Does anyone enjoy scratching over Dubstep&Grime?

nozl · Post by **nozl** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:02 am

Not blazin' it at every second that is, but carefully complimenting the sound of the tune (preferably with a good fx unit with a nice amount of delay/reverb runnin)?

Or does everyone just mix?

bze · Post by **bze** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:45 am

Well why not if the dj can do his job. Haven't heard much scrazin' or effect units on mixtapes or broadcasts though.

nozl · Post by **nozl** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:10 pm

We were cutting while the other mixed at Dizzee last month, and we thought it went quite well. Apparently people who were there really liked it.

Just seein' who else can cut that listens to this style of music and if they often layer it over the top of the beats with a bit of fx when played live.

nirz · Post by **nirz** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:42 pm

alreet nozl ! john was telling me about that thing you 2 were doing with Thunder using the hotkey loop points on the cdj and scratching over the top of it, sounds awesome... do you know if you are gonna do any of that tonight at arcane?

nozl · Post by **nozl** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:40 pm

Yo!

I'm not going to arcane tonight, but Rich 'll be doing his thing one of the rooms... djin' that is. Whether he does the hotkey beats I dunno. He's rather addicted to it god bless his cotton sox.

For god sake get on his case to do some cuttin'....... cos he is really good, but he's really paranoid like "ohh I don't know.... people won't want to hear it just now..."

So I'm always like "shut the fuck up and get on with it man!"...

He'll be doin' a bit of dubstep at some point though.

captain easychord · Post by **captain easychord** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:59 pm

would like to see more turntablism in general from grime DJ's

imagine doubles of say, 'destruction' chopped up

n-type · Post by **n-type** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:02 pm

Yer man I recon more turnabalism in Grime would be could. In my opinion its perfect for beat jugglers as it is easy to chop and alot of the sounds repeat on bars. Scratching on dubstep might be alright but I recon u could run the risk of ruining the certain laid back, but dancy vibes on dubstep tracks, maybe mixing 2 different vibes could be massivly effective though?

It needs sumone good @ scraching to show off the style. It might sound wicked! who knows. I will look fwd to hearing sumone buss that in future. Im always up for hearing new styles, variety is the spice of life, me old mucka.

I got a couple of scratch records and used to try it on jungle back in the day, but i was pretty fucking shit!

i do like good exucuted scratching though! as long as its clean cut heavy patterns with interesting samples. I want to learn proper but i dont get enough time to do that now.

Hype was always my favorite scratcher, cos i like his selection as well as turntablism. and some jungle aint far of sum dubstep. (in my opinion)

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alex bk-bk · Post by **alex bk-bk** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:42 pm

i think theres got to be a reason for it being there. guess if its all FXed out it could work as another dubby element, but i can also see this taking away from the minimalism of certain tracks. Always thought scratching at tempos above hiphop tended to sound a bit cheesy, dunno...

nirz · Post by **nirz** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:05 pm

The NozL boys can scratch like you wouldnt believe ! two of the best DJ's I have ever had the pleasure to bearwitness. I think dubstep and grime are both perfect for scratching unlike drum and bass which is a little to fast and means scratches have to be blazingly fast and cheesy ... but the stuff kirky and rich have been doing is what you could call tasteful and not ott.
rich played some dubstep last night but there was nee cdj so no hot key mashup bidness... i finnished a two hour drum and bass set with thunder-Vex'd and it went off !!! big up to anyone who went to arcane last night !

nozl · Post by **nozl** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:13 pm

The NozL boys can scratch like you wouldnt believe ! two of the best DJ's I have ever had the pleasure to bearwitness. I think dubstep and grime are both perfect for scratching unlike drum and bass which is a little to fast and means scratches have to be blazingly fast and cheesy ... but the stuff kirky and rich have been doing is what you could call tasteful and not ott.

Always thought scratching at tempos above hiphop tended to sound a bit cheesy, dunno...

140bpm is perfect to scratch to, because really you're just scratching at 70bpm then double timing to get 140bpm. Its a nice blend, and as long as you be selective with samples/tune/fx and length of scratch time it can work pretty well.

Horrorshow for instance is good to cut to. But even that must be slow/dark moody vibe patterns , if you get the jist.

But then we're scratch nerdz aswell so our thinking may be slightly wayward. :shock:

nozl · Post by **nozl** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:24 pm

oh yeah.... and Rich said that when he put dubstep on in his room in arcane..... it cleared the dancefloor!!

Wont stop us playin' it though

There will be some time in the not-so-distant future though that those same folk will be on the dancefloor cos they think its cool and its the in-thing to be associated with.

What can you do?

dubmugga · Post by **dubmugga** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:29 pm

Alex bk-bk wrote:Always thought scratching at tempos above hiphop tended to sound a bit cheesy, dunno...

tipper = cheesy ???

I think not !!!

Does anyone enjoy scratching over Dubstep&Grime?

Does anyone enjoy scratching over Dubstep&Grime?

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