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The forms of mixing we've seen so far are forms which have been popular in the vernacular in the, uh, black community now for a number of years.
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This style of mixing, these types of mixing, have been around for quite a while. What is coming more and more to the fore, at least in the recorded world
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what you're hearing more and more on commercial records, is the art called scratching.

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Now when people hear about scratching the first thing they think about is "Man, somebody's runnin' something across the record
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they're scratching the record, or they're running the needle some way to get that- that strange sound, that different sound."
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Actually what scratching consists of is keeping the volume up on a record using your hand to turn the disk
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backwards or forwards at a speed greater than - if you're moving forwards -
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greater than it would normally be going, so that you create a particular sound.
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Now if you've got a record on one turntable, you can mix the record on the other one so that by moving it with your hand, you create an entire new set of rhythms, which you overlay on the rhythms of the record.
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So basically what you're doing is creating polyrhythms.
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Letting one disc play while the other disc, you're adding scratches to it.
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Kev, I'd like- Kev is really one of the scratch masters of Philadelphia. He's built his reputation on scratching.
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Could you go ahead and give us an example of, of simple scratching first, without any mixing?
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Just have one record play and scratching the other. And then maybe going back and forth with some scratching.
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All the DJ's, while he's searching for the record, you can always tell a DJ
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not only by the fact that their walking around with turntables but they've got boxes and boxes of records
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which they carry with them. And for the festival both the Grand Masters of Funk and Grand Wizard Sly here
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brought up a total of maybe 4, 5 milk crates of albums.
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Only a tiny, tiny percentage of what they've got back in Philadelphia.
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[music; scratching]
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There's the scratch.
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[music and scratching continues]
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Let's have a hand for Cosmic Kev there for scratching.