What makes a DMC Routine so special

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What makes a DMC Routine so special

  1. I’m not using this for ideas or anything i’m just wondering…

So, i’ve been thinking of this for a while… A lot of these new cats entering the DMC don’t scratch a lot like the old routines i’ve been watching, but they beat juggle. Is that what impresses people in turntablesim now a days, if so, is that the main thing that people should want to hear ?
I love Q-bert When he did that one beat juggle like " Step if you want to be killed " - Juggled into → “If you step up you will be killed” That was sick, but now it just sounds like people just beatjuggle to mix the song…

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That wasnt Q-Bert, that was Jay Slim.

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and it wasnt “if you step youll get killed”

it was “step up if you wanna get hurt” juggled into “if you step up youll get hurt”

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YOU HAVE TO KNOW YOUR TUNES.
YOU HAVE TO KNOW EVERY SINGLE LYRIC OF EVERY SINGLE LINE IN THE TUNE.
YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHERE EACH WORD FALLS.

Of course, you can also get lucky - by just trying juggles with every record combination you have. This is time consuming.

It is much easier to just be born a genius, like Babu, or Q-Bert.

Keep a pad with you - you never know when a potential juggle is gonna pop into your head. If you don’t write it down, you won’t remember it.

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Might be good to add, know the overall rhythm, and changes of pace, of the record.

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I thin he’s more asking about why there seems to be more juggling vs scratching in current DMC routines. I don’t follow that scene at all though so I can’y really be of any help.

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the problem with todays DMC routines is the robotic scratches.. there no personality cos theyve all learned from youtube or whatever have they know fader record push pull fader 2 click etc. and they end up soundin the same theres no personality bring back swamp or snake eyes or anyone with some flair gimme C2C in the team battles i love turntablism and the battle but the guys comin up these days are easliy forgetable cos they got no soul besides Vajara hes sick pimp

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Which explains why I just can’t get into watching it. I can watch Qbert, Atrak, Craze and some old DMC routines, but the new stuff now is really just not entertaining for the most part. One of my favorites is that imperial march juggle I don’t know who did it or anything, but it was pretty cool.

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that was scratch bastid from canada you need to watch his justin timberlake juggle heres a vid…

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What are the actual rules - I thought they had to spin on vinyl - as in real records, not DVS or controllers.

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DVS in DMC? thats whack!

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Ahaha, that was dope!

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lol, I actually have a scratch bastid CD.

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lol yeah I agree but I have seen vid’s on utube of controllers and dvs entries and stuff, just wondered what the actual rules were..

That is so awesome…

(His hair I mean)

And the performance was pretty awesome too..

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unless changed for this year. The rule recently was for the online competition you could use DVS and controller.

For live competition it had to be vinyl.

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Thats right, it was the same last year as well, you were allowed a DVS and a controller, i didnt watch very much of the DMC this year but in the red bull thr33style you were given a rane 62 for serato users and a pioneer T1 for traktor users, no controllers were allowed afaik,

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On topic, turntablism is a LOT harder than scratching, theres more creativeness in it as well, and you can incorporate scratching into turntablism routines.

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Thanks for all the responses and sorry on that mess up i watched the video like two months ago. I also wonder why people where using DVS, but now i understand.

Yeah i understand beat juggle is important, but it seems thats all people do with vinyl, with a few scratches.