Sliding the record back and forth underneath the needle created the rhythmic effect called "scratching".
"I needed a way to have the platter continuously spinning while I'm moving the record back and forth," he says.
Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc began playing block parties in the Bronx in 1973 using twin turntables, mixing two copies of the same record back and forth.
Scratching is the distinctive flutter and scrawl of sounds in hip-hop made by the DJ moving a record back and forth under the needle with his or her fingertips.
He didn't want to hear what she had to say so he just kind of rubbed the record back and forth and created this scratching sound that drowned out whatever she was saying.
A turntablist will, for example, take a favorite part of a song, and will make that "break" into a song of its own by moving the record back and forth on the turntable, or by playing the same record on two turntables.
The two traded the record back and forth until the 2007 Toronto Waterfront Marathon, when Michal joggled a 2 50 12 in a race that he described to me as excruciating.
Then turn the record back and forth through the beat position to locate it precisely.
If you don't have regular records, then try and wear in the record a little by finding the samples that you like and then pushing the record back and forth to get the needle and the groove.
