Love seeing this. I'm 44 years old and have been a house music DJ since 1989. That's since I was 15 years old. I've played countless clubs, festivals,and parties, yet for all this time I've always wished I could scratch but somehow never managed to 'get it'. This year I set myself a mission. I've been at it since January and it's coming on a treat. Chirps, flares, orbits, transforming. I never dreamed I'd manage it, but it's working. It's a long road ahead, but if this old dog can learn a new trick after 29 years then anyone can. :)
I'm 37 and just started learning to DJ from scratch. (Pun fully intended) It's taken a year but I'm jumping in the deep end and performing my first all vinyl set at the end of the month. Another old dog learning some new trix
Dave Stalker-Gillman don’t feel bad bro. These kids now a days have it easy. They have access to Internet (you tube) and dj schools. We didn’t have that growing up.
this is cool to see... i came up with members of the cold crush brothers & the fantastic 5 & been a hip hop deejay/emcee since 1977... it's nice to see young people keeping the elements of our great culture alive... really cool
Awesome, sounds Amazing my ninja. Been working on my transformers, & twiddles, & also my chirps, & utilizing them all together, trying to implement these into different routines. Thanx for your videos, as always, your wicked appreciated...... 👍👊💪🙏😎
Rob Swift big thanks to you and to your students for sharing all this content. Extremely helpful. Looks like the EDM scene hype is fading and authentic electronic music production/mixing, as well as turntablism seem to be on the rise. I think all the hype and the garbage that came along with it may have done a huge favor for people to notice how a lot of super-star DJs may not be truly skillful with their equipment. Of course there is a large crowd who doesn't notice or wouldn't care, as they are there for other reasons, and that's fine. However, I do truly believe that it will have done a favor to the art in the long run, as sheer numbers involved seems to implicate a larger crowd of genuine appreciation for mixing and DJing.
I love it. When I first heard these breaks, I was about 9 years old in '79. Fast forward to the mid 80's; if I woulda saw Sadie comin up to the 1 & 2's, I woulda said GTFOH! BUT...... if I had heard her doing what I just saw her do 5 min ago, I would been HOLY CRAP! I hope she keeps it up.
Im (now..) 49 yr old scratch dj.. first started scratch deejaying iin 1987.. had a gap in between, but now back on scene.. ( know what i meaaan ;) Briing this on.. GREAT to see the youngsters (younger..- stars.) learning this and doin it properly... takes alot of practise, and commitment eh.. but love it. - keep going .. girls - brilliant.. and dj Carlos.. ( Dj Daddymac.. on youtube )
They're getting there! What guts to put themselves on RU-vid doing something that 99.9% of the population are too scared to do. Now that I'm 47 and have amassed a massive collection of 12" records and endless electronic samples, these videos are really helping me realize my dream since I was 13 of being able to truly cut records. Thank you @robswift. Respect.
Thank you for spreading this beautiful art to all to learn. Its a beautiful thing to see females doing it so beautifully and naturally!!! Great job all!!! Enjoy!!!
It's great to see Carlos looping by back spinning the records. it's all button pushing nowadays. DJs learning the art should begin by mastering looping the old-fashioned way by actually spinning the records back to the point of the origin of the loop. Once they have that skill locked down, they can push buttons all they want. We did this the old fashioned way and even know how many rotations back you need to go depending on the tempo of the track and the number of bars. With that skill, you can catch the beat wherever you want, without having to set any cue points in advance.This will make you more spontaneous and creative.
Yeah true but it comes down to knowing the tracks at the end of the day. Cue points should help you be a more creative DJ because it makes it easier. All that 'modern' DJing has done is bring out more entry-level DJ's, I think the big guys still know all this stuff. Also this type of scratch DJing has a very particular audience. So as a comparison you're sort of saying entry-level string-quartet players should be more like advanced jazz bassists.
it is about the music. I like to hear a perfect loop, I don't care what it takes to make it or how it is done. Sure it took a skill to do it the old way. Now you don't need that skill to be creative, and you have 2 hands to do something else with the looped material. DO something musical with them
DJs should learn whatever the fuck they want to learn. y'all oldheads telling people what to do are making me mad man, just because the technology wasn't around back in 1825 when y'all were starting out don't mean we shouldn't be using it in the 21st century when we definitely have it. what about starting off with baby steps? locking down the timing, controlling the record nd shit first, before you learn to backspin quickly and precisely?
