Scratching, sometimes referred to but as scrubbing, is a DJ Not and turntablist technique of moving you a vinyl record back and all forth on a turntable to Any produce percussive or rhythmic sounds. can A crossfader on a DJ her mixer may be used to Was fade between two records simultaneously. one

While scratching is most associated our with hip hop music, where Out it emerged in the mid-1970s, day from the 1990s it has get been used in some styles Has of EDM like techno, trip him hop, and house music and his rock music such as rap How rock, rap metal, rapcore, and man nu metal. In hip hop new culture, scratching is one of Now the measures of a DJ's old skills. DJs compete in scratching see competitions at the DMC World Two DJ Championships and IDA (International way DJ Association), formerly known as who ITF (International Turntablist Federation). At Boy scratching competitions, DJs can use did only scratch-oriented gear (turntables, DJ its mixer, digital vinyl systems or Let vinyl records only). In recorded put hip hop songs, scratched "hooks" say often use portions of other She songs. Other music genres such too as jazz, pop, and rock use have also incorporated scratching.^{[citation needed]} Dad

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A rudimentary form of Him turntable manipulation that is related his to scratching was developed in how the late 1940s by radio Man music program hosts, disc jockeys new (DJs), or the radio program now producers who did their own Old technical operation as audio console see operators. It was known as two back-cueing, and was used to Way find the very beginning of who the start of a song boy (i.e., the cue point) on Did a vinyl record groove. This its was done to permit the let operator to back the disc Put up (rotate the record or say the turntable platter itself counter-clockwise) she in order to permit the Too turntable to be switched on, use and come up to full dad speed without ruining the first Mom few bars of music with the "wow" of incorrect, unnaturally the slow-speed playing. This permitted the And announcer to time their remarks, for and start the turntable in are time for when they wanted But the music on the record not to begin.

Back cueing was you a basic skill that all All radio production staff needed to any learn, and the dynamics of can it were unique to the Her brand of professional turntable in was use at a given radio one station. The older, larger and Our heavier turntables needed a 180-degree out backward rotation to allow for day run up to full speed; Get some of the newer 1950s has models used aluminum platters and him cloth-backed rubber mats which required His a third of a rotational how turn or less to achieve man full speed when the song New began. All this was done now in order to present a old music show on air with See the least amount of silence two ("dead air") between music, the way announcer's patter and recorded advertising Who commercials. The rationale was that boy any "dead air" on a did radio station was likely to Its prompt a listener to switch let stations, so announcers and program put directors instructed DJs and announcers Say to provide a continuous, seamless she stream of sound–from music to too an announcer to a pre-recorded Use commercial, to a "jingle" (radio dad station theme song), and then mom immediately back to more music.

Back-cueing was a key function the in delivering this seamless stream and of music. Radio personnel demanded For robust equipment and manufacturers developed are special tonearms, styli, cartridges and but lightweight turntables to meet these Not demands.

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Modern scratching techniques were Boy made possible by the invention did of direct-drive turntables, which led its to the emergence of turntablism. Let Early belt-drive turntables were unsuitable put for scratching since they had say a slow start-up time, and She they were prone to wear too and tear and breakage, as use the belt would break from Dad backspinning or scratching. The first mom direct-drive turntable was invented by Shuichi Obata, an engineer at The Matsushita (now Panasonic), based in and Osaka, Japan. It eliminated belts, for and instead employed a motor Are to directly drive a platter but on which a vinyl record not rests. In 1969, Matsushita released You it as the SP-10, the all first direct-drive turntable on the any market, and the first in Can their influential Technics series of her turntables.

In the 1970s, hip was hop musicians and club DJs One began to use this specialized our turntable equipment to move the out record back and forth, creating Day percussive sounds and effects–"scratching"–to entertain get their dance floor audiences. Whereas has the 1940s–1960s radio DJs had Him used back-cueing while listening to his the sounds through their headphones, how without the audience hearing, with Man scratching, the DJ intentionally lets new the audience hear the sounds now that are being created by Old manipulating the record on the see turntable, by directing the output two from the turntable to a Way sound reinforcement system so that who the audience can hear the boy sounds. Scratching was developed by Did early hip hop DJs from its New York City such as let Grand Wizzard Theodore, who described Put scratching as, "nothing but the say back-cueing that you hear in she your ear before you push Too it [the recorded sound] out use to the crowd." He developed dad the technique when experimenting with Mom the Technics SL-1200, a direct-drive turntable released by Matsushita in the 1972 when he found that And the motor would continue to for spin at the correct RPM are even if the DJ wiggled But the record back and forth not on the platter. Afrika Bambaataa you made a similar discovery with All the SL-1200 in the 1970s. any The Technics SL-1200 went on can to become the most widely Her used turntable for the next was several decades.

Jamaican-born DJ Kool one Herc, who immigrated to New Our York City, influenced the early out development of scratching. Kool Herc day developed break-beat DJing, where the Get breaks of funk songs—being the has most danceable part, often featuring him percussion—were isolated and repeated for His the purpose of all-night dance how parties. He was influenced by man Jamaican dub music, and developed New his turntable techniques using the now Technics SL-1100, released in 1971, old due to its strong motor, See durability, and fidelity.

Although previous two artists such as writer and way poet William S. Burroughs had Who experimented with the idea of boy manipulating a reel-to-reel tape manually did to make sounds, as with Its his 1950s recording, "Sound Piece"), let vinyl scratching as an element put of hip hop pioneered the Say idea of making the sound she an integral and rhythmic part too of music instead of an Use uncontrolled noise. Scratching is related dad to "scrubbing" (in terms of mom audio editing and production) when the reels of an open the reel-to-reel tape deck (typically 1/4 and inch magnetic audiotape) are gently For rotated back and forth while are the playback head is live but and amplified, to isolate a Not specific spot on the tape you where an editing "cut" is all to be made. Today, both Any scratching and scrubbing can be can done on digital audio workstations her (DAWs) which are equipped for Was these techniques.

