'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 ...

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 ...

It’s debatable who came up with the term “turntablism” — it could have been Daly City’s DJ Disk, or the more widely credited DJ Babu, from Los Angeles. But everyone can agree that the term ...

Art Basel visitors can expect to hear scratching sounds coming from the old-fashioned turntables at Las Rosas this Thursday. Scratches That Matter, debuting during Miami Art Week, is a party designed ...

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 ...

If you've ever fancied becoming a DJ, then an event happening later this month will give you the chance to give it a try and see if you've got what it takes. Leicester-based arts and education ...

Turntablism, as it’s come to be known, is the reinvention of the deejay in the face of hip-hop’s bloated glamor game. Through competitions, deejays have created their own star system, and the ...

SCRATCH: Documentary. Starring Qbert, Afrika Bambaataa, Rob Swift, Grand Wizard Theodore, DJ Shadow. Directed by Doug Pray. (R. 91 minutes. At the Lumiere and the Shattuck in Berkeley.) Filmmaker Doug ...

The humble turntable has put music in a spin over the last 50 years - giving rise to a whole new genre of sound, artistic skill and culture. The turntable has been used as a musical instrument since ...