Scratch (2001)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Jan 19, 2001

Running Time: 87 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: DJ Q-Bert, Invisbl Skratch Piklz, Rob Swift and the X-ecutioners, DJ Shadow, Steve Dee, Cut Chemist, DJ Nu-Mark, DJ Craze and the Allies, The Bullet Proof Scratch Hamsters, DJ Babu and The Beat Junkies

director: Doug Pray

Explores the world of the hip-hop DJ from the birth of hip-hop, when pioneering DJs began extending breaks on their party records (which helped inspire break dancing and rap), to the development of scratching and beat-jungling vinyl, to the recent explosion of a genuine musical movement called "turntableism."

September 30, 2002

Doug Pray's first-rate documentary chronicles the evolution of turntablism, starting off in New York with Jazzy Jay and Afrika Bambaataa and moving on to the West Coast, where a pack of wunderkinder led by DJ QBert helped turn scratching into a twenty-first-century version of pyrotechnic guitar jams.

CHRISTIAN HOARD
(October 17, 2002)

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Doug Pray

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DJ Q-Bert

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Invisbl Skratch Piklz

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Rob Swift and the X-ecutioners

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DJ Shadow

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