The lad's certainly got some talent there. I enjoyed that, so I did.

...is the worst video ever. He doesn't even sing or click his fingers or anything.
Does it have anything to do with that hand thing from the Adams Family?

It was done with a webcam pointed at his mixer in his bedroom! Anyway, credit-crunch minimalism is the new paradigm: Eastenders is to be renamed "Waiting for Rickeeeeeee" and will consist of Bianca sitting alone on a park bench, lamenting the existential misery of being a chav, soundtracked with Burial's "Ghost Hardware".

this puts it to shame.

but he is just playing some records/cds/mp3's isn't he?
It's not as though he's written songs or anything.

I could say that Marcel Duchamp started this philosophy in 1915 (now there's old fashioned!), or maybe rue the lack of imagination amongst musicians: can't they get away from the same old twelve notes? It's not like they've done anything really new or anything.

But I'm not, so I have to say I know what you mean. As a veteran of 15 years in the back of a Transit, I used to think turntablism was an insult to those of us who bothered learning scales, but having tried it, I've rapidly come to the opinion that it's as valid (and hard) as any other branch of musicianship. It creates something completely new out of existing music, and takes as much practice and talent as making the music in the first place.