Concert Review: RJD2 at the Grog Shop

Last night at the Grog Shop, RJD2 proved that DJ-ing with vinyl is still alive and kicking, but also showed the wonders of modern music technology. He took the stage dressed in what looked like a welder’s mask, and he had LED lights on his outfit and a sampler pad hanging from his neck. He began his performance with a song he played simply by using samples loaded onto the machine. Then shortly after, he abandoned the gimmicky costume and proceeded to play his set armed with four turntables and two sampler pads. With RJD2 cutting and scratching vinyl records and playing around on his sampler pads (during one break, he sampled video game sounds and acted like he was playing a retro game), you would think there was more than one person orchestrating it all.

This article appears in Sep 19-25, 2012.