This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
The title refers, of course, to the two kinds of gunfighters. And without a doubt, DJs Spooky and Scanner are the two quickest draws in the turntable tribe these days.
Despite the fight-card-style billing, however, Q&D — the first of Scanner’s new collaborative Meld Series — is no turntable duel. Of course, that’s not much of a surprise; this like-minded pair have been on the same side for years. Both Spooky (whose intellectual hip-hop excursions engage the brain along with the booty) and Scanner (who earned his nickname by using intercepted cell phone calls in his mixes) continue to prowl the post-modern urban landscape here, scavenging bits of cultural detritus and affixing them to their graffiti-art collages of John Cage ambient minimalism, Sonic Youth noise-rock, and whacked-out head-trip hip-hop. In this shootout, everbody hits the bullseye.
