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The Origins of Record Scratching

It formed the basis of everything that came after it that had anything to do with electronic from like Pink Floyd. And then we took all electronic music to the residents, to Silver Apples, to all these people who craft work. Who created electronic music. It's all based on this. These two guys creating this in like 1948 or something like that. That's crazy. Did you see the part of the video where they took the tape by hand and were dragging it through? Yeah. That ended up sounding like, and I think was sort of the origins of record scratching. Of course, it was produced back in the day so they didn't say it was before record scratching. This is

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