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     The Records That Made Me Want to Be a DJ/Producer
There were a few in the early ’80s that stand out. "Planet Rock" by Soul Sonic Force (and the whole electro/space jam movement that followed that song) got me excited about the thought of DJing. At that point, nobody I knew had a DJ mixer or two turntables, but we all had at least one turntable and a tape deck, so we did the "pause mix/edit" thing. And my friend Steve and his sister Cindy each had a stereo set with a turntable and speakers so we'd get a boombox and put it in the hallway in between the two bedrooms and carry a speaker from each room to the hallway and record that way so when a song from Steve's room would end, we'd start a song from Cindy's room. We thought we were slick having a "continuous mix" with no space in between, even though it wasn't an actual "on beat" mix.
Other songs that made me wanna DJ were Malcolm McLaren's "Buffalo Gals", which was the first song I remember hearing with scratching, and then "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock. Ironically, it took people from the "punk scene" (Malcolm) and the "jazz scene" (Herbie) to release a song with scratching incorporated and not anyone in the "hip-hop scene". Oh yeah, and "Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel". That was the first mega-mix on record I ever heard.
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