Deux platines vinyles et Hip-hop, c’est parti - Les folles inventions musicales

More episodes of #FollesInventionsMusicales 👉 http://bit.ly/LesFollesInventionsMusi... Subscribe! 👉 http://bit.ly/2QLeh5V In this episode, #PVNova tells the story of hip-hop. How was hip-hop born? It's 1973, in the Bronx, New York. At the time, it was a poor neighborhood, with many African Americans and Latinos, a neighborhood with a lot of violence, where young people were often unemployed and took refuge in music, especially funk and disco. One day, Clive Campbell... who preferred to be called DJ Kool Herc... decided to organize the first Block Party. A Block Party, literally, is a neighborhood party. To play music, DJs used a turntable, on which they played vinyl records. Except that day, Kool Herc had a brilliant idea: using two turntables. The huge advantage is that it avoids a big gap at the end of each song. By alternating between the two decks, the DJ can play music non-stop, and even mix two tracks together. And the moment the audience loves most is when there's a break. A break is a drum solo in the middle of a song. Since it's an exclusively rhythmic passage, the people dancing are really going all out, giving it their all, but... for ten seconds, because, generally, on a song, that's how long the drum solo lasts. So, DJ Kool Herc had another brilliant idea: he was inspired by a discovery a teenager made in his bedroom: scratching! DJ Kool Herc took up the principle of blocking the vinyl and making it go backwards to artificially lengthen the drum breaks. As soon as he reaches the end, he switches to the second turntable, on which he's put the same record, and resets the break from the first turntable to the beginning. This creates a potentially infinite break, and the dancers finally find themselves able to develop their movements. And this specific dance, which develops during breaks, is called... breakdancing! Even more content at: https://www.lumni.fr Find Lumni on: Facebook ▶   / lumnifr   Twitter ▶   / lumni.fr   Instagram ▶   / lumnifr