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Nihil Young

Musical artist

Sep 22, 2026

3:21
What was the first step as a professional or non-professional, as a hobbyist maybe in the back in the days into making music or DJing? What came first?
3:30
I'm pretty sure that the first thing that I ever did was trying to replicate the scratch sounds because also growing up I was listening to old school hip hop a lot from the 80s.
3:41
I was obsessed with Run DMC and Jam Master Jay.
3:45
So this sound, even Rocket from, you know, was probably one of the earliest examples of scratch coming into our track.
3:55
Herbie Hancock, you know, this scratching sound that was like, yeah, I was like, what is this? I want to do it.
4:01
So in my mind as a child, I really wanted to do it.
4:04
And so I started saving money to get my first turntable and mixer.

5 MINS LATER

9:29
make stuff in the meantime that you thought, okay, this is very cool, but it's not going to be released?

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