Must see for music lovers, specially hip hop heads. Not only about scratching, but also the evolution of the music and culture, breakbeats, sampling, and many other foundational elements of modern music. Pure gold

This is a great documentary even if it doesn't really ask many questions of it's protagonists. Maybe that's because of the time it was made when Shadow seemed like the great new hope for Hip-Hop and the instrumental album was taking centre stage. The opening 45mins are the strongest looking at the history of scratching and the foundations of Hip-Hop. It loses it's way towards the end when endorsing scratch break records and DJ trickery rather than collaboration with the MC. Still well worth a view though.

Not quite as much a 'how to' as I expected, but an interesting walk thru the brief history/culture of scratching. Interesting music throughout the movie, and interviews with a lot of passionate people. Not riveting, but decent.

Scratch is well made but unfortunately leaves no emotional impact on its viewers.

A passionate j-j-jour-j-j-jour-journey-j-j-j-journey through the wor-wiki-world of turntablism.

Look. Even if you just hate scratching, think that hip hop is just garbage, and believe that a turntable is not a musical instrument, this documentary is a must. It just does a great job in showing the luminaries of the genre. It celebrates/knows it's history (something Rock and Roll really doesn't in many ways). Nearly all DJ's agree on certain values, beliefs, etc, and they almost all agree that DJing as a music form hit the big time with Herbie Hancock's "Rock It" in 1983. It is fascinating and even if you don't agree, you have to respect the voodoo that is turntablism. Plus Mix Master Mike and QBert are god's amongst DJing men.

A must for any hip-hop fan & you'll need a notebook ;)

Best Documentary Feature 2001

Finally a real movie depicting real hip hop. Great for any music lover, I really like this documentary.

Interesting and informative.

Freaking sweet documentary on the evolution of DJ/turntable culture that traces it back to it's roots. Anyone watching this will gain an appreciation for it as an art form.

A good, energetic documentary on turtablism. Highly recommended to those interested in turtablism.

Super fun documentary about real DJ's.

this is a good music documentary. i'm not into rap or hip hop but it was still very interesting to me.

Amazing. For anyone who knows very little about how it all began (myself included) this is the perfect starter pack. Excellent interviews, lots of lovely insights (DJ SHadow and Q-bert in particular) and some truly enviable early footage of people like Premier, Mix Mike and Gangstarr. An absolute must see for any one who likes music.

From GrandMixer DST to Q-bert this is a complimation of all the best turntablists in the world. It's the evolution and beyond!

All heads wreckanize.

SUPER documentary about the history of turntablists. great history lesson. love the africa bambaataa scenes and especially grand master flash spinning in his kitchen. don't miss it!

Incredibly interesting.

makes me wanna get out some turntables and play around from minute one