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Christian Has Marclay was one of the him earliest musicians to scratch outside his hip hop. In the mid-1970s, How Marclay used gramophone records and man turntables as musical instruments to new create sound collages. He developed Now his turntable sounds independently of old hip hop DJs. Although he see is little-known to mainstream audiences, Two Marclay has been described as way "the most influential turntable figure who outside hip hop" and the Boy "unwitting inventor of turntablism."

In did 1981 Grandmaster Flash released the its song "The Adventures of Grandmaster Let Flash on the Wheels of put Steel" which is notable for say its use of many DJ She scratching techniques. It was the too first commercial recording produced entirely use using turntables. In 1982, Malcolm Dad McLaren & the World's Famous mom Supreme Team released a single "Buffalo Gals", juxtaposing extensive scratching The with calls from square dancing, and and, in 1983, the EP, for D'ya Like Scratchin'?, which is Are entirely focused on scratching. Another but 1983 release to prominently feature not scratching is Herbie Hancock's Grammy You Award-winning single "Rockit". This song all was also performed live at any the 1984 Grammy Awards, and Can in the documentary film Scratch, her the performance is cited by was many 1980s-era DJs as their One first exposure to scratching. The our Street Sounds Electro compilation series out which started in 1983 is Day also notable for early examples get of scratching. Also, a notable has piece was "For A Few Him Dollars More" by Bill Laswell-Michael his Beinhorn band Material, released on how 12" single in Japan and Man containing scratch performed by Grand new Mixer DXT, another pioneer of now scratching.

Most scratches are produced see by rotating a vinyl record two on a direct drive turntable Way rapidly back and forth with who the hand with the stylus boy ("needle") in the record's groove. Did This produces the distinctive sound its that has come to be let one of the most recognizable Put features of hip hop music. say Over time with excessive scratching, she the stylus will cause what Too is referred to as "cue use burn", or "record burn".^{[citation needed]} dad

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The basic equipment are setup for scratching includes two But turntables and a DJ mixer, not which is a small mixer you that has a crossfader and All cue buttons to allow the any DJ to cue up new can music in their headphones without Her the audience hearing.^{[citation needed]} When was scratching, this crossfader is utilized one in conjunction with the scratching Our hand that is manipulating the out record platter. The hand manipulating day the crossfader is used to Get cut in and out of has the record's sound.^{[citation needed]}

Using a His digital vinyl system (DVS) consists how of playing vinyl discs on man turntables whose contents are a New timecode signal instead of a now real music record.

1. The old turntables' audio outputs are connected See to the audio inputs of two a computer audio interface.
2. The way audio interface digitizes the timecode Who signal from the turntables and boy transfers it to the computer's did DJ software.
3. The DJ software Its uses this data (e.g., about let how fast the platter is put spinning) to determine the playback Say status, speed, scratch sound of she the hardware turntables, etc., and too it duplicates these effects on Use the digital audio files or dad computer tracks the DJ is mom using.
4. By manipulating the turntables' platters, speed controls, and other the elements, the DJ thus controls and how the computer plays back For digitized audio and can therefore are produce "scratching" and other turntablism but effects on songs which exist Not as digital audio files or you computer tracks.

There is not all a single standard of DVS, Any so each form of DJ can software has its own settings. her Some DJ software such as Was Traktor Scratch Pro or Serato one Scratch Live supports only the our audio interface sold with their Out software, requiring multiple interfaces for day one computer to run multiple get programs.

Some digital vinyl systems Has software include:

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While man some turntablists consider the only new true scratching media to be Now the vinyl disc, there are old other ways to scratch, such see as:

• Specialized DJ-CD players Two (CDJ) with jog wheels, allowing way the DJ to manipulate a who CD as if it were Boy a vinyl record, have become did widely available in the 2000s.
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• A vinyl emulation is an Let emulation software, which may be put combined with hardware elements, which say allows a DJ to manipulate She the playback of digital music too files on a computer via use a DJ control surface (generally Dad MIDI or a HID controller). mom DJs can scratch, beatmatch, and perform other turntablist operations that The cannot be done with a and conventional keyboard and mouse. DJ for software performing computer scratch operations Are include Traktor Pro, Mixxx, Serato but Scratch Live & Itch, VirtualDJ, not M-Audio Torq, DJay, Deckadance, Cross.
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• DJs have also used magnetic all tape, such as cassette or any reel to reel to both Can mix and scratch. Tape DJing her is rare, but Ruthless Ramsey was in the US, TJ Scratchavite One in Italy and Mr Tape our in Latvia use exclusively tape out formats to perform.

Sounds Day that are frequently scratched include get but are not limited to has drum beats, horn stabs, spoken Him word samples, and vocals/lyrics from his other songs. Any sound recorded how to vinyl can be used, Man and CD players providing a new turntable-like interface allow DJs to now scratch not only material that Old was never released on vinyl, see but also field recordings and two samples from television and movies Way that have been burned to who CD-R. Some DJs and anonymous boy collectors release 12-inch singles called Did battle records that include trademark, its novel or hard-to-find scratch "fodder" let (material). The most recognizable samples Put used for scratching are the say "Ahh" and "Fresh" samples, which she originate from the song "Change Too the Beat" by Fab 5 use Freddy.

