th at 9:18 pm :

    This is a great job u do here! respect! keep posting :)

  12. Anonymous said on July 1st at 4:16 pm :

    great work, some of the most innovative turntablelism i’ve heard in a long time. big props! keep on scratching that itch!

  13. Anonymous said on July 2nd at 8:15 am :

    that was the most beautiful thing i’ve seen/heard in quite a while. truly amazing.

  14. lonomatopeur said on July 6th at 2:57 am :

    I saw this boys the last week end on Scopitone Festival in the west of France.

    It was so goog!!!
    But I prefer RJD2!

  15. Jan said on July 6th at 2:32 pm :

    I am so going to see these guys live at Dour :-) A friend of mine from NYC saw them perform there and said it was very good…

    There are some more good videos at birdynamnam.com – I am especially fond of Le Chant des Baleines.

  16. Jared K. said on July 6th at 11:43 pm :

    Wow. Someone I know was part of a front page post (the cool kids say FPP) on MetaFilter. You hit the big time now. The Boston Globe is one thing, but MetaFilter is pretty much Internet Hipster central. Much more your kind of audience.

  17. Anonymous said on August 5th at 8:30 am :

    This got me going no end, I want more!

  18. ExistingThing said on August 6th at 3:29 pm :

    That was incredible. I saw this at Defcon last Saturday, and was blown away. I somehow managed to find it here. Keep up the good work, I’ll be coming back…

  19. Anonymous said on October 13th at 4:00 pm :

    birdy nam nam owns for more videos/songs http://www.birdynamnam.com

  20. cybersymes said on October 29th at 5:40 am :

    hellfire that’s incredd…
    i’m buying that shytt today…
    and planning a trip to france…
    pronto…

    stunning vibez…
    best i’ve heard in months…
    gonna live my life to that movie…
    oh yess … :)

  21. Schtonky Pomp said on February 12th at 3:17 pm :

    When scratching is not just performance but music :)

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