Autobahn scratch

Since Scratchlopedia Breaktannica came out this scratch has undoubtedly been the most discussed. How does it work? What is the pattern? It didn’t really help that the doubletime pattern on the DVD was actually a different pattern than the ‘regular’one. In any case, below my example of it (regular speed…) and I’ve added the transcription […]

History of Turntablism

Some sections that I wanted to include in Skratchamental either take up to much time to do properly myself, or have been done really good by somebody else. The latter is the case with the history of turntablism.

The Pedestrian organisation

Pedestrian is a non profit voluntary organisation that provides workshops, information, support and performance opportunities for […]

Turntablism

Turntablism, by some referred to as ‘the art of the Scratch DJ’. In my opinion the following definitions describe the terms the best:

Turntablist: ‘One who uses the phonograph turntable as component to make music as well as an instrument to literally play music.’ (Official International Turntablism Federation Newsletter, 1996)

Turntablism: ‘Manipulation of previously recorded track(s) to […]

Looking back

As we are approaching the end of 2009, I personally couldn’t think of any big innovations in the turntablist area. Naturally vendors haven’t been sitting still but at the same time I felt there wasn’t that much really new for the ‘Joe Average tablist’.

Then I remembered this guy:

If a mod for my mixer […]

Next level Powerheadz

Aside from funky cutting I can also appreciate the art of breaking. This is an old vid already, but it is one I would like to share with you, I think it’s awesome.

Anyone who knows the name of the soundtrack, comment please 🙂

All that reloading is making me itch

Got the new logo in place. Hope to start converting some of the old content to this site in the course of the week. Expect to see some new stuff as well, but mostly in the form of info I’ve gathered from other sites and vids. This should become the place to find all the […]

Customization

Pfff, getting to grips with WordPress but ‘reloaded’ needs some custom things still. More soon…

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