Grandmaster Flash

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1958-01-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

346,832

Total plays

1,946,955

Grandmaster Flash (born Joseph Saddler on January 1, 1958 in Barbados) is a hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. Saddler's family migrated to the United States, and he grew up in the Bronx. He became involved in the earliest Queensbridge, New York DJ scene, attending parties set up by early luminaries. Learning from Pete Jones and Kool Herc, he used duplicate copies of a single record and two turntables <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Grandmast

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The coordination of arm movements: an experimentally confirmed mathematical model

   · 1985 · cited 3,369x

2. Dynamic interactions between limb segments during planar arm movement

   · 1982 · cited 621x

3. The control of hand equilibrium trajectories in multi-joint arm movements

   · 1987 · cited 498x

4. Motor primitives in vertebrates and invertebrates

   · 2005 · cited 389x

5. Multiple shifts in the representation of a motor sequence during the acquisition of skilled performance

   · 2003 · cited 312x

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Quotes

• “Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records. The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.”
• “A scratch is nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it out to the crowd. All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go — when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to. For instance, if you're playing a record with drums--horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Joseph

Gender

male

Citizenship

Barbados

Place of birth

Bridgetown

Occupation

disc jockey

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Polar Music Prize

Genre

electro

Instrument

voice

Official website

www.grandmasterflash.com

Image

Grandmaster Flash - James Lavelle's Meltdown Festival 2014 (cropped).jpg

Work location

New York City

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