Rob Bailey, Arizona Daily Star, 16 November 2001 'In terms of having stuff like the record scratches and organ sounds, adding them to the live performance would mean dealing with tape loops and other musicians,' Valentine said. Record scratch as a description of the sound itself was initially used in music contexts: Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia), 22 April 1988 The DJ hand-turns a record to 'scratch' the music and make sound effects, or intersperse other music.
Jon Pareles, The New York Times, 17 Jun. ST., whose instrument is a turntable and who makes sounds by ''scratching'' records back and forth. Hancock is a veteran jazz pianist who has kept up-to-date with the latest gadgets and styles the Rockit Band includes Grandmixer D. In addition, they work with a live band rather than a record-“scratching” dee-jay. The literal sound came to be used figuratively as a rhetorical interruptionīy the ‘80s, the terms had moved beyond music journals and were being used in print in major newspapers:
