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Tactile Scratch Records... Here is a sample of what I've been up to, the Rane 12 and Phase moved the timeline up so I cooked a few of these up and putting them out into the flow. www.djfocus.com The design being used is available for Free via my website, it's a Vector / EPS File. You can use it or change it up, try your own designs.. There is no real standard pattern for these yet, I just go of me experience and intuition, if enough of you experiment maybe over time we can agree on the common elements to keep. What are Tactile Scratch Records for? 1. Grip / Orientation 2. Visual Cues 3. Textured Created Sounds (Hydroplanes/Ripples) Keep in mind these are not the only method, I've Sprayed,Brushed,Glued and etc.etc...etc.. Give that a try too.. In my opinion as Scratching / Scratch Arts are becoming more refined and on it's own lane we can reach new levels. One of my biggest annoyances helping to design Dj products was that they needed to be designed for DJing/Mix and Scratching...That always limited what could be done for pure Scratch Artistry...

cool man, and fair play for putting the designs out and encouraging experimentation! kinda reminds me of this thing where they guy sold stickers so you can make notches in the run out grooves and play them for your own amusement.... on that Mushroom one i can imagine the but thats been left blank could be played and then mad stufff happens if you use hydroplane style techniques whilst the songs playing.

urgh! stanstead is a fuckin asshole of an airport because it's 5 hours from everywhere! but yeah it's the only place that regularly flies to stockholm right? well if it makes you feel better, i can reveal now that Motek will be on stripper duties so you're in for a real treat

As if the cookie warnings were not enough, now we're gonna be seeing this type of shit everywhere..... Hopefully someone makes a browser add-on to deal with this.

looks really cool Focus, damn that's mad sy!

This is a plus point for the dirtstyle stuff... hee haw being a good example. the sound had really nice gritty characteristics thats perfect for scratching and was indeed nice and loud. I'm trying to figure out what the best thing to do is to get a nice characteristic like this... I'm gonna have to try throwing everything througfh a classic sampler maybe. through trial and error I'm gradually honing some sort of best practices but there are so many variables. Moschops' new record is sounding really nice though, it's got that grittyness without just being distorted, and its well loud which is always a bonus. Theres also the whole thing of doing ultrapitch which goes against so many rules of audio quality control that it probably makes all cutting engineers roll their eyes...

I actually "collected" scratch vinyl back in the day because of this. I figured at some point all these battle records would disappear and it would be hard to find unthrashed copies. Somewhere around 2000-2001 I found a place in Australia that had original presses of a lot of the Dirtstyle catalog and I scooped a lot of titles. I got others on eBay. I don't have everything by a long shot but I did find original presses of most of the important ones. In all honesty, a lot of them weren't recorded all that well in the first place. If you listen closely you'll hear hum and other things but the early presses are usually nice and loud. The one that always eluded me was that I heard that a small number of Hot Horny & Barely Legal Breaks was put out on Dirtstyle right before Dave jumped ship. I've never even been able to confirm it was true.

I got the most ridiculous SMS the other day from NHS-NoReply Dear Rob blah blah blah to continue to receive important messages for your healthcare from the surgery reply start or stop if you do not wish to receive these messages it's a no reply number and impossible to reply from my phone lol, good job they're not important messages, oh wait.. edit - ha, after 3 or 4 days they've sent an apology sms!

Maybe it was just the 2 or 3 I bought, but yes definitely compared to any other digital files I have, bought or recorded, they're sub-par. Bad enough for that to be the deciding moment to never buy product from Thud ever again.

Nah, I paid for them right out of the Thud store... can't even remember which ones I had, but they definitely sounded much worse than recording the knackered records I had of the same stuff. Let's all thank the baby jesus that C&P Records saved us all and we don't have to choose between 96kbps 'clean sounds' and cue burnt homemade wavs any more!

For $350 an hour I can do some recording. If everyone pools their money I could get some pretty nice stuff for myself.

Where's Ghost Dad when you need him? Passes?

All of them be boss, D-Money, it's hard to make a bad choice. Zarecord 1 has beats on side 2 and Za 2 has a couple of beats on side 2. improvise wisely has loads of instrument samples which you might not want if you are lookin for regular scratch samples and Simah's has also got instrument samples as well as trad samples on side one and beats on side 2. All rest of the records are just scratch samples. Also, can you gently punch your nuts for having the records and not playing them?.

this is gold lol