We’ve heard of people using a record player and cassette deck to make pause-button edits of songs, but this is the first time we’ve seen someone scratch a cassette tape.

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Using a handful of tapes, two dual-cassette boomboxes and a mixer, DJ Ruthless Ramsey shuttles cassette tape past the boomboxes’ play heads with scratch and mix with more precision than some DJs have with vinyl.

For good measure, Ramsay sidles over to some vinyl decks near the end of the video to prove he’s no one-trick pony; he can scratch vinyl too.

(via gearfuse)