quoted 3 lines Grandmaster Flash>Grandmaster Flash
>took his cue from Herc and developed cutting skills etc. (There is a lot
>more to this but it really isn't my point.)quoted 4 lines I>I
>am guessing that part of the history of hip-hop culture has roots in
>the gay disco club scene but this is very difficult to trace since both
>DJ cultures are historys that were?are unrecorded.
Flash's cutting skills developed from his rivalry with Herc, apparently.
There's an an interview I've read with Flash where he talks about going
to one of Herc's parties, where Herc called him out and demonstrated what
a *real* sound system was supposed to sound like (Herc's speakers were
famous as the loudest in New York's club circuit at that point) - "most
of all, you must have BASS." Anyway, Flash went on to say that, thus
motivated, he turned to a disco DJ for pointers. That DJ, who either
went unnamed or I've forgotten his name, showed Flash how to get the
beats to match perfectly every time by cueing up the next record on
headphones (Apparently hip-hop DJing was a very much hit and miss style
up to this point, at least as far as transitions go). Flash found the
sound of moving the record back and forth to find a cue point interesting,
and scratching was born.
At least, that's how he told the story - there are those who say that
Flash's place in the history of hip-hop DJ technique has been overstated
in the 'official' histories.
C.
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