Steve Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I've been trying to find some old tapes of my scratching from the mid-80s without much success, but I came across this tonight. It's a remix of sorts that I made in 1989. I had 2 BSR decks and mixed the MC Duke acapella with a beat. The decks didn't have pitch controls, so I had to just push the acapella to keep it in time. I recorded that on a tape, then played that back and did some scratching over the top on the word "freedom" during the choruses. It's all recorded through the external mic of a tape deck, so it's not the best sound quality and the levels are all over the place, but check it out, haha: - .:. CLICK ME!! .:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wax On Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Thats ill, love the cutting style! I like how you can hear the switch noise, its like how sometimes a slightly worn crossfader on 90s hip hop adds a bit of something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdiggla Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Ah man! That's not bad! I thought it was gonna be really funny but that's legit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 Cheers for listening! I really want to find this other tape with the older stuff on it. There's one bit where I demonstrate fast (for me at the time) stabs to 2ndHand and the scratching gets faster and faster until you hear a bang - it's the sound of me knocking an ashtray on the floor and cigarette ends go everywhere - then 2ndHand laughs like Ricky Gervais laughs on the podcasts, to the point where he can hardly breathe. I'm dying to hear it again, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d00ban Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Quality! I was 4 when you were doing this, madness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 this is wicked steve. i wish i had some of my old stuff back, i've lost 99% of everything i've ever done over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 15, 2011 Author Share Posted March 15, 2011 Cheers gents. I bought a new Walkman just so I could rip tapes with a view to getting some old scratch files on my PC. My tape collection is big, but well organised, although I hadn't really looked at it in years. I got the Walkman and went to grab the scratch tapes (they're all numbered, so I knew which ones I wanted), but all of them were missing - and they were the only tapes missing from my entire collection. The only person I can think of that would have borrowed them is 2ndHand, cos they're just tapes full of us scratching and pissing about and none of my other friends are even into scratching so I can't see who else I would have lent them to, but he insists that he hasn't got them, so I have no clue where they are. If I did let someone borrow them, it must have been years ago. I'm still hoping they'll turn up somewhere, but I have a feeling they're gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djfoly Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 thats just srt8 rad! cheers steve! freedom brother! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doppelkorn Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Haha ill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 nice work steve! thanks for posting, hope u find those tapes aswell man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Good shit steve. What year did you start scratchin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Dope! I was 1 then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djfoly Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 ^^^^ which is why you think C2C are better than the invisibl skratch pikls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 15, 2011 Author Share Posted March 15, 2011 Good shit steve. What year did you start scratchin?About 86 mate. I used to cut cross-handed on a deck that had a volume control on the right-hand side. I got stuff like chirps, forwards and marches down, but the volume control had about a 5 inch cut-in, so transforms were impossible, lol. I then modded a BSR deck with a button, and that was used to make the file I posted here. I used BSR decks until about 1990, then I knocked it on the head until I got my first PDX about 10 years later, then I had to start learning to cut with a fader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doppelkorn Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Good shit steve. What year did you start scratchin?About 86 mate. I used to cut cross-handed on a deck that had a volume control on the right-hand side. I got stuff like chirps, forwards and marches down, but the volume control had about a 5 inch cut-in, so transforms were impossible, lol. I then modded a BSR deck with a button, and that was used to make the file I posted here. I used BSR decks until about 1990, then I knocked it on the head until I got my first PDX about 10 years later, then I had to start learning to cut with a fader. So you didn't cut for like 10 years? The whole of the 90s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 Yeah man, it must have been about 10 years. My BSR deck fucked up and started tearing through records - an hour of cutting and records were cue burned to shit. A new stylus didn't help, so I ended up putting it up in the loft. I got hold of another BSR deck, (a different model to my original one) but it would skip really badly, so that one was binned. The only shop in town that sold the replacement stylii stopped stocking them too and there was no online shopping back then, so it was game over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doppelkorn Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Man, good that you came back to it though. What did you do for 10 years? Watch 2.4 children? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike-L Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 this is really good! I love the rawness and energy from that era of scratching. Some young un's miss out on so much style by rushing to get crabs and flares going on. In fact i think new dj's should be banned from using a fader for the first couple of months . Ive been teaching recently - trying to get people who want to learn orbits to practice simple things they cant do - like baby scratches in triplets or baby scratches with swing (hopefully with a more bit more politeness than that sounds) . makes me want to see if i have any tapes around too . I used to a radio show back in 96 (just after i got my technics) , i did a quick mix set to for a dj comp which id love to hear again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbay Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 wow, that's awesome. tight cuts! like dooban i was only 4 at the time, daaaaaamn.. i love the transforming switch pop/click sound too. adds to the real OG feel of it all. gives me the warm n fuzzies like when i hear jazzy jeff cut it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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