How I said before, one of the elements of hip- hop that it had had a great evolution through the years on this kind of music are the D'js. Hip- hop D-jing or turntablism, actually create this culture because the precursor of hip-hop was Afrika Bambaataa one of the best hip-hop D'js of the world. D'js started these block parties on the blocks, they were on charge of animate and the music of this parties in the Bronx, U. S.. Scratch or turntablism starts with an origin story. Grand Wizard Theodore (the "Thomas Edison of the movement") recalls the day, way back in 1975, when his grandmother told him to turn down the music he was making in front of his Bronx River Houses apartment. In order to hear her, he put his hand on the turntable, holding the record in place. As he moved his hand, slightly, a new sound rose up. And so, he smiles, scratching was born. Since then the turtablism had had an amazing development because of the technologies like computers, music studios,softwares, mixers and many other features that had helped to make the scratchings more precises and with a higher quality.
Here is a trailer of a doccumentary about this branch of hip-hop: Scratch
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