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Arizona DJ Ruthless Ramsey is featured in this YouTube video ‘scratching’ tapes on two commercial boomboxes hooked up via a DJ mixer. An aspiring DJ since his younger days, he wound up as a tape jockey when he was on welfare and couldn’t afford a pair of turntables.
It’s nice to see someone bring this level of innovation back to the field of DJing. After all, this is where hip-hop comes from—taking what you have and making it fresh. While the horde of hunched-over laptop DJs have reformatted the artform by clicking and dragging their way into the future, it’s nice to see someone rewind the game back to its essence.
More on tape scratching:
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