Check out Soundfly’s course with turntablist and sampling pioneer, RJD2: From Samples to Songs- he explores his creative process in detail, breaks down some of his most famous beats, and flips samples in real time. Let’s look at some of the most influential turntablist records and tracks featuring DJs cutting it up on the 1’s and 2’s.īut first, if you’re producing hip-hop beats and looking for inspiration, creative alternatives, and to explore the work of one of the most influential beat makers of this century, look no further. DJ battles became international competitions and turntablism evolved as many DJs became performers in their own right after developing special techniques to take record scratching to new heights.Īll of which have contributed to the legacy that continues today in instrumental hip-hop and beat making. This art form became synonymous with hip-hop in the 1980s and early ’90s, but was quickly overshadowed as audiences began focusing more on the emcees.īut music production continued to develop, and hip-hop continued to grow in popularity, and modern producers started crafting music that heavily relied on sampling, scratching, and manipulating records. Turntablism is the musical art form of scratching records and using the crossfader, found on most standard direct drive turntable setups to create new rhythms, sound effects, and compositional approaches by sampling and manipulating the audio on the records. Once he heard the sound of the record scratching, a new sound was born. The story goes he manually stopped a playing record with his hand to hear his mother calling him from another room. It was actually Grandmaster Flash’s apprentice, Grandmaster Theodore, who first discovered the technique of scratching records by accident. This crisis luckily led a burgeoning crop of young DJs to embrace the turntable as their instrument and music was changed forever. The defunding of New York City public schools as well as massive housing projects in the Bronx and other areas of New York left many young people without access to traditional instruments or music education. This was absolutely the case in the mid-1970s when DJs like DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, and more started to elevate the party experience by not only playing records, but manipulating them in real time. In the pursuit of new forms of creative expression, limitations can often lead to innovation. + Create and arrange original, instrumental hip-hop music from sampling pioneer RJD2 in his Soundfly course, RJD2: From Samples to Songs.
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