A diamond of turntable precision is tucked into a Glendale brick-and-mortar DJ school, the Beat Junkie Institute of Sound, co-founded and co-operated by LA’s ...

Turntablism is the art of using the turntable as a musical instrument. DJ Shortkut explains turntablism in 15 levels of difficulty, from easy to complex. Shortkut starts with the very basics of ...

As one of the finest DJs alive, Rob Swift has repped turntablism far and wide. He's won DJ contests, starred in the all-DJ supergroup X-ecutioners and even the odd GAP commercial, all while releasing ...

What is it? An umbrella term used to define an attitude and set of techniques particular to a DJ using turntables and mixers as music-creating instruments in themselves rather than purely as devices ...

Among the many sounds at Boston's renowned Berklee College of Music, where the only music on the curriculum is contemporary, one could say its latest is a sort of throwback to the past Today, the ...

After a decade as one of the most consistently original groups in the Rhymesayers rap collective, Twin Cities-formed rap duo Eyedea & Abilities (Micheal Larsen and Gregory "Max" Keltgen) went their ...

'Turntablism' - scratching and mixing vinyl records - is now an advertising cliché for anything hip and urban, and many still regard any guff about the technique of the turntablist with raised ...

Mike Relm is a pioneer working in the medium of video turntablism. Mashing up snippets of video and music in a live setting and incorporating the scratching and other DJ tricks of traditional ...

Ask DJ Lynn Swann about hip hop’s humble beginnings and he’ll tell you it began with the deejay. “We had two turntables and a mike,” says Swann. Swann, along with 13 of turntablism’s finest, is ...

Cutting – the DJ has two decks spinning the same record which have a percussion break, called a breakbeat. The technique allows for the break to be repeated as often as required. Since this is a live ...