Scratch Cafe: Talking Turntablism
Oct 21, 2026 · 2 hr 1 min · 16 segments
Scratch Cafe: Talking Turntablism is a monthly podcast focused on the art of Turntablism. Scratching, Beat Juggling, DJ battles. We talk about everything DJ related but through the eyes of the…
And I was ac- I was talking to JFB about this, um, Jean-Marc the other day, just like, you know, like if you think about like C-- He mentioned C2C, for example, right? That whole thing of like them being a band.
It's funny that you did because, um, when we spoke to, when we did the Jon First, um, podcast, he said all the same influences.
I mean, we're-
Mm
... kind of the same, same sort of age and probably from around the same area, right? But like, but I, I, I that thing of like connecting it to the, to the band, having the DJ as part of the band, and I was, I was talking to, um, one of the guys from DMC, and he was saying like in France, for example, they still have like turntablists on, on like TV.
[laughs]
Yeah.
But it is normally connected to some sort of a band.
Um, and so I do, I do wonder whether like that's a kind of, just a like an untapped part of, um... 'Cause there, there aren't many doing it.
No.
Like there really aren't.
Like it's, you know, it's yourself.
There's obviously then the connection of like Grooverider and that kind of thing, but they're not really doing turntablism.
There's not really-
Mm
... like any turntablist in bands.
I, I can't think of any, like off the top of my head.
You know what? I was thinking, I'm, I'm glad you said that, 'cause one person I do wanna shout out is, um, FC, FC UKers.
Right.
Um, because they've got Dwells from the US.
Right, okay.
And I heard one of their tunes and I heard some cuts.
I was like, "Ooh."
Oh, nice.
And I was ac- I was talking to JFB about this, um, Jean-Marc the other day, just like, you know, like if you think about like C-- He mentioned C2C, for example, right? That whole thing of like them being a band.
It's funny that you did because, um, when we spoke to, when we did the Jon First, um, podcast, he said all the same influences.
I mean, we're-
Mm
... kind of the same, same sort of age and probably from around the same area, right? But like, but I, I, I that thing of like connecting it to the, to the band, having the DJ as part of the band, and I was, I was talking to, um, one of the guys from DMC, and he was saying like in France, for example, they still have like turntablists on, on like TV.
[laughs]
Yeah.
But it is normally connected to some sort of a band.
Um, and so I do, I do wonder whether like that's a kind of, just a like an untapped part of, um... 'Cause there, there aren't many doing it.
No.
Like there really aren't.
Like it's, you know, it's yourself.
There's obviously then the connection of like Grooverider and that kind of thing, but they're not really doing turntablism.
There's not really-
Mm
... like any turntablist in bands.
I, I can't think of any, like off the top of my head.
You know what? I was thinking, I'm, I'm glad you said that, 'cause one person I do wanna shout out is, um, FC, FC UKers.
Right.
Um, because they've got Dwells from the US.
Right, okay.
And I heard one of their tunes and I heard some cuts.
I was like, "Ooh."
Oh, nice.
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