The art of playing the turntable as a musical instrument. Not to be confused with DJing, which is more about providing dance music and/or mixing beats. Turntablism is more about manipulating sounds and creating rhythms or even melodies by scratching and techniques using a mixer.
by turtle-bird love slave June 22, 2004
Machine with a rotating center used by DJ's to play, scratch, and mix music. There are now CD turntables, so Vinyl is not the only one.
by Bobby De Niro November 3, 2004
a form of music, which uses turntables to manipulate the sounds of a record in a rhythmic manner to create a new musical composition.
Skratching and beatjuggling are 2 techniques used in turntablism.
by TrAnSpArEnT iTcH ZuCcHiNi November 20, 2002
by JesseBW August 30, 2003
by Mellynelly October 26, 2009
When a girl sits between two guys and rubs their penis' outside their pants as if she were a DJ at the turntable. This usually leads to ski-poles.
by DJ Urb November 3, 2009
I instrument used around the world to make various of beatz for music....
Some scratch djs begin to publicly experiment with, and develop their own methods of scratch notation. Most notable of the group, John Carluccio, director and creator of "Battle Sounds", shares his system of scratch notation with other DJs around the world
Some scratch djs begin to publicly experiment with, and develop their own methods of scratch notation. Most notable of the group, John Carluccio, director and creator of "Battle Sounds", shares his system of scratch notation with other DJs around the world
by azure November 29, 2003