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Transcription: [00:41:00]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} Why is it that you would have two turntables?
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"} The reason for two turntable is so that we can keep a party going at a steady pace. If we only had one turntable, we have to take time off to change the record, and by the time we got another record on and got it started, the party woulda been--anybody would've been sit down.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} Now, with two turntables, you're obviously able to move from one record to another record, yet often when DJs work, they use two copies of the same record, one disc on each table. How exactly--why exactly do you do that?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"} The reason a DJ use two of the same record's cause you might buy a album that only might got about ten seconds worth of music in it wors--worth listenin' to. So what you would do with two tables is move from side to side and keep the party going at a steady pace and trying to keep the record on beat at the same time.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} So what we're talking about, then, is a sequence of music on an entire record which is particularly hot or which is particularly good for rapping. For example, a small instrumental section before a vocal on a record.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} Now if you're working with rappers, clearly the rappers do not want to rap over another vocal, a prerecorded vocal. They need a clear, solid rhythm track. So what the DJ will do: take out a rhythmic track, a sequence of maybe five to ten seconds, from one disc, have two copies of that disc, one on each of the turntables, play it on one, then switch over to the other, switching back to the first to the second to the first to the second and endlessly repeating that one small sequence of music, moving from turntable to turntable and never missing a beat.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} Now, this is the most basic of the skills of the party DJ and the street DJ. Sly, could you give us an example of just this sort of work, moving back from one, to the other, back to the first?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} Could you start maybe by playing us the piece that you're going to play over on both sides and letting us hear a little more than what that sounds like?
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[[music]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} Okay, that's the original disc. Now what he'll do is move from one to the other, he has that same record on both turntables
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