The title is a bit misleading as it isn't really the invention of scratching as a musical art form, whoever invented it, and even though he does some at the end and even though it involves moving the record by touching it back and forth. He may be the first guy to have used this technique for some DJ purposes, idk, and idk if he invented scratching (I heard it was Grand Wizard Theodore). Scratching is mostly about using the record as an improvisational percussive instrument, this is not really the topic here. BUT what this video really is about - and it's very cool because it's the only video (I found) on yt of someone showing and explaining this - is the technique to isolate what's called the "break"(>break-beat) of a song (when all musicians stop except the drummer who keeps playing the (usually funk) beat alone, which was pretty common in early 70s funk songs, James Brown's for example) and especially how to make this break-beat last indefinitely by having two copies of the same record playing the same part of the song alternately (the DJ rewinding one to the beginning of the break, muted with the mixer while the other is playing it) !!! Why making it last ? Because at NYC early 70s block parties, this was the part people and especially dancers would love, go crazy on, and dance to, that's why they started being called break-dancers and how that dance form was born. James Brown himself loved that type of drumming and that's why he would order those breaks to the band as we can hear him say to his drummer Clyde Stubblefield on the song "Funky Drummer" (sampled many many times) : "You don't have to do no solo, brother, you just keep what you got, 'cause it's a mother !". JB didn't know what he was originating by doing this. Later, hip-hop DJs/producers/beatmakers would sample a lot of those breaks as drum loops on their records and add other musical samples (for example a jazz piano taken from the intro of a song where the pianist plays alone and looped just like the drums, or a bass, or a whole band etc.), that sort of "cut and paste/patchwork" process that got hip-hop music the sound it has or had (getting a 1970s soul/funk drummer to play with a 1920s Louis Armstrong on House of Pain's song "Back from the dead", two pretty happy sounding music 50 years apart, joined together to make a pretty dark and raw 90s hip-hop atmosphere ! I believe DJ muggs did this, whose typical sound/style, heard on this song as well, is often characterized by sampling an upright bass and having dark atmospheres through his sample choices, listen to Cypress Hill !). On top of which a rapper/MC would rap. So, this video is actually kind of showing the musical idea and technique that started hip-hop culture (except for graffiti) !!!
Righ some of these Caribbean people are saying 3 dj start Hip Hop herc, flash, and bambara, they did start Hip Hop. They are Lairs. The African American DJ in Brooklyn, and Queens did start Hip Hop are the Bronx that is a lair.
TBH different components of the art were probably introduced by different people which Flash was privy to. However, the way he puts it, touching the vinyl, slip mats, the double pole switch, adding maths to the times of looping etc. That's flash's contribution to DJing.
ORIGINAL HIP HOP WORLWIDE CONCEPT INNOVATION. DID YOU CATCH THE CONCEPT?. LA PUERTA LA ABRIÓ GRANDMASTERFLASH OK?. THE FIRST ONE.. THE REAL ONE HIP HOP DJ.
Edward Fletcher with melle mel the rapper was the guys who made the music of the Message, grand master flash was just the dj of the band and nothing else, in this documentary, they dont speak about the real producers of the message, grand master flash was just the name of the dj they put to attracked the young crowd .
Grandmaster Flash no disrespect you are not the first DJ to call himself Grandmaster there's only one original Grandmaster and that's the late DJ Grandmaster flowers from brooklyn the original Grandmaster
@@DeenoverDunya215 Flash only expounded upon what was already being done. Flash and Cool Hurc both borrowed their techniques from DJs before them. Its down right disingenuous to not give credit to the pioneers before them. In my opinion none of the original DJs from back in the day never used a crayon on their records.
I just KNEW when I saw the title of this video, 90% of the comments would be arguments about who started what and not about the obvious artistry. Good thing jazz isn't like hip hop, the only people who'd have DARED showcase their talent would have been the first five folk from New Orleans who picked up a banjo...
