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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
This is more the way you'll hear scratching done at a block party or at a club.

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[[scratching noises and music]]

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[[continues to talk over the music]]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
There's those moving from turntable to turntable--

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
--and using the other disk to create polyrhythms. Adding an entirely new rhythm onto the rhythm of the disk.

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[[scratching and music continues]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Let's have a hand for Cosmic Kev, there at the turntable!
[[music fades]]
[[applause]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now the question that's most frequently asked when they hear a DJ, folks hear a DJ doing that, is does it hurt the record? Kev, can you give us an answer to that?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Okay. The reason why a lot of people think scratching is scratching the record, the record itself, the disk, which is not true.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Scratching is the movement of your hand on the record, with your needle on hand moving it up and down at the rhythm of the other record while it's playing or at your own rhythm or the pace of yourself as the crowd is dancing.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
If you scratch to not a rhythm or something, it sounds like a noise.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
If you scratch, to a, a nice, you know, way the people are dancing or something like that, you know it sounds pleasing. If you notice every time I scratch, it's never off beat, when the record comes in, it's always on beat because I scratch to the other, the other side of the turntable.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Which you know- excuse me, the pace of the other turntable. If I scratch to my own rhythm then I'm gonna throw the public, myself, offbeat. It's not going to sound right.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
It's going to sound like a noise.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
There's different types of scratching. There's easy scratching, there's hard scratching, there's scratching that sounds like songs like you know Homes, Harmley scratches and stuff like that.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
What a lot of DJ's, they take scratching and they, you know [[misabuse?]] the thing.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Scratching is not scratching record only a variety of records don't, the only way the records will not scratch if you buy the right type of material--

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
--you take care of your records, you clean them every night or at the end of the week, you make sure that your needles are not, you know, not too much pressure on your record.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
If you buy the right types of materials, your records and all your materials will never be damaged.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
That is assured because most of the records I've had, I've had 'em for about 3, 4 years and I don't have a scratch on them.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
And people say, "Well how do you scratch without getting them scratched?"

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
They've been thinking I've been putting my hand on the record, scratching the record, it's just the movement of the disc up and down at a steady pace of the other beat that's playing.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
As you, you have to go along with the beat that's going along with the record.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Clearly, when you've got instances of rap groups and DJ's who are working professionally, you can't afford to scratch your record.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
You've got to use those records, time after time after time so you've got to keep that record in good shape, so you're not going to develop--

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
--a whole system, a whole skill which is built around destroying the very disc from which you make your livelihood.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Yes.