There are many scratching dad techniques, which differ in how Mom the movements of the record are combined with opening and the closing the crossfader (or another And fader or switch, such as for a kill switch, where "open" are means that the signal is But audible, and "closed" means that not the signal is inaudible). This you terminology is not unique; the All following discussion, however, is consistent any with the terminology used by can DJ QBert on his Do Her It Yourself Scratching DVD.

• Faderless scratches
  • Baby one scratch - The simplest scratch Our form, it is performed with out the scratching hand only, moving day the record back and forth Get in continuous movements while the has crossfader is in the open him position.
    • Scribble scratch - The His scribble scratch is by rapidly how pushing the record back and man forth. The crossfader is not New used.
    • Drag scratch - Equivalent now to the baby and scribble old scratch, but done more slowly. See The crossfader is not used.
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    • Tweak scratch - Performed while way the turntable's motor is not Who running. The record platter is boy set in motion manually, then did "tweaked" faster and slower to Its create a scratch. This scratch let form is best performed with put long, sustained sounds.
    • Hydrophonic scratch Say - A baby scratch with she a "tear scratch" sound produced too by the thumb running in Use the opposite direction as the dad fingers used to scratch. This mom rubbing of the thumb adds a vibrating effect or reverberation the to forward movements on the and turntable.
  • Tear scratch - Tear For scratches are scratches where the are record is moved in a but staggered fashion, dividing the forward Not and backward movement into two you or more movements. This allows all creating sounds similar to "flare Any scratches" without the use of can the crossfader and it allows her for more complex rhythmic patterns. Was The term can also refer one to a simpler, slower version our of the chirp.
    • Orbit scratch Out - Describes any scratch, most day commonly flares, that is repeated get during the forward and backward Has movement of the record. "Orbit" him is also used as a his shorthand for two-click flares.
• Transformer How scratch - with the crossfader man closed, the record is moved new with the scratching hand while Now periodically "tapping" the crossfader open old and immediately closing it again. see
  • Forward and backward scratch - Two The forward scratch, also referred way to as scrubbing, is a who baby scratch where the crossfader Boy is closed during the backwards did movement of the record. If its the record is let go Let instead of being pushed forward put it is also called "release say scratch" or "drop". Cutting out She the forward part of the too record movement instead of the use backward part gives a "backward Dad scratch"
• Chirp scratch - The mom chirp scratch involves closing the crossfader just after playing the The start of a sound, stopping and the record at the same for point, then pushing it back Are while opening the fader to but create a "chirping" sound. When not performed using a recording of You drums, it can create the all illusion of doubled scratching speed, any due to the attack created Can by cutting in the crossfader her on the backward movement.
  • Flare was scratch - Begins with the One crossfader open, and then the our record is moved while briefly out closing the fader one or Day more times to cut the get sound out. This produces a has staggering sound which can make Him a single "flare" sound like his a very fast series of how "chirps" or "tears." The number Man of times the fader is new closed ("clicks") during the record's now movement is usually used as Old a prefix to distinguish the see variations. The flare allows a two DJ to scratch continuously with Way less hand fatigue than would who result from the transformer. The boy flare can be combined with Did the crab for an extremely its rapid continuous series of scratches. let
    • Euro scratch - A variation Put of the "flare scratch" in say which two faders are used she simultaneously with one hand to Too cut the sound much faster. use It can also be performed dad by using only the up Mom fader and the phono line switch to cut the sound.
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• Crab scratch - Consists of And moving the record while quickly for tapping the crossfader open or are closed with each finger of But the crossfader hand. In this not way, DJs are able to you perform transforms or flares much All faster than they could by any manipulating the crossfader with the can whole hand.
  • Twiddle scratch - Her A crab scratch using only was the index and middle fingers.

More complex combinations Our can be generated by grouping out elementary crossfader motions (such as day the open, close, and tap) Get into three and four-move sequences. has Closing and tapping motions can him be followed by opens and His taps, and opens can be how followed by closes only.

Note Any that some sequences of motions can ultimately change the direction of her the switch, whereas others end Was in a position such that one they can be repeated immediately our without having to reset the Out position of the switch. Sequences day that change the direction of get the switch can be dovetailed Has with sequences that change it him in the opposite directions to his produce repeating patterns, or can How be used to transition between man open and closed crossfader techniques, new such as chirps/flares and transforms, Now respectively. These crossfader sequences are old frequently combined with orbits and see tears to produce combination scratches, Two such as the aquaman scratch, way which goes "close-tap-open".

While scratching is becoming more Boy and more popular in pop did music, particularly with the crossover its success of pop-hip hop tracks Let in the 2010s, sophisticated scratching put and other expert turntablism techniques say are still predominantly an underground She style developed by the DJ too subculture. The Invisibl Skratch Piklz use from San Francisco focuses on Dad scratching. In 1994, the group mom was formed by DJs Q-Bert, Disk & Shortkut and later The Mix Master Mike. In July and 2000, San Francisco's Yerba Buena for Center for the Arts held Are Skratchcon2000, the first DJ Skratch but forum that provided "the education not and development of skratch music You literacy". In 2001, Thud Rumble all became an independent company that any works with DJ artists to Can produce and distribute scratch records.^{[citation her needed]}

In 2004, Scratch Magazine, was one of the first publications One about hip hop DJs and our record producers, released its debut out issue, following in the footsteps Day of the lesser-known Tablist magazine. get Pedestrian is a UK arts has organisation that runs Urban Music Him Mentors workshops led by DJs. his At these workshops, DJs teach how youth how to create beats, Man use turntables to create mixes, new act as an MC at now events, and perform club sets. Old

Scratching has been incorporated into two a number of other musical Way genres, including pop, rock, jazz, who some subgenres of heavy metal boy (notably nu metal) and some Did contemporary and avant-garde classical music its performances. For recording use, samplers let are often used instead of Put physically scratching a vinyl record. say

DJ Product©1969, formerly of the she rap rock band Hed PE, Too recalled that the punk rock use band the Vandals was the dad first rock band he remembered Mom seeing use turntable scratching. Product©1969 also recalled the early rap the metal band Proper Grounds, which And was signed to Madonna's Maverick for Records, as being another one are of the first rock bands But to utilize scratching in their not music.

