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wicky...wicky...SCRATCHIN!!!
i saw bad boy bill this weekend,and i decided to spot being lazy and learn how to scratch! anyone know anyplace online fo help or any TAs kno about scratchin vinyl??
yo,
I just post a thread about Scratch - The Documentary.
Get the link about the movie there and check out some of the most talented turntablist ever. Seriously, most of the guys on the documentary have won competitions soo many times that they event organizers asked them to retired their titles and let others try. hahah
Q-bert won the DMC WORLD Turntablist Title three years straight (91-93). He was soo good at the time that they asked him and his crew (The Invisibl Scratch Pickles) to retired their titles, leaving with the fact that NO ONE would ever be able to beat them.
There are some pretty cool books that come with battle records, that teach you all the techniques of scratching. Flares, crab-walks, transforming, etc.
Check out the movie in you local town, and just be amazed!
PAyce
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| Originally posted by QuickStep yo, I just post a thread about Scratch - The Documentary. Get the link about the movie there and check out some of the most talented turntablist ever. Seriously, most of the guys on the documentary have won competitions soo many times that they event organizers asked them to retired their titles and let others try. hahah Q-bert won the DMC WORLD Turntablist Title three years straight (91-93). He was soo good at the time that they asked him and his crew (The Invisibl Scratch Pickles) to retired their titles, leaving with the fact that NO ONE would ever be able to beat them. There are some pretty cool books that come with battle records, that teach you all the techniques of scratching. Flares, crab-walks, transforming, etc. Check out the movie in you local town, and just be amazed! PAyce |
DJ Craze won the DMC the past three years I think. I know he won it 3 years in a row for sure.
I used to know of a good site (British based) about scratching, but I just can't remmeber. *slaps forehead* Damn, couldn't jump start my brain. If I remember, I'll post it. Too much partying this weekend. LOL
scratching is horrible imo... i cant stand the sound
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Man watching video of Q-bert is crazy. his hands move so fast that they are just a blur on the tables. Watching a DJ scratch is like the most entertaining thing ever. the crowd gets into it so much in smaller venues like clubs.
do you guys know who A-Trak is ? he was only 15 when he entered his first ever dj battle! That was the Canadian DMC Championships back in 1997, which he won!
He then joined the world famous crew The Invisble Skratch Piklz and a couple of months later he won the World DMC Championships in Italy as the youngest dj ever!
he later tried to defend his title in 1998, but was 3rd.. In the 1999 Championships he was 2nd in the Team Battle along with Craze and Infamous as The Allies
btw he went with me to college last year , the guy was kinda nerdy and i never saw him talk about his talent in turntablism , until i discovered 8 months ago he plays @ sona (a local after hour) and made a search on google to find how talented he is
scratching is wicked....but don't be fooled....to get that fast on the crossfader, and to get that coordination between your right and left hand takes aloooooot of practise. Like if you learnt how to beatmatch...imagine practising 20 times longer for some scratch skillz. Those top guys practise it like 3 hours every day
Yea, I'm kinda new to scratching, but I like the sound.
Check out X-ecutioners' latest album 'Built from Scratch'
Scratchin is a must for every dj IMO. Hell I had this vid of Dj TOMY, He's a Hong Kong based Dj and man at some Regional DMC competition this guy stands up on the table, picks up the mixer turns it on it's side, picks up one of his decks and places it on it's side on the side of mixer and uses his left foot on the tone arm to do the scratch while his left hand holds the deck and his right hand moved the cross fader!!!!!!! 
OMG!!!!
I'm practising this scratch thing at the momment and I'm finding it's all about relaxing your arms and shoulders. The more relaxed you are the easier to get the scratch going. I'm finding getting the clicking of the fader to be difficult. If any of you are playstation friendly, you'll know about how sometimes your thumbs and fingers can get really sore and tender after frantic button pressing (ohh er missus) well I'm getting that with my thumb from trying to scratch.
Does any agree, scratchin is a fundamental dj skill, like beatmatching?
a little scratching is necessary...a la DJ jean 
but to get down scratching on a higher level is much harder than getting beatmatching down...and Q-bert -ish scratching also isn't really a basic skill...especially not for the dance scene (trance, techno, club, house)
I'm trying to get some moves down too tho 
but I don't really get the crabs down....like can't make it move the whole length of the cross
Wicky wicky
yeah Q-Bert style scratching is a different league...
I just think that to have a a general handle on the scratching could help some dj's. I never heard the Dj Jean thing (was that his needle damage track?) but I was at an underground party and half way through this guys set he starts messing with Booty House vocals over raw techno (which was sublime) he then went into some scratching over the tech beat and the whole place went mental.
needle damage is a DJ Dan track, out of moonshine records. it's a badass vynil, definitly worth owning... The moonshine vynil has (if i recall properly at the moment) 3 remixes of the track including a hella phat d'n'b remix by sniper
I picked this one up last weekend
as far as scratching, i think it does nothing but mess up a trance set.. there's not many places it would fit it well.
Now d'n'b, hiphop/rap, and even at some points in hardhouse, it can be tasteful.
and yes, it's MUCH harder to learn than beatmatching! I'll worry about beatmatching and good transitions before i attempt to learn how to scratch.. lol
-mer
scratching is wicked when it is incorporated into hard hard trance or hard house. especially over a simple techno style rythym, scratching can turn places into a madhouse. its crazyness
Re: wicky...wicky...SCRATCHIN!!!
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| Originally posted by Phanta C 2001 i saw bad boy bill this weekend,and i decided to spot being lazy and learn how to scratch! anyone know anyplace online fo help or any TAs kno about scratchin vinyl?? |
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| Originally posted by mikefasssy scratching is wicked when it is incorporated into hard hard trance or hard house. especially over a simple techno style rythym, scratching can turn places into a madhouse. its crazyness |
Re: wicky...wicky...SCRATCHIN!!!
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| Originally posted by Phanta C 2001 i saw bad boy bill this weekend,and i decided to spot being lazy and learn how to scratch! anyone know anyplace online fo help or any TAs kno about scratchin vinyl?? |
...i couldnt go though
I'm going to learn how to scratch, it just so happens my sexy next door nieghbor is great at it and offered to teach me 
check out my skills
http://homepage.kub.nl/~s216887/sam...igscratch02.mp3
http://homepage.kub.nl/~s216887/sam...cratchHit01.mp3
http://homepage.kub.nl/~s216887/sam...tchAhYeah01.mp3
heh I hope there aren't any q-berts on these boards to diss me
Wow!!!
Nice scratchin dude!!!
I Think the best place to scratch is the beeps in Yves Deruyter - Back To Earth [Rave Mix]
scratching can be incorperated into trance...though it has to be the right style of scratching...and it has to be timed precisely to keep the flow of a track
a prime example of this is hybrid
listen to their live in sydney cd
there is a point where they actually use scratching to add to a build up and it makes the song so much better
i personally wouldn't mind learning how to beat juggle, however i don't want to try and learn because i know ill damage my needles and my records from countless practice andi dont have money for new needles right nw
and i don't want to fuck up my cross fader just yet
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