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BTW..., this debunks the claim that DJ Grandmaster Flash was the first to create music by scratching.
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No one with a knowledge of hip hop history believe GrandmaaterFlash was the first scratcher BUT the first scratcher on vinyl was African
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lol what is that? The above sounded like the banging on a piece of vinyl by a baby? And far from rhythmical, not even a record, but a tape.
Scratching is rhythmically making groove sounds.
DJ-ing (the cutting, mixing and scratching of recorded materials).
Born in Kingston,Jamaica,West indies,moving to New York in 1967. Kool Herc owns the rights to the accolade "first Hip Hop D.J. Illustrating the connections between reggae and rap,Herc brought his sound system to block parties in the Bronx from 1969 onwards. By 1975 he was playing the brief rhythmic sections of records which would come to be termed "breaks",at venues like the Hevalo in the Bronx. His influence was pivotal,with Grandmaster Flash building on his innovations to customised the modern Hip Hop DJ approach.
Turntablism refers to the extended boundaries and techniques of normal DJing innovated by hip hop. One of the few first hip hop DJ's was Kool DJ Herc, who created hip hop through the isolation of "breaks" (the parts of albums that focused solely on the beat). In addition to developing Herc's techniques, DJs Grandmaster Flowers, Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizard Theodore, and Grandmaster Caz made further innovations with the introduction of scratching.
Traditionally, a DJ will use two turntables simultaneously. These are connected to a DJ mixer, an amplifier, speakers, and various other pieces of electronic music equipment. The DJ will then perform various tricks between the two albums currently in rotation using the above listed methods. The result is a unique sound created by the seemingly combined sound of two separate songs into one song. Although there is considerable overlap between the two roles, a DJ is not the same as a producer of a music track.[53]
In the early years of hip hop, the DJs were the stars, but their limelight[citation needed] has been taken by MCs since 1978, thanks largely to Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash's crew, the Furious Five. However, a number of DJs have gained stardom nonetheless in recent years. Famous DJs include Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Mr. Magic, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Scratch from EPMD, DJ Premier from Gang Starr, DJ Scott La Rock from Boogie Down Productions, DJ Pete Rock of Pete Rock & CL Smooth, DJ Muggsfrom Cypress Hill, Jam Master Jay from Run-DMC, Eric B., DJ Screw from the Screwed Up Click and the inventor of the Chopped & Screwed style of mixing music,Funkmaster Flex, Tony Touch, DJ Clue, and DJ Q-Bert. The underground movement of turntablism has also emerged to focus on the skills of the DJ.
Mixtape DJs have also emerged creating mixtapes with different artists and getting exclusive songs and putting them on one disc, such as DJ White Owl, DJ Skee, DJ Dramaand DJ Whoo Kid, DJ Scholar.
William Seward Burroughs II also known by his pen name William Lee(1914-1997) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer or performance poet. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century."1
Burroughs was always far out on the periphery of my life associated as he was with the origins of Beat poetry from the mid-to-late ‘40s when I was but a child. But in my late middle age, the years from 50 to 60--1994 to 2004--when I began to turn to poetry in the constellation of my interests and activities, Burroughs started to appear in the backdrop of my reading. Today I saw a doco on Burroughs.2–Ron Price with thanks to 1Penguin Modern Classics 2003 edition of Junky, and 2William Burroughs, SBSONE TV, 9 June, 2:20-3:55 p.m., 9 June 2012.
You achieved fame and glory, but at what a price with heroin addiction, murder and goodness knows what else under your belt.
You began writing when I was just one year old, published your famous Naked Lunch the same year I joined the Baha’i Faith,1 and you graduated from Harvard in 1936 right at the start of the planning for the Baha’i teaching Plan I’ve been part of some 60 years!!
You also received a $200/month sum from your parents until you published The Ticket That Exploded and Nova Express…...It was then that I started travelling for the Canadian Baha’i community in 1962…..You published:
Junkie: Confessions of Drug Addict at the start of the Kingdom of God on Earth in 1953--little did anyone know about either your book or that Kingdom. I trust you are now enjoying some of that freedom from those slings and arrows of an outrageous fortune which plagued you on & on during your life in that tempestuous 20th century.
1 In 1959. Burroughs wrote a total of 18 novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books of his interviews and letters have been published. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films. “The greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift,” he was sometimes called. Norman Mailer declared him to be: "the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius."
Ron Price 10 June 2012
-------------------- married for 45 years, a teacher for 35, a writer & editor for 13, and a Baha'i for 53(in 2012) Posts: 6 | From: George Town Tasmania Austrralia | Registered: Jul 2006
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