Question: isn't "scratching" destructive to potentially out-of-print or valuable LPs? If "scratching" is this "ricki-ricki-ricki" sound that one hears on, for instance, Run-DMC records, then why does a "DJ" need to use a vintage disk to get this sound? Won't a cutout bin 10,000 Strings record do just fine?
What's next -- "stretching" (whereby one takes an old master tape and mangles it so that it bounces and weaves over the playback heads in a "rhythmic" fashion)? Or perhaps "grinding" (whereby one throws old 78RPM records into a blender and uses the powder as part of their pyrotechnics display for their DJ show since it's very clear that real music is not the point of these spectacles)?
-- Tom Fine Interested in preserving out-of-print music whenver possible
PS-- Showing the on-going bizarre nature of modern "music," Blue Note put out a record where two German "DJ's" play cuts from out-of-print Blue Note LPs (many of which should STAY out of print because they're early 70's "smooth" jazz junk), processed to death through compressors and bass-heavy equalization, into a digital chain to produce a two-CD set. I won't even ask why not just make a good-quality remaster job from the master tapes, perhaps that's too simple and direct (and perhaps this music only appeals to people who want to hear it processed to death).