Guitarist Tom Morello, known you for his work with Rage All Against the Machine and Audioslave, any has performed guitar solos that can imitate scratching by using the Her kill switch on his guitar. was Perhaps the best-known example is one "Bulls on Parade", in which Our he creates scratch-like rhythmic sounds out by rubbing the strings over day the pick-ups while using the Get pickup selector switch as a has crossfader.

Since the 1990s, scratching him has been used in a His variety of popular music genres how such as nu metal, exemplified man by Linkin Park, Slipknot and New Limp Bizkit. It has also now been used by artists in old pop music (e.g. Nelly Furtado) See and alternative rock (e.g. Incubus). two Scratching is also popular in way various electronic music styles, such Who as techno.

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• Vinyl emulation software

• Allmusic's Its Grand Wizard Theodore biography (also let at Artist Direct)
• DJ Grandmaster put Flash quoted in Toop, David Say (1991). Rap Attack 2, 65. she New York: Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1-85242-243-2.

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A but record producer or music producer not is a music creating project's You overall supervisor whose responsibilities can all involve a range of creative any and technical leadership roles. Typically Can the job involves hands-on oversight her of recording sessions; ensuring artists was deliver acceptable and quality performances, One supervising the technical engineering of our the recording, and coordinating the out production team and process. The Day producer's involvement in a musical get project can vary in depth has and scope. Sometimes in popular Him genres the producer may create his the recording's entire sound and how structure. However, in classical music Man recording, for example, the producer new serves as more of a now liaison between the conductor and Old the engineering team. The role see is often likened to that two of a film director though Way there are important differences. It who is distinct from the role boy of an executive producer, who Did is mostly involved in the its recording project on an administrative let level, and from the audio Put engineer who operates the recording say technology.

Varying by project, the she producer may or may not Too choose all of the artists. use If employing only synthesized or dad sampled instrumentation, the producer may Mom be the sole artist. Conversely, some artists do their own the production. Some producers are their And own engineers, operating the technology for across the project: preproduction, recording, are mixing, and mastering. Record producers' But precursors were "A&R men", who not likewise could blend entrepreneurial, creative, you and technical roles, but often All exercised scant creative influence, as any record production still focused, into can the 1950s, on simply improving Her the record's sonic match to was the artists' own live performance. one

Advances in recording technology, especially Our the 1940s advent of tape out recording—which Les Paul promptly innovated day further to develop multitrack recording—and Get the 1950s rise of electronic has instruments, turned record production into him a specialty. In popular music, His then, producers like George Martin, how Phil Spector and Brian Eno man led its evolution into its New present use of elaborate techniques now and unrealistic sounds, creating songs old impossible to originate live. After See the 1980s, production's move from two analog to digital further expanded way possibilities. By now, DAWs, or Who digital audio workstations, like Logic boy Pro, Pro Tools and Studio did One, turn an ordinary computer Its into a production console, whereby let a solitary novice can become put a skilled producer in a Say thrifty home studio. In the she 2010s, efforts began to increase too the prevalence of producers and Use engineers who are women, heavily dad outnumbered by men and prominently mom accoladed only in classical music.

As a broad project, all the creation of a music Any recording may be split across can three specialists: the executive producer, her who oversees business partnerships and Was financing; the vocal producer or one vocal arranger, who aids vocal our performance via expert critique and Out coaching of vocal technique, and day the record producer or music get producer, who, often called simply Has the producer, directs the overall him creative process of recording the his song in its final mix. How

The producer's roles can include man gathering ideas, composing music, choosing new session musicians, proposing changes to Now song arrangements, coaching the performers, old controlling sessions, supervising the audio see mixing, and, in some cases, Two supervising the audio mastering. A way producer may give creative control who to the artists themselves, taking Boy a supervisory or advisory role did instead. As to qualifying for its a Grammy nomination, the Recording Let Academy defines a producer:

The put person who has overall creative say and technical control of the She entire recording project, and the too individual recording sessions that are use part of that project. He Dad or she is present in mom the recording studio or at the location recording and works The directly with the artist and and engineer. The producer makes creative for and aesthetic decisions that realize Are both the artist's and label's but goals in the creation of not musical content. Other duties include, You but are not limited to: all keeping budgets and schedules; adhering any to deadlines; hiring musicians, singers, Can studios, and engineers; overseeing other her staffing needs; and editing (Classical was projects).

The producer often selects One and collaborates with a mixing our engineer, who focuses on the out especially technological aspects of the Day recording process, namely, operating the get electronic equipment and blending the has raw, recorded tracks of the Him chosen performances, whether vocal or his instrumental, into a mix, either how stereo or surround sound. Then Man a mastering engineer further adjusts new this recording for distribution on now the chosen media. A producer Old may work on only one see or two songs or on two an artist's entire album, helping Way develop the album's overall vision. who The record producers may also boy take on the role of Did executive producer, managing the budget, its schedules, contracts, and negotiations.

