An attempt at sleep

Now I lay me down to sleep, I wish some people weren’t crazy fucking assholes. Despite having a great day, someone always has to fuck with you to get you out of your comfort zone. Some people are just addicted to chaos. I have to work at 6 a.m. so I am going to attempt to sleep.

But then,

I started thinking what would the world be like without Hip-Hop? What if Grand Master Flash and his “band” The Furious Five never got together in the midst of mid-1970’s? To most Grand Master Flash or Flash to most of his friends was an innovator of his time, an inventor of the art for what we now call the DJ. This form of altering music was experimental in those days. He learned a lot from the great Kool Herc and also his father. His method was different though. He would take duplicate copies of vinyl records and manipulate them with his wrist and elbow to move them back and forth. Since 1971 he has been demonstrating and making new forms. “The Quick Mix Theory”, which came from “Cutting” which later became known as “Scratching” were all forms that he along with other “greats” came up with. “Doubleback/Back Door”, “Phasing”, and “Backspinning” were also well known in the DJ scene then and now. He was a great DJ before his time. His often elementary ways of marking breaks in records were often done with Crayon. This was dubbed by him as the “Clock Theory”. This often live manipulating and rearranging of records has easily led the way of the DJ as a remixer, editor, and producer. PEACE