As well as scratching & mixing I try and do a bit of production from time to time. Recently this has been focused mostly on synth driven drum & bass, while this style may not be to the taste of a lot of the readers here I thought I’d post a track anyway for those of you who might like it.
This is a great little trick I like to do with Serato ScratchLive. It can involve a little bit of juggling and looping but it doesn’t really have to, so long as you can drop a record in on time you can have endless fun with this.
As you can see I’m still playing with patterns which have evolved from the autobahn scratch. When I first saw the autobahn scratch on Skratchlopedia Breaktanica I just thought was a nice combo, I never thought it would open up the doors to so many interesting new scratches for me.
The autobahn scratch is a scratch DJ Rafik came up with and became well know with the release of Qbert’s Skratchlopedia Breaktanica DVD. On the video he demonstrates the scratch both fast and slow, after many people debating the subject a video was then released on the internet of Rafik showing that they were actually to slightly different variations. Since I showed how the slow autobahn is done in the One Record Movement, Many Possibilities article I just going to add this quick post to show faster one too.
Sometimes you find 1 little discovery opens up many possibilities. One such discovery for me was this simple record movement.
It’s simply a quick forward and backward, followed by a long forward, followed by a quick backward and forward, followed by a long forward.
I first started using when I decided to try and do a chip flare with a chirp at each end, this is done by doing a chirp followed by a 1 click flare followed by a chirp backwards followed by a 1 click flare backwards. After learning this pattern I started to find all the other possibilities. Here I’ll try and show you what possibilities are available with just this 1 record movement pattern.
I’m making the trek this year to get up to London for the UK DMC Finals, so if anyone else is going let me know and we can meet up!
There once was a time were every DJ had to work everything out for themselves because either certain things hadn’t been worked out yet or DJs didn’t want to share their latest trick. These days however there are many great resources to bring budding new DJs up to speed.
Here I just want to list a few of these resources which I have found to be the most useful and I think that they would help any DJ wanting to learn new skills.
As I’ve already mentioned in some of my other posts I’m a massive fan of Serato ScratchLive’s instant doubles setting. Here I’m going to explain why and some tricks which can be done using it.
When I first got Serato ScratchLive I though the obvious thing to do was record a little mix of some of the music I made over the years. It’s been posted on the net before but I thought I post it up here again.
This is another mix I did quite a while back, it’s basically a mix of funky uptempo 7″ singles.
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