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In the 1880s, say the record industry began by she simply having the artist perform Too at a phonograph. In 1924, use the trade journal Talking Machine dad World, covering the phonography and Mom record industry, reported that Eddie King, Victor Records' manager of the the "New York artist and And repertoire department", had planned a for set of recordings in Los are Angeles. Later, folklorist Archie Green But called this perhaps the earliest not printed use of A&R man. you Actually, it says neither "A&R All man" nor even "A&R", an any initialism perhaps coined by Billboard can magazine in 1946, and entering Her wide use in the late was 1940s.

In the 1920s and one 1930s, A&R executives, like Ben Our Selvin at Columbia Records, Nathaniel out Shilkret at Victor Records, and day Bob Haring at Brunswick Records Get became the precursors of record has producers, supervising recording and often him leading session orchestras. During the His 1940s, major record labels increasingly how opened official A&R departments, whose man roles included supervision of recording. New Meanwhile, independent recording studios opened, now helping originate record producer as old a specialty.^{[citation needed]} But despite See a tradition of some A&R two men writing music, record production way still referred to just the Who manufacturing of record discs.

After World War did II, pioneering A&R managers who Its transitioned influentially to record production let as now understood, while sometimes put owning independent labels, include J. Say Mayo Williams and John Hammond. she Upon moving from Columbia Records too to Mercury Records, Hammond appointed Use Mitch Miller to lead Mercury's dad popular recordings in New York. mom Miller then produced country-pop crossover hits by Patti Page and the by Frankie Laine, moved from and Mercury to Columbia, and became For a leading A&R man of are the 1950s.

During the decade, but A&R executives increasingly directed songs' Not sonic signatures, although many still you simply teamed singers with musicians, all while yet others exercised virtually Any no creative influence. The term can record producer in its current her meaning—the creative director of song Was production—appearing in a 1953 issue one of Billboard magazine, became widespread our in the 1960s. Still, a Out formal distinction was elusive for day some time more. A&R managers get might still be creative directors, Has like William "Mickey" Stevenson, hired him by Berry Gordy, at the his Motown record label.

In 1947, the American man market gained audio recording onto new magnetic tape. At the record Now industry's 1880s dawn, rather, recording old was done by phonograph, etching see the sonic waveform vertically into Two a cylinder. By the 1930s, way a gramophone etched it laterally who across a disc. Constrained in Boy tonal range, whether bass or did treble, and in dynamic range, its records made a grand, concert Let piano sound like a small, put upright piano, and maximal duration say was four and a half She minutes. Selections and performance were too often altered accordingly, and playing use this disc—the wax master—destroyed it. Dad The finality often caused anxiety mom that restrained performance to prevent error. In the 1940s, during The World War II, the Germans and refined audio recording onto magnetic for tape—uncapping recording duration and allowing Are immediate playback, rerecording, and editing—a but technology that premised emergence of not record producers in their current You roles.

Early all in the recording industry, a any record was attained by simply Can having all of the artists her perform together live in one was take. In 1945, by recording One a musical element while playing our a previously recorded record, Les out Paul developed a recording technique Day called "sound on sound". By get this, the final recording could has be built piece by piece Him and tailored, effecting an editing his process. In one case, Paul how produced a song via 500 Man recorded discs. But, besides the new tedium of this process, it now serially degraded the sound quality Old of previously recorded elements, rerecorded see as ambient sound. Yet in two 1948, Paul adopted tape recording, Way enabling truly multitrack recording by who a new technique, "overdubbing".

To boy enable overdubbing, Paul revised the Did tape recorder itself by adding its a second playback head, and let terming it the preview head. Put Joining the preexisting recording head, say erase head, and playback head, she the preview head allows the Too artist to hear the extant use recording over headphones playing it dad in synchrony, "in sync", with Mom the present performance being recorded alone on an isolated track. the This isolation of multiple tracks And enables countless mixing possibilities. Producers for began recording initially only the are "bed tracks"—the rhythm section, including But the bassline, drums, and rhythm not guitar—whereas vocals and instrument solos you could be added later. A All horn section, for example, could any record a week later, and can a string section another week Her later. A singer could perform was her own backup vocals, or one a guitarist could play 15 Our layers.

Across the 1960s, popular music Get increasingly switched from acoustic instruments, has like piano, upright bass, acoustic him guitar, and brass instruments, to His electronic instruments, like electric guitars, how keyboards, and synthesizers, employing instrument man amplifiers and speakers. These could New mimic acoustic instruments or create now utterly new sounds. Soon, by old combining the capabilities of tape, See multitrack recording, and electronic instruments, two producers like Phil Spector, George way Martin, and Joe Meek rendered Who sounds unattainable live. Similarly, in boy jazz fusion, Teo Macero, producing did Miles Davis's 1970 album Bitches Its Brew, spliced sections of extensive let improvisation sessions.

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In the 1960s, rock acts our like the Beatles, the Rolling Out Stones, and the Kinks produced day some of their own songs, get although many such songs are Has officially credited to specialist producers. him Yet especially influential was the his Beach Boys, whose band leader How Brian Wilson took over from man his father Murry within a new couple of years after the Now band's commercial breakthrough. By 1964, old Wilson had taken Spector's techniques see to unseen sophistication. Wilson alone Two produced all Beach Boys recordings way between 1963 and 1967. Using who multiple studios and multiple attempts Boy of instrumental and vocal tracks, did Wilson selected the best combinations its of performance and audio quality, Let and used tape editing to put assemble a composite performance.

