SkratchFest: Art of Turntablism
Thu, 10/15/2015 - 4:06pm
Dj Hypnotize is putting together a festival event called SkratchFest. Taking place on Feb. 27th 2016, SkratchFest will be celebrating the DJ and showcasing the Art of Turntablism and Skratching. We caught up with him recently to find out more:
WHY HAVE YOU BEEN SO DRAWN TO SKRATCHING?
Dj Hypnotize: I love it so much, for me it's therapeutic. I love the way music has the power to move people. Skratching is beautiful and a pure form of expression. I like all the endless possibilities and the fact that we are still writing history draws me to help create and spread awareness about it and share my gifts of music with the world... I've been Skratching for almost 20 years and my style is improving everyday. I don't plan on retiring anytime soon so be on the lookout!
Dj Hypnotize is putting together a festival event called SkratchFest. Taking place on Feb. 27th 2016, SkratchFest will be celebrating the DJ and showcasing the Art of Turntablism and Skratching. We caught up with him recently to find out more:
WHY HAVE YOU BEEN SO DRAWN TO SKRATCHING?
Dj Hypnotize: I love it so much, for me it's therapeutic. I love the way music has the power to move people. Skratching is beautiful and a pure form of expression. I like all the endless possibilities and the fact that we are still writing history draws me to help create and spread awareness about it and share my gifts of music with the world... I've been Skratching for almost 20 years and my style is improving everyday. I don't plan on retiring anytime soon so be on the lookout!
Thud Rumble and Intel Edison are Reinventing the Turntable
Mon, 09/14/2015 - 10:23am
“The modern DJ setup has always required a laptop, and it’s a barrier for the DJ to engage with their instrument - and that’s the first thing we want to eliminate… Our goal right now is to reinvent the turntable. It’s endless what can be done if technology can lift an art form up.” - Yogafrog, Thud Rumble
DJ Qbert is working with Thud Rumble and the Intel Edison team to develop a better turntable for DJs to skratch with. They are building a new design which will eliminate the need to connect a laptop to a mixer in order to run Digital Vinyl Systems like Serato and Traktor. This would be a gamecharger for the DJ industry since currently most everyone uses a laptop to run digital music files through traditional turntables. The final products have yet to be seen, and we are far from seeing anything ready at the consumer level. This is just the beginnings of a very exciting development stage, and we've only just begun to see a taste of what's possible with this new technology.
In other news, Qbert is working with D-Styles and Shortkut on a full length album! Invisibl Skratch Piklz fans have been waiting 20 years for something like this - click here to read more. The plan is to perform the album at the Red Bull Thre3style World Finals in Tokyo on September 20!
Sample Music Festival 2015 Online Contest
Thu, 08/20/2015 - 5:37pm
Topics: skratch, turntablism
The first Sample Music Festival is being organized by QSU Guest Professor Alex Sonnenfeld and will take place October 11-12 in Berlin, Germany. There’s an online contest going on now to promote the festival, watch the video and read the description to get the full details. Prizes include Stanton turntables, Native Maschine, Reloop keypad, Magma DJ backpack and many more! Le Jad is producing an exclusive sample pack for the contest, click here to get it!
Last day to enter is on October 11, so good luck! Learn more about this year's Sample Music Festival below.
Turntablism Feature: "Scratch Obsession"
Wed, 01/14/2015 - 5:44pm
Attention turntable enthusists and skratch nerds: what we have here is a really great article from Dan Leach (aka Danno9999) titled: SCRATCH OBSESSION, or Plato and the Art of Sound-Time - featuring DJ Woody, DJ Chile, Jon1st, Alex Sonnenfeld and more. Dan goes deep into the crazy world of skratching what make it such a unique form of music. It contains some interesting analysis and media, including some fascinating slow motion footage of the crossfader. Check the link to read it and peep DJ Woody's exclusive routine for the occassion below, which as you'll learn in the article contains 435 crossfader movements and 333 vinyl movements!
"Well, it's a very strange musical instrument where you have the power to grab sound and play with it's time, pitch, move it backwards, etc. Not to mention that it sounds super ridiculously funky and insane and bizarre and groovy all rolled in one, times a zillion other things it can do that are yet undiscovered!" - DJ Qbert
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