Rob Swift
The Architect

The term “turntablism” isn’t rolling off the tongues of critics or music fans quite as often as it once did, back in the days when the X-ecutioners (o...

One of the biggest musical developments of the late 20th Century is the ascent of hip hop from a regional urban fad to a dominating cultural force. Su...

Ipecac has always been a strange label. Best known for its guitar-crunching noisemaking, it has in recent years become renowned for hip-hop offerings,...

Turntable legend Rob Swift tightropes between genres on his first solo offering in seven years, The Architect. The record sounds like the hip-hop ting...

In the hands of Queens native Rob Swift, the master turntablist who has collaborated with everyone from Blue Man Group to Mike Patton, hip-hop is a pl...

It often seems that the further hip-hop progresses, the more it sounds like industrial music from 20-odd years ago, albeit with an impeccable groove....

If there still exists the argument deriding the merits of the turntable as a legitimate musical instrument, Rob Swift's latest offering just might put...