Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, KQED’s story series on Bay Area hip-hop history. On an overcast November day in Oakland, DJ Shortkut – a member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz DJ ...

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 ...

'Turntablism' - scratching and mixing vinyl records - is now an advertising cliché for anything hip and urban, and many still regard any guff about the technique of the turntablist with raised ...

Among the many sounds at Boston's renowned Berklee College of Music, where the only music on the curriculum is contemporary, one could say its latest is a sort of throwback to the past Today, the ...

After a decade as one of the most consistently original groups in the Rhymesayers rap collective, Twin Cities-formed rap duo Eyedea & Abilities (Micheal Larsen and Gregory "Max" Keltgen) went their ...

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 ...

Cutting – the DJ has two decks spinning the same record which have a percussion break, called a breakbeat. The technique allows for the break to be repeated as often as required. Since this is a live ...

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 ...