The scratch is a sound. As a technique, hip-hop artists scratch by moving a vinyl record back and forth by hand. Scratching interrupts the steady movement of the record and produces endless timbral ...

DJ Scratch is well rooted in Hip-Hop culture. As a member of EPMD, he produced the tracks “Funky Piano” and “Rampage” from 1991’s Business As Usual. He also worked on a remix for “I’m Mad” in addition ...

Bing Bong (Bong), The RZA and DJ Scratch have a new project on the way and to make things even more nostalgic it’s a project inspired by those Saturday afternoon Kung-Fu flicks that us older heads ...

BRIMMING with talent and energy, "Scratch" is a music documentary that should appeal to more than just hardcore hip-hop fans. Focusing on the evolution of the hip-hop DJ, or "turntablist," it mixes ...

Today (June 21), one of Hip-Hop’s most luxuriant and visually grandest DJs and producers, DJ Scratch turns 50 years old. You see, you ain’t really Hip-Hop if you have not experienced the prodigious ...

DJ Scratch was a central figure in the group EPMD, joining the crew in 1989 as their official man on the turntables. In the past year, the relationship between Grandmaster Scratch and EPMD has been ...

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That's just one of the morals of "Scratch," Doug Pray's engrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary about the birth and continuing artistic growth of the hip-hop DJ. The film opens with the ...

From Brooklyn to across the globe, DJ Scratch has etched his name all over. For over two decades, the Grammy-award winning producer and world-renowned turntablist has spun as many heads as he does ...