obliterating gatekeepers with fart, burp, and beeping sounds from outer space.

B is for BOLD, B-Boys, and B-Girls.

"Invisible Scratch Piklz" is one of the greatest crews in turntablism’s history.

They were so good that the Disco Mix Club (DMC), an international DJ association, asked them to stop competing since they were discouraging other DJs from entering.

But this post is not about Piklz's skills.

The cool thing about them, what really sets them apart, is what Dj Shadow shares in the "Scratch" documentary.

Piklz