😂 use whatever style you prefer, as long as you know what you're doing and the crowd is dancing. You can achieve a lot more with a computer. Computer is just a tool. You're gonna still sound like shit if you don't know what you're doing with a computer.
It’s great as it is very similar to the beginning practice in the beginning, once you get past this stage, and establish the fundamentals, your own personal abilities and style starts to POP!
Word up these people rock man and I grew up in the Bronx and I'm a DJ I learned the old fashioned way hands on taught myself first decks I ever use was Gemini DJ q1200 that's a learning experience in itself my next set of turntables technics SL-D1 manual direct drive decks with two Stanton 680 cartridges wax paper felt slip mats and a penny on the head shell young people know nothing about that those decks no talk you had to push him to get them on point the pitch is a knob that turns in the front you got to literally look at the strobe light and watch the platter middle square patterns floating one section when that happens your pitch is on point
@@gilespeterson6832 Vinyl is popular because they all want to sell expensive equipment and "repress-remastered-in-colored-expensive-shit-vinyl" for audiophiles, nothing to do with The Culture. For Hip Hop heads that have money now they're grown men they make everybody buying 7" repress of Hip Hop classics.. to play on portable turntables.. total bullshit..
Max Wheeler That what I do,strictly vinyl...no serato or controllers,to me that is str8 cheating the culture of dj'ing,some things DON'T need to be changed....
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Black people basically founded EVERY major American musical movement from Blues, Jazz, Rock, Disco, Soul, Techno and Hip Hop, all of which did make their mark in world culture. Not sure why they don't teach this fact during black history month. I guess because it's more politically advantageous to make people young black people self-loathing and push racial division.
So I’m kind of confused the first DJ and the last DJ or backspin to get directions back to the Mark the two middle Grove they wasn’t back spinning how did they get the records back to the Spot
LMAO @...... "if there is such a thing". In My Opinion----> Atoms are more Believable, Viable, Hell Man.... Touchable, than a god, or ghosts..... maybe even aliens. Simply because when an atom is split, depending on what type of Atom, the reaction IS SOMETHING..... A Blast or..... ??? Find me a god, ghost, or an alien to split, Then we can talk!! LOL,,,,, Funny Shit though. People tend to get all kinds of weird when I point out the OBVIOUS about their belief. Please don't be that.
Rob...I am a 51 y/o father of 2 and a lawyer by trade and choice. You inspire, even a guy like me, to want to learn a new "trick"...I am an old dog...but willing to learn!
i go back so far , i used to mix on two belt drive turn tables and i hav to compensate for the belt drag buy adding cut round album covers and pennys on thr needles. no lie, i had a old boden amp with tubes inside that glowed. during the week i would collect spair tubes from old console tv:s that people throw out on trash day. every saturday i would blow at lease one fuse and at lease break two needles. it was the late 70s. rap, or hip hop had no name and was not played on the radio. it was just something poor black kids were doing at basement partys in new york and philly where im from. we actuley mixed by turning the mobe knob from phono to aux befor i got a mixer. thats how bad i wanted to be a part of this new sound. so you see. im not new to this, im true to this.keep up the good work every one
If they're pushing a button to get back to the cue point, instead of manually marking the cue point on the record, wouldn't that be defeating the point?
This video is awesome but.. @ 4:51 - I am not sure about Reloop turntables, but isn't this showing the anti-skating set to 4 ?? It didn't seem to affect Carlos' routine but I believe not having the anti-skate set to '0' while cueing, backspinning and scratching is detrimental to the record and/or stylus. Is this correct? Was it set to 4 in this instance for the 'best quality' audio while playing close to the label/spindle? I suppose if those tracks really need the extra treble from anti-skate setting it might be worthwhile, and I guess scratching your records, you are not too worried about stylus and record wear anyway xD (coming from a mix DJ perspective - I only use anti-skate sometimes while letting a track play out close to the label and only after cueing etc). I have also heard to set the anti-skate to your tonearm weight (or around 75% of it) for best sound quality, but to never use it when scratching since it just adds more forces to the tonearm lateral movement you don't want (pushing towards the edge of the platter). Presuming possibly a mistake/not noticed setting - I always have to double check the anti-skate when I get to a venue :)
