Sentence examples for scratch records from inspiring English sources

— in the late seventies, he'd been one of the first people to scratch records in performance, treating the turntable as an instrument".

On this night it seemed perfectly normal that a hard-rocking, country-music-loving, celebrity-dating star should jump behind the decks and scratch records like the underground hip-hop fiend he used to be.

They can even scratch records on a turntable like a hip-hop D.J. or adjust the separate tracks of "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics on a mixing board as a studio engineer does.

Within minutes, Mr. Sanchez and several other aspiring D.J.'s were sliding into their stations to scratch records and mix songs at dubspot, an electronic music production and D.J. school in Manhattan, where enrollment — now 300 — has doubled since it opened last year, largely because of the economic downturn.

Marclay, a fixture of the East Village music scene of the eighties, was particularly renowned as an avant-garde d.j. in the late seventies, he'd been one of the first people to scratch records in performance, treating the turntable as an instrument".

Do journalists think I spent years learning how to scratch records with my boobs?

Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards and Julianna Barwick built their songs from scratch, recording themselves live and looping and sampling the result.

Kid Koala is a turntablist who scratches records into percussion solos, making them chirp, bubble, ratchet and cackle.

He scratched records, and sometimes just the needle itself, to make chirrups, whistles, shivers, whooshes, scrapes and hard-rock chords.

After "Picture," the ballad he recorded with Sheryl Crow, he scratched records behind his back while downing a shot of Jim Beam, which is one of his sponsors.

I'd thought people who hosted stoop sales had too many clothes or were looking to cash in on some scratched records.