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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Let's switch from one side to the other here, and let me ask a slide question about the use of 2 turntables.
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A lot of times when you see a DJ working with double turntables and you
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look at what's on the 2 turntables, you realize that he's got the same record on each.
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He's got 2 copies of the same disc, so that that record is on each turnable, and
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he's moving from turntable to turntable. Now, he's not waiting,
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as DJs with radio stations used to do and still for the most part do,
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running a record through, waiting until that record ends, and then as it ends,
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segue-ing, lowering the volume on that one and increasing the volume on the other turntable.
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It's not that at all, that's too easy, that's not an artistic form, that's simply
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a very basic skill to be able to blend from 1 record, let it play all the way through,
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then let it blend into another and as you start that one at the beginning.
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Rather, when you've got 2 records of the same sort, of the same record,
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actually, the same song, the same piece recorded by the same artist,
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on those turntables, you move back and forth from one turntable to the other,
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using a piece of that song. Now, why is it that you would use the same record on each slide?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
The reason for the same copy, the same copy of 2 records on each turntable is because
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sometimes when you buy a record only might have about 5 seconds in the record worth listening to, so
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with the 2 turntables you'll be able to move back and forth, keeping that same piece of the music going
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and never missing a beat. And Cosmic Kev [[??]] is gonna give ya'll an example.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
So what you're doing here, then, is you've got a short sequence of music,
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you're moving from 1 turntable, playing that sequence,
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then lowering the volume on that mixer, lowering the volume on that record on the mixer,
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while you increase the volume on the other mixer
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to come up with that same piece that you just played on the first record.
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You've got the other turntable ready to go,
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and you're moving back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, creating an endless rhythm.
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The artistry, of course, comes in creating that rhythm so that the dancing audience
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never knows when you've moved from one to the other,
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and so that nobody is ever put off beat. So you're moving turntable to turntable, record to record,
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but you're never allowing yourself to miss a beat.
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