Backspinning
Backspinning is taking a pair of records and repeating the same portion of each record alternately -- in effect "looping" the segments together continuously.
This style of rewinding the record backwards to locate a cue point has been used by radio Disc Jockeys for many years prior to the Hip-hop movement, but not until the emergence of Kool Herc, Bamabatta and especially Grandmaster Flash, had it been done so cleverly and rapid in a live setting. What the Hip-hop DJ did so masterfully was in finding exciting portions of recordings, usually "a break" or "a bridge" in a recording and then extended this grooves over and over, in effect making a brand new abstracted version of the original.
Jamaican born, Dj Kool Herc is the earliest pioneer of this style and in effect created a dub like instrumentals from these rear records, that early Emcees raped/toasted over at a party. As hip-hop grew, the Emcees turned in Rappers, as the DJs turn toward samplers to precisely manipulate their loops. Today backspining is the basic method used for many Dj especially when you see exciting battle-style body tricks or lively party-rocking doublings, triplings, etc...
