As one of the finest DJs alive, Rob Swift has repped turntablism far and wide. He's won DJ contests, starred in the all-DJ supergroup X-ecutioners and even the odd GAP commercial, all while releasing ...

Turntablism is the art of using the turntable as a musical instrument. DJ Shortkut explains turntablism in 15 levels of difficulty, from easy to complex. Shortkut starts with the very basics of ...

Legendary DJ Jam Master Jay has founded the Scratch DJ Academy. Already in it’s 3rd semester, the six week courses teach upcoming DJ’s the history of turntablism & DJ’ing techniques. "I’m really a fan ...

Mike Relm is a pioneer working in the medium of video turntablism. Mashing up snippets of video and music in a live setting and incorporating the scratching and other DJ tricks of traditional ...

Every time Z-Trip returns to the Valley, it’s more than just an opportunity to revisit his old stomping grounds. Back in the ’90s, the Queens-born and Phoenix-raised superstar DJ, turntablist and ...

In a mesmerizing point-of-view video, DJ Angelo demonstrates the intricate process of blending tracks from seven vinyl records. "Turntablism" was coined, apparently, to distinguish between a DJ who ...

VAIL, Colorado “-DJ Solomon’s first gig was a middle school dance. Now, 20 years later, this San Francisco-based DJ specializes in what he calls “Pop Turntablism” ” an emerging genre known as mashup ...

SCRATCH: Documentary. Starring Qbert, Afrika Bambaataa, Rob Swift, Grand Wizard Theodore, DJ Shadow. Directed by Doug Pray. (R. 91 minutes. At the Lumiere and the Shattuck in Berkeley.) Filmmaker Doug ...

DJ Harvey Bassett’s resume reads like the very history of vanguard music since the ’70s. Born and bred in Cambridge, UK, he was an original ’77 punk rocker whose band The Ersatz saw rotation on John ...

Sometimes the biggest dogs in OC hip-hop aren't the ones with the loudest bark. Two decades after moving from Hawaii to OC, DJ Great Daine's become the quiet master behind the turntables during his ...