Who would have thought that two turntables and a mixer could be use as a form instrument? ... Kool Herc adapted his style by chanting over the instrumental or percussion sections of the day's popular songs. ... His particular skill, later copied by many others, was to meld the percussion breaks from two identical records by playing the break over and over switching from one deck to the other. ... It was still in the early 70's when Grand Master Flash had first pioneered the concept of "rubbing" a record to enhance a DJ's segue into a new track (mixing), but Theodore gave the ba...

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