YMU Album Playlist: Cut Chemist - 'The Audience's Listening'

You guys probably know turntablist Lucas 'Cut Chemist' MacFadden from his work with Jurassic 5, particularly the awesome 'Lesson 6: The Lecture' as well as a whole bunch of solo scratch DJ-ing with buddies like DJ Shadow and Z-Trip, as partly showcased in the documentary Scratch.

[Random fact stream - I managed to randomly turn up to the Future Primitive Sound Session in SF in 1999 pictured at the climax of Scratch, with Z-Trip and Cut Chemist cutting up Edvard Grieg's 'In The Hall Of The Mountain King' - which is also the theme tune to classic video game Manic Miner, which I just wrote an article for PC Gamer UK magazine about. Weird. No Kevin Bacon, though.]

Anyhow, Cut Chemist's first solo album has just been released, and it's been available on Yahoo! Music Unlimited [YMU link] in the last couple of weeks. It's not completely cohesive (nor perhaps should it be, being made of snippets of every record under the sun!), but tracks such as 'The Garden', which samples Astrid Gilberto, are pretty DJ Shadow-ish shades of gorgeous, and 'The Audience Is Listening Theme Tune' is a great conclusion. Therefore, we have that very rare thing - a home-listenable turntablist album (sorry, Mixmaster Mike, X-Ecutioners) - so please do so!