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Transcription: [00:30:23]
{SPEAKER name="Host"}
So if we've got, a segment of music, let's say a five second, sequence of music, in an entire record that's hot, that's good for dancing, what you can do, by putting that same record on each turntable, is repeat the music. Is go from one turntable to the other, to the first, to the second, to the first, to the second, repeating only that five second sequence. And timing it, such that the two go together, and the audience, or the dancing audience in most cases, never knows, that what you're doing is simply replaying five seconds of one, then the same five seconds on the other disk.
[00:31:04]
Kev, would you like to give us an example of that? Doing, a short sequence - eh, he's talking there, with Money Man, [[laughs]]
{SPEAKER name="Kevin"}[Cosmic Kev]
I thought you were talking to Sly.
{SPEAKER name="Host"}
It's your turn now! Give us a short sequence from one, and the same piece from the other, and sort of go back and forth. Not speed mixing, we'll do that next.

[00:31:30]
So what he'll be using here is, he's got two copies of the same record, he'll put one on each turn table, and Kev, what I'd like you to do first, is play, play a bit of the piece through, so, we hear more than just the part that will be repeated, and get an idea of what it is. Then, go back, start again, and use that one section again and again.
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{SPEAKER name="Kevin"}[Cosmic Kev]
One two-

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[[music playing, repeatedly saying "it's time"]]

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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
Now, every time it says time, it's coming off of a different turntable.

[00:32:29]
[[music playing, repeatedly saying "it's time"]]

[00:33:11]
Kevin, could you turn one all the way down, and let's hear the other one from the it's time on, to get an idea of, what it would normally sound like.
{SPEAKER name="Kevin"}[Cosmic Kev]
Want me to scratch it?
{SPEAKER name="Host"}
Without scratching, just one turntable, let it play for a little while.

[00:33:27]
[[music plays, phrase "it's time" does not repeat]]

[00:33:42]
Okay, now go back and, do it to it just, do it again, repeating the first words again.

[00:33:48]
[[music plays]]

[00:33:52]
So he removes- he cuts the volume on one, has the other going, listens on the headphones while he picks the needle up, sets it back on the first record, gets it- queues it up to the right place, all the while listening in one ear through the headphones, until he's got it where he wants it. Lets the, lets the, piece play just long enough, until he wants to switch to the next turntable, and does the exact same process.

[00:34:20]
[[music plays]]

[00:34:36]
Kev, could you show us an example of speed mixing, and before you do, give us an idea of what exactly that is.

{SPEAKER name="Kevin"}[Cosmic Kev]
There's um, two forms of speed mixing. Speed mixing is the process of moving from one side of the turntable to the other, backspinning the record, turning the record around, making- when you let the record go, make sure it's on the pattern of the other record, the beat of the other record. You see, there's two forms, there's a slow speed mixing and there's a fast speed mixing. The slow speed mixing is to make sure you never get off the beat. There's a fast type of speed mixing which are really used in shows, battles, or competitions, where as though when you go fast you can make the record go faster than the pace it is, repeat itself to a real fast pace of speed. Now, I'm going to give you an example of a slow type of speed mixing, where as though, you're going to notice, every time I bring the word back in, when I turn the record around, it's going to be on beat, and in the second example I give you it's going to be, it's going to get off the beat but it's real fast, the words are going to go faster than the pace of the record.

[00:35:42]
{SPEAKER name="Host"}
So when you're getting off beat, that sort of speed mixing is more used for show, that gives you a little flash and is used a lot in competitions. Not as much for actual dancing, because you don't want to through the dancers off.
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