https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71 en-us 2022-03-03 01:38:48 UTC 2022-03-03 01:49:30 UTC hello@padlet.com jusmith27 https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71/wish/2074773077 Known as the founder of Hip Hop, he was born and raised to the age of 10 in Kingston, Jamaica, DJ Kool Herc began spinning records at parties and between sets his father’s band played while he was a teenager in the Bronx in the early 1970s. DJ Kool Herc’s signature innovation came from observing how the crowds would react to different parts of whatever record he happened to be playing: “I was noticing people used to wait for particular parts of the record to dance, maybe [to] do their specialty move.” Those moments tended to occur at the drum breaks—the moments in a record when the vocals and other instruments would drop out completely for a measure or two of pure rhythm. What Kool Herc decided to do was to use the two turntables in a typical DJ setup not as a way to make a smooth transition between two records, but as a way to switch back and forth repeatedly between two copies of the same record, extending the short drum break that the crowd most wanted to hear. He called his trick the Merry Go-Round. Today, it is known as the “break beat.”]]> 2022-03-03 01:45:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71/wish/2074773077 jusmith27 https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71/wish/2074773333 2022-03-03 01:45:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71/wish/2074773333 jusmith27 https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71/wish/2074780296 2022-03-03 01:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71/wish/2074780296 jusmith27 https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71/wish/2074780651 2022-03-03 01:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71/wish/2074780651 jusmith27 https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71/wish/2074781030 2022-03-03 01:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jusmith27/vxwi6m0aqckywf71/wish/2074781030