"
My definition of a Turntablist is a person who uses the turntables not to play music, but to manipulate sound and create music."
(
Interview with Christo Macias,
Palo Alto, CA,
May 1996.)
Turntablism is the art of creating music with turntables. This is not the standard cutting of beats here; this is the use of existing samples, cleverly manipulated, to evoke a soundscape.