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[speaker 1]: So what he was doing was going back and forth from turntable to turntable scratching each record, moving it backwards and forwards to overlay the rhythm on the other one until he got it queued to the point where he wanted it. Then he'd let that one go, change the volume control and move to the other disc doing the same thing. The group Grand Masters of Funk are not only great scratch artists but they do something which is a little bit different. The rapper Perry P here does a mouth scratch which is rather incredible. The scratch is become a popular sound on the dance floor now. It's hard to find a good scratch artist though, who can keep the rhythyms. So often when a DJ gets up there and starts scratching the record the rhythm, the beat goes off and the dancers are put off. However Kev is not only - not only has no problem with that but now works with a rapper who creates his own vocal scratches. Such that the two periodically will challenge each other. Perry, why don't you take the mic and give us an idea of what you can do here. Give us a little scratch.

[00:45:08]
[speaker 2]: Ay Kev do this. [vocal scratching] [disc scratching] [vocal scratching] [disc scratching][vocal scratching] [disc scratching] That's it.
[speaker 1]: Alright let's have a hand for the two. [applause] Now it's not all the time that you're mixing two copies of the same record. There's another art called blending. And in blending what you do is you have a different disc on each turntable. A different song by a different artist. And you either move from one to the other, back and forth. Always keeping the correct beat, never loosing a beat or you put both on at the same time. Getting them timed perfectly so that their beats match and turning the volume up all the way. Now the way that you match the rhythyms when you're doing this sort of blending is by using the pitch control on the turntable. Kev can you tell us what the pitch control is and exactly how it works.
[speaker 3]: Okay the pitch control and turntable they either slows the record down at the beat that it usually be playing. The beats are like 220, 220 beats per second. You can drop it down to 19 beats per second through the pitch control. The pitch control either slows it down or speeds it up. Now if you have two records and - two different records, excuse me, and one record is faster then the record right here, with your pitch control you can speed this up to the speed of that one. To the exa - to match the exact beat on this record. And make it go the same - it make it come out the same sound and beat.

[00:45:56]
[speaker 1]: Could you put on a one record and simply move the pitch control from slow up to fast.
[speaker 3]: Oh Okay
[speaker 1]: To give us an example of how that sounds and what sort of range you've got in changing the rhythm.