DJ culture
Spinning and mixing
DJ culture encompasses the practices, aesthetics, and communities surrounding disc jockeys—people who select and play recorded music for audiences.
It includes the techniques of mixing, scratching, and beatmatching, the crate-digging tradition of hunting for rare records, and the social scenes built around clubs, raves, and radio.
She came up through Brooklyn's DJ culture in the nineties.
- technoElectronic dance genre
- beatmatchingAligning tracks' tempos
- remixingAltering existing recordings
- discoSeventies dance music
- samplingExtracting subset for study
scratching · nightclubs · looping · crates · back to back · sound system · house · DIY ethos · dubstep · dance music · vinyl records · cueing · turntables · underground · hip-hop · headphones · mix tape · crossfading
- street culturehip hop, streetwear, street fashion, graffiti, tagging
- audiosound, headphones, audio track, volume control, sound recording
- Black MediaBET, Ebony, Essence, Black Twitter, Soul Train
- vinyl recordsvinyl, vinyl records, LP, record, album cover
- urban storytellinghip hop, rap, spoken word, slam poetry, graffiti
DJ cultureacoustic music
Sound without amplification
orchestra · orchestral performance · chamber music · jazz improvisation · busking