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Screwed Up Click

The Houston circle around DJ Screw whose freestyles, voices and neighborhood stories turned the Screw Tapes into a city archive.

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Screwed Up Click
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The Screwed Up Click was the circle around DJ Screw that helped turn his tapes into living documents of Houston. Freestyles, neighborhood voices and long tape sessions gave the sound people, personalities and stories—not just a production technique.

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Slowed tempos, lowered pitch, repeated phrases, abrupt cuts and long freestyles that let Houston voices stretch across the beat instead of racing it.

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