Turntablism Meets Soul Music: Asian Hawk [Video]

Asian Hawk just destroyed a new set over at DJcityTV where he fuses a bit of R&B live performance with turntablism. The results are so DOPE. Great mic skills, great composition skills, and great turntable wizardry allows him to pull off a nice routine that is different than the others.

Author:: DJ Blaze
Updated:: Feb 12, 2018
Original:: Mar 14, 2017

Asian Hawk just destroyed a new set over at DJcityTV where he fuses a bit of R&B live performance with turntablism. The results are so DOPE. Great mic skills, great composition skills, and great turntable wizardry allows him to pull off a nice routine that is different than the others. Asian Hawk uses a Traktor Kontrol Z2 mixer, a Traktor Kontrol F1, a footswitch, and a Numark TTX pro turntable to pull off this excellent routine. Big props to AH and DJcityTV for putting this up.

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