Everyone’s a pioneer in their own way. This is from a quote i picked up in this month’s Wired Magazine. In 1973 Grandmaster Flash invented Turntablism:
The DJ’s at the time were picking up the arm and dropping it down exactly on the break of the song. But i was dancing, and i noticed everybody’s head was bobbing at the same time, and then suddenly everyone’s head would go in disarray, and then come back together again. I found this to be very strange. From that moment, i decided to come up with a science that would allow me to have full control to manually edit the beat. I came up with the science called Quick Mix theory. It consisted of me having to do something that DJ’s at the time never did: placing my finger on the vinyl. I was ridiculed for a long time. I was told that i ruined needles, ruined styluses, ruined records, and also that placing my fingers on the vinyl was something DJ’s never did because I’d make the record filthy. But i knew that i had to do it to have full control over the vinyl