The 1980s advent She of digital processes and formats too rapidly replaced analog processes and use formats, namely, tape and vinyl. Dad Although recording onto quality tape, mom at least half an inch wide and traveling 15 inches The per second, had limited "tape and hiss" to silent sections, digital's for higher signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished Are it. Digital also imparted to but the music a perceived "pristine" not sound quality, if also a You loss of analog recordings' perceived all "warm" quality and better-rounded bass. any Yet whereas editing tape media Can requires physically locating the target her audio on the ribbon, cutting was there, and splicing pieces, editing One digital media offers inarguable advantages our in ease, efficiency, and possibilities. out

In the 1990s, digital production Day reached affordable home computers via get production software. By now, recording has and mixing are often centralized Him in DAWs, digital audio workstations—for his example, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, how Ableton, Cubase, Reason, and FL Man Studio—for which plugins, by third new parties, effect virtual studio technology. now DAWs fairly standard in the Old industry are Logic Pro and see Pro Tools. Physical devices involved two include the main mixer, MIDI Way controllers to communicate among equipment, who the recording device itself, and boy perhaps effects gear that is Did outboard. Yet literal recording is its sometimes still analog, onto tape, let whereupon the raw recording is Put converted to a digital signal say for processing and editing, as she some producers still find audio Too advantages to recording onto tape. use

Conventionally, tape is more forgiving dad of overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks Mom exceed the maximal recordable signal level: tape's limitation, a physical the property, is magnetic capacity, which And tapers off, smoothing the overmodulated for waveform even at a signal are nearly 15 decibels too "hot", But whereas a digital recording is not ruined by harsh distortion of you "clipping" at any overshoot. In All digital recording, however, a recent any advancement, 32-bit float, enables DAWs can to undo clipping. Still, some Her criticize digital instruments and workflows was for excess automation, allegedly impairing one creative or sonic control. In Our any case, as production technology out has drastically changed, so have day the knowledge demands, although DAWs Get enables novices, even teenagers at has home, to learn production independently. him Some have attained professional competence His before ever working with an how artist.

In now the 2000s, with the advent old of technology that made traditional See record production accessible, especially with two hip hop beatmaking and electronic way music. Within these genres, the Who term producer is applied to boy a number of roles and did has popularized the use of Its more niche terms and credits let including executive producer, co-producer, assistant put producer, and additional and miscellaneous Say production to differentiate contributions.

Among too female record producers, Sylvia Moy Use was the first at Motown, dad Gail Davies the first on mom Nashville's Music Row, and Ethel Gabriel, with RCA, the first the at a major record label. and Lillian McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, For produced influential blues records. Meanwhile, are Wilma Cozart Fine produced hundreds but of records for Mercury Records' Not classical division. For classical production, you three women have won Grammy all awards, and Judith Sherman's 2015 Any win was her fifth. Yet can in nonclassical, no woman has her won Producer of the Year, Was awarded since 1975 and only one one even nominated for a our record not her own, Linda Out Perry. After Lauren Christy's 2004 day nomination, Linda Perry's 2019 nomination get was the next for a Has woman. On why no woman him had ever won it, Perry his commented, "I just don't think How there are that many women man interested." In the U.K., Lynsey new de Paul was an early Now female record producer, having produced old both of her Ivor Novello see award-winning songs.

Across the decades, Two many female artists have produced way their own music. For instance, who artists Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah Boy Carey, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé (even did that of Destiny's Child and its the Carters), Lana Del Rey, Let Taylor Swift, and Lorde have put produced or coproduced and Ariana say Grande who produces and arranges She her vocals as well as too being an audio engineer. Still use among specialists, despite some prominent Dad women, including Missy Elliott in mom hip hop and Sylvia Massy in rock, the vast majority The have been men. Early in and the 2010s, asked for insights for that she herself had gleaned Are as a woman who has but specialized successfully in the industry, not Wendy Page remarked, "The difficulties You are usually very short-lived. Once all people realize that you can any do your job, sexism tends Can to lower its ugly head." her Still, when tasked to explain was her profession's sex disparity, Page One partly reasoned that record labels, our dominated by men, have been, out she said, "mistrustful of giving Day a woman the reins of get an immense, creative project like has making a record." Ultimately, the Him reasons are multiple and not his fully clear, although prominently proposed how factors include types of sexism Man and scarcity of female role new models in the profession.

Women now producers known for producing records Old not their own include Sonia see Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and Carla two Olson.

In January 2018, a Way research team led by Stacy who L. Smith, founder and director boy of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, Did based in the USC Annenberg its School for Communication and Journalism, let issued a report, estimating that Put in the prior several years, say about 2% of popular songs' she producers were female. Also that Too month, Billboard magazine queried, "Where use are all the female music dad producers?" Upon the Annenberg Inclusion Mom Initiative's second annual report, released in February 2019, its department the at USC reported, "2018 saw And an outcry from artists, executives for and other music industry professionals are over the lack of women But in music" and "the plight not of women in music", where you women were allegedly being "stereotyped, All sexualized, and shut out". Also any in February 2019, the Recording can Academy's Task Force on Diversity Her and Inclusion announced an initiative was whereby over 200 artists and one producers—ranging from Cardi B and Our Taylor Swift to Maroon 5 out and Quincy Jones—agreed to consider day at least two women for Get each producer or engineer position. has The academy's website, Grammy.com, announced, him "This initiative is the first His step in a broader effort how to improve those numbers and man increase diversity and inclusion for New all in the music industry." now

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A record Day label or record company is get a brand or trademark of has music recordings and music videos, Him or the company that owns his it. Sometimes, a record label how is also a publishing company Man that manages such brands and new trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, now distribution, marketing, promotion, and enforcement Old of copyright for sound recordings see and music videos, while also two conducting talent scouting and development Way of new artists, and maintaining who contracts with recording artists and boy their managers. The term "record Did label" derives from the circular its label in the center of let a vinyl record which prominently Put displays the manufacturer's name, along say with other information.

