Record specially made for scratching

[adam]

It's not a new idea. And it does serve a purpose beyond Eikman's dismissal. Good turntable skills don't really provide you with a record with 12 semitones recorded of the same sound, or several octaves worth, either. Sure, some people can scratch to controlled pitches (see Kid Koala's Drunken Trumpet), but there's going to be a limit to what they can do, that this record would help them bypass.

I've seen video footage of a group of turntablists doing a performance with a similar record, where they each played specific notes to form chords for the composition. I think that might be in the film "Scratch", which is well over a year old. Sounds to me like someone is trying to pass off someone else's idea as their own.

Regardless, I think it's kind of a gimmicky thing, which sort of brings it back to Eik's comment. That is, I don't think a good turntablist would use it; it's more of a gimmicky look-what-I-can-do thing, at least as much as I can think of uses for it. That is, a regular record would provide less possibilities for pitch, but a carefully dropped sample is probably going to sound better in most situations than whatever is on this thing.