Viewing page 8 of 14

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Transcription: {SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
[00:28:14]
Well, the difference between a mixologist and a broadcast is, It's really a three-man set.

[00:28:20]
Ima use Michael Jackson for a coincidence.

[00:28:22]
Like, when Michael Jackson write a record and he put it on the market to be sold, he pass it down to the broadcaster

[00:28:28]
who broadcast it over the radio, and might do a little bit of mixing and blending with the record.

[00:28:34]
Then it goes down to the cut master, Cosmic Kev, who put the real mixology to the record, and get,

[00:28:40]
and put it in all the clubs and everything to get everybody to buy the record

[00:28:44]
So it's really a big difference 'tween a broadcaster and a, umm, mixologist.

[00:28:49]
(Silence)

[00:28:51]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
What I'd like to do, at this point then, is to ask each of the DJs to demonstrate a few of the different styles,

[00:28:58]
and to explain the complexity of working with the double turntables.

[00:29:03]
Perhaps the best way to start is to explain exactly why you need

[00:29:09]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Why to --

[00:29:10]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
two turntables to work with?

[00:29:12]
(Silence)

[00:29:13]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Sly, could you explain why you got two turntables, and especially,

[00:29:17]
when you use the same record on both turntables, why it is that you do that?

[00:29:21]
{Silence}

[00:29:24]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The reason two records be used on, we really need two of the same record is on the turntable is

[00:29:32]
you might buy a record and they only got five seconds worth of music in it worth listenin' to.

[00:29:39]
So, what you do is you switch from table to table to keep that beat steady goin'.

[00:29:43]
{Silence}

[00:29:44]
And then sometimes you might buy a record that just got some good words to it, but the music to it ain't worth nothin'.

[00:29:50]
Then you might buy a record that got good music, and the words ain't worth nothin'.

[00:29:55]
So, you would take the music from one album, and put it to the words on the other one.

[00:30:00]
And do the same thing, when you turn it around and you pick up a 100% sound instead of just having that 50%.

[00:30:06]
And another reason for both turntables like Cosmic Kev told ya'll that keep everybody on solid pace.

[00:30:12]
Don't slow the party down.

[00:30:13]
'Cuz we got that, only got one turntable.

[00:30:16]
Then we got to stop, then change records and by the time we get another one on everybody bring the set down.