On scratch is the term used in handicap competitions for a player with no handicap or the maximum handicap (depending on the way the handicap is rendered), thus having to perform better than every other competitor to win.
A scratch is also an action which may either be done in violence or in response to an itch.
'Scratch' can also be used as a slang term for money.
Scratch can also mean to forget about or to move past.
Scratch Race - a race in which all contestant start from scratch (on equal terms).
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Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique originated by Grand Wizard Theodore, an early hip hopDJ from New York (AMG).
Theodore developed scratching from DJ Grandmaster Flash, who describes scratching as, "nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it [the recorded sound] out to the crowd." (Toop, 1991) Kool Herc was also an important early figure.
When scratching, this crossfader is utilized in conjunction with the "scratching hand" to cut in and out of the scratched record.
Scratching records is a form of turntablism, which is the manipulation of a turntable, pre-recorded music, and mixer in a "free-form" manner (i.e., like jazz musicians that improvise).
Scratch records are usually made with a better grade of vinyl (such as "regrind") and are less likely to become damaged.
To practice transformer scratching, find a constant note (often found in made for scratch records) and while that note is playing, move the upfader on the mixer up-and-down as quick as possible.
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