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man, chill. you have to get some perspective on the subject. if i were doing this at a turntablism competition, i should be beaten up to hell and had rocks thrown at me. if i was claiming to be a turntablist, just as well.
but, i'm just looking to incorporate bits and pieces of that art, into my mixing in a way that it's simple to do, sounds good (IMO) and it doesn't suffer from the main problem that turntablism as an art suffers; turntablism, for the most part, is consumed by it's own principles, meaning if a technique is the hardest to master, even if it doesn't sound all too pleasing, it is the most valued. although it is amazing to watch, i myself couldn't listen to it for too long.
i'm looking just to mix stuff up, keep stuff varied. for instance, in a set, i'd like to do some of this, some straight up mixing, some 3 deck mixing, layering accapellas, live remixing with an FX unit and looping, and soon, i might mess with some ableton goodness and some live production with a friend of mine (wants to whip out his synths [specially interested in his 303] and jam to the rhythm of what i'm spinning).
i'm not focused on turntablism, although i would like to learn it, but this is just something fun i learned and play around with.
"Scratching is more than moving your hand back and fourth on your cdj with the transform on which auto cuts it."
actually, scratching is exactly moving you hand back and forth on your cdj/turntable. what it is NOT, is turntablism. because, well, it is a scratch technique, but i would agree with you if you said it isn't turntablism, rather just an extension of sampling and effects based on a scratch technique. scratching is just an action, that produces a sound. actually making it musical, that's turntablism.
either way man, just chill. in the end, it's what about comes out the speakers.
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