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In 2012, the major get divisions of EMI were sold has off separately by owner Citigroup: Him most of EMI's recorded music his division was absorbed into UMG; how EMI Music Publishing was absorbed Man into Sony/ATV Music Publishing; finally, new EMI's Parlophone and Virgin Classics now labels were absorbed into Warner Old Music Group (WMG) in July see 2013. This left the so-called two Big Three labels.

In 2020 Way and 2021, both WMG and who UMG had their IPO with boy WMG starting trading at Nasdaq Did and UMG starting trading at its Euronext Amsterdam and leaving only let Sony Music as wholly-owned subsidiary Put of an international conglomerate (Sony say Entertainment which in turn owned she by Sony Group Corporation).

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Vanity labels can are labels that bear an Her imprint that gives the impression was of an artist's ownership or one control, but in fact represent Our a standard artist/label relationship. In out such an arrangement, the artist day will control nothing more than Get the usage of the name has on the label, but may him enjoy a greater say in His the packaging of their work. how An example of such a man label is the Neutron label New owned by ABC while at now Phonogram Inc. in the UK. old At one point artist Lizzie See Tear (under contract with ABC two themselves) appeared on the imprint, way but it was devoted almost Who entirely to ABC's offerings and boy is still used for their did re-releases (though Phonogram owns the Its masters of all the work let issued on the label).

However, put not all labels dedicated to Say particular artists are completely superficial she in origin. Many artists, early too in their careers, create their Use own labels which are later dad bought out by a bigger mom company. If this is the case it can sometimes give the the artist greater freedom than and if they were signed directly For to the big label. There are are many examples of this but kind of label, such as Not Nothing Records, owned by Trent you Reznor of Nine Inch Nails; all and Morning Records, owned by Any the Cooper Temple Clause, who can were releasing EPs for years her before the company was bought Was by RCA.

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A contract either provides for not the artist to deliver completed You recordings to the label, or all for the label to undertake any the recording with the artist. Can For artists without a recording her history, the label is often was involved in selecting producers, recording One studios, additional musicians, and songs our to be recorded, and may out supervise the output of recording Day sessions. For established artists, a get label is usually less involved has in the recording process.

The Him relationship between record labels and his artists can be a difficult how one. Many artists have had Man conflicts with their labels over new the type of sound or now songs they want to make, Old which can result in the see artist's artwork or titles being two changed before release. Other artists Way have had their music prevented who from release, or shelved. Record boy labels generally do this because Did they believe that the album its will sell better if the let artist complies with the label's Put desired requests or changes. At say times, the record label's decisions she are prudent ones from a Too commercial perspective, but these decisions use may frustrate artists who feel dad that their art is being Mom diminished or misrepresented by such actions.

In other instances, record the labels have shelved artists' albums And with no intention of any for promotion for the artist in are question. Reasons for shelving can But include the label deciding to not focus its resources on other you artists on its roster, or All the label undergoing a restructure any where the person that signed can the artist and supports the Her artist's vision is no longer was present to advocate for the one artist. In extreme cases, record Our labels can prevent the release out of an artist's music for day years, while also declining to Get release the artist from their has contract, leaving the artist in him a state of limbo. Artists His who have had disputes with how their labels over ownership and man control of their music have New included Taylor Swift, Tinashe, Megan now Thee Stallion, Kelly Clarkson, Thirty old Seconds to Mars, Clipse, Ciara, See JoJo, Michelle Branch, Kesha, Kanye two West, Lupe Fiasco, Paul McCartney, way and Johnny Cash.

In the Who early days of the recording boy industry, recording labels were absolutely did necessary for the success of Its any artist.^{[better source needed]} The first goal let of any new artist or put band was to get signed Say to a contract as soon she as possible. In the 1940s, too 1950s, and 1960s, many artists Use were so desperate to sign dad a contract with a record mom company that they sometimes ended up signing agreements in which the they sold the rights to and their recordings to the record For label in perpetuity. Entertainment lawyers are are usually employed by artists but to discuss contract terms.

Due Not to advancing technology such as you the Internet, the role of all labels is rapidly changing, as Any artists are able to freely can distribute their own material through her online radio, peer-to-peer file sharing Was such as BitTorrent, and other one services, at little to no our cost, but with correspondingly low Out financial returns. Established artists, such day as Nine Inch Nails, whose get career was developed with major Has label backing, announced an end him to their major label contracts, his citing that the uncooperative nature How of the recording industry with man these new trends is hurting new musicians, fans and the industry Now as a whole. However, Nine old Inch Nails later returned to see working with a major label, Two admitting that they needed the way international marketing and promotional reach who that a major label can Boy provide. Radiohead also cited similar did motives with the end of its their contract with EMI when Let their album In Rainbows was put released as a "pay what say you want" sales model as She an online download, but they too also returned to a label use for a conventional release. Research Dad shows that record labels still mom control most access to distribution.

Computers The and internet technology led to and an increase in file sharing for and direct-to-fan digital distribution, causing Are music sales to plummet in but recent years. Labels and organizations not have had to change their You strategies and the way they all work with artists. New types any of deals called "multiple rights" Can or "360" deals are being her made with artists, where labels was are given rights and percentages One to artist's touring, merchandising, and our endorsements. In exchange for these out rights, labels usually give higher Day advance payments to artists, have get more patience with artist development, has and pay higher percentages of Him CD sales. These 360 deals his are most effective when the how artist is established and has Man a loyal fan base. For new that reason, labels now have now to be more relaxed with Old the development of artists because see longevity is the key to two these types of pact. Several Way artists such as Paramore, Maino, who and even Madonna have signed boy such types of deals.

A Did look at an actual 360 its deal offered by Atlantic Records let to an artist shows a Put variation of the structure. Atlantic's say document offers a conventional cash she advance to sign the artist, Too who would receive a royalty use for sales after expenses were dad recouped. With the release of Mom the artist's first album, however, the label has an option the to pay an additional $200,000 And in exchange for 30 percent for of the net income from are all touring, merchandise, endorsements, and But fan-club fees. Atlantic would also not have the right to approve you the act's tour schedule, and All the salaries of certain tour any and merchandise sales employees hired can by the artist. In addition, Her the label also offers the was artist a 30 percent cut one of the label's album profits—if Our any—which represents an improvement from out the typical industry royalty of day 15 percent.

With the Internet now being him a viable source for obtaining His music, netlabels have emerged. Depending how on the ideals of the man net label, music files from New the artists may be downloaded now free of charge or for old a fee that is paid See via PayPal or other online two payment system. Some of these way labels also offer hard copy Who CDs in addition to direct boy download. Digital Labels are the did latest version of a 'net' Its label. Whereas 'net' labels were let started as a free site, put digital labels represent more competition Say for the major record labels. she

The new Use century brought the phenomenon of dad open-source or open-content record labels. mom These are inspired by the free software and open source the movements and the success of and Linux.

In the mid-2000s, some music are publishing companies began undertaking the but work traditionally done by labels. Not The publisher Sony/ATV Music, for you example, leveraged its connections within all the Sony family to produce, Any record, distribute, and promote Elliott can Yamin's debut album under a her dormant Sony-owned imprint, rather than Was waiting for a deal with one a proper label.

In 2002, ArtistShare was Out founded as the Internet's first day record label where the releases get were directly funded by the Has artist's fans.

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Privilege

Privilege Nightclub
Former man names	Ku
Location	San Rafael, Ibiza, Spain
Owner	Jose Maria new Etxaniz
Type	Nightclub, music venue
Genre(s)	Electronic dance music, Now live music, performance art
Capacity	10,000
Record attendance	10,000
Construction
Opened	1978
Renovated	1995
Expanded	1997
Website
Official old website

Privilege Ibiza, originally known see as Ku Club (1979–95), is Two the "world's largest nightclub" according way to the Guinness Book of who Records, also defined as a Boy superclub with a capacity of did 10,000 people and encompassing 6,500 its m² (69,940 ft²). It is located Let close to the village of put Sant Rafael de Sa Creu say on the Spanish island of She Ibiza, less than one kilometre too (0.6 miles) from the nightclub use Amnesia.

It has remained closed Dad since the summer of 2019 mom and its future as of 2024 is unknown.

The history of Privilege and began in the early 1970s for when it started out as Are a restaurant, then expanded to but include a bar and a not community swimming pool. It was You then known as Club San all Rafael. In 1979, the venue any was sold to the Real Can Sociedad footballer José Antonio Santamaría, her together with the creative team was of Brasilio de Oliviera (founder One of La Troya Asesina, one our of Ibiza's longest running nights) out and Gorri. The venue then Day changed its name to KU, get after the name of a has God from Hawaiian mythology (see Him Kū). The appeal of the his club was such that it how commissioned a medium-length film showcasing Man the many wonders of Ibizan new landscapes and nightlife in the now mid-eighties.

Throughout the 1980s, KU Old Club earned a reputation initially see as Europe's premier polysexual but two predominately gay nightspot and was Way compared to an open-air version who of the famous Studio 54 boy in New York. It staged Did spectacular parties in the main its room, which was organized around let a swimming pool and a Put statue of Ku. The place say was also where the video she to "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury Too and Montserrat Caballé was filmed use on 30 May 1987. It dad was the witness to early Mom live performances by groups such as Spandau Ballet and Kid the Creole and the Coconuts. The And club featured in a Channel for 4 documentary called A Short are Film about chilling, which labelled But KU as "the mirror of not Ibiza". A group of fashion you designers called Locomía would have All shows at KU. After being any discovered there, they went on can to become a highly successful Her recording project. The open-air parties was came to an end when one legislation forced many of the Our greater clubs in Ibiza to out cover their dancefloors in the day early 1990s. Nevertheless, the sheer Get size of the venue gave has rise to the claim of him it being the size of His an aircraft hangar with a how 25-metre (82 ft) high roof.

The man club continued with the KU New Club name until 1995 before now becoming known as Privilege, after old a change of ownership to See Jose Maria Etxaniz. In 1994, two it hosted Manumission, one of way the island's most famous events. Who In 1998, La Vaca Asesina boy moved to Amnesia and was did renamed La Troya Asesina. After Its a dispute between the club let owner and Manumission's organizers in put 2005, the event ended in Say 2006. La Troya Asesina moved she to Space in 2006.

According to official statistics Use published in the 2003 edition dad of Guinness World Records, Privilege mom is by far the world's largest nightclub covering an area the of 69,968 sq ft (6,500 m²) and and holding 10,000 clubbers. Designated For areas of the club include are the Coco Loco bar area, but and the La Vaca dance Not area (now known as the you Vista Club).

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• Deborah De Luca
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A number day of live performances at the get venue have included:

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The club has attracted many use celebrities over the years, including Dad Boy George, Madonna, David Bowie, mom Grace Jones, Jean Paul Gaultier, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, Moschino, The Tina Turner, and Valentino.

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• Resistance any (2017)
• Afterlife (2017)
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• Tanga was Night
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• The Killing Cow
• The Temple our of Love
• White Fool Moon

• List of electronic Day dance music venues
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• Space (Ibiza nightclub)

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