Scratching in non-hip hop genres?

[de4thbyc4ke]

Does it work or does it backfire? How/Can it be tastefully done?

[manchild]

I cut up or scratch or both, the kicks or snares when dropping a song into a mix normally, but when I get into house (don't play dubstep or trapstep or any other genre off the beaten path) I generally just blend or drop in songs, but I do sometimes scratch in a kick and I aslo will echo scratch out a vocal or prominent instrumental of a house song from time to time. I don't do an all out scratch solo in a middle of a house song, and very very rarely do that with any genre really

[031999]

It can be done in house music, no cutting just scratching, but you gotta be really fast.

[djdust1724]

check out DJ Ricky Jay ( djrickyjay.com ) or droppingneedles.com , ricky jay does lots of scratching with dance songs ( top 40, electronic, etc. ) for the droping needles website , skip to ricky's set within the podcasts, if you go with his website the canada tour mix has some tight clean scratching.

[shr3dder]

James Zabiela used to be great at it.. He plays techno/house/breaks...

[guiltyblade]

bad boy bill

[botstein]

I like scratching outside of hip hop just fine.

You could tease the track coming in - I like to fade in while scratching the first beat and drop it in time with the track that's already playing.

[dripstep]

I quite enjoy scratching to some neurofunk

[HighTopFade]

If you got the skills to make it sound good, do it.

[MyUsername]

I quite enjoy scratching to some neurofunk

Sick! You have a recording or video of that ?


And these guys do it quite all right with dubstep: