Quiz 10 hip hop

Who came up with the word ‘turn tablist’?

DJ Babu

When did the term ‘turn tablist’ come to be?

1995

What was the prototype of turn tabling?

Jamaican tradition ‘dubbing’ from the 1970s

2 dubbing legends:

King Tubby & Lee ‘scratch’ Perry

Who was the first dj to blend records together?

Francis Grasso

The technical term for blending records?

slip cueing(synchronizing the switch bay between records)

Who came up with scratching & baby scratching?

Grand Wizard Theodore

3 techniques:

1. Flare scratch

2. Transformer scratch

3. The crab

Grand Mixer DTX

• Was on the Herbie Hancock Video Rockit

• From the 1984 grammies

What & when were the first turntablist albums?:

‘Return fo the DJ’, 1995

Crews on Return of the DJ:

• DJ Babu

• The Beat Junkiez

• Invisible Scratch Piklz

• The Cut Chemist

• DJ Ztrip

What is beat juggling?

A combination of mixing, cutting, scratching, and sampling occurring simultaneously

What is a turntablist’s basic setup?

• Two Turntables

• A Mixer

• Head phonesand

  • sound system/PA/Speakers

What is the substitution and/or alteration of a sample’s original philosophical theme?

Metaporical Manipulation

The art of searching for albums, beats, to “harvest” for samples, is called:

digging/crate digging

Who is the best “digger”?

DJ Shadow