hehe, i didn't realize you were a Hawtin anorak!

anyway, all i can do is report what i saw, and that suggested that *whatever* he was controlling with the pedal was having the tempo synced by tapping. i've been spinning long enough to have pretty trained ears, and the beats were definitely being corrected this way.

this was about 1.5 years ago in NYC, at the weekly summer event PS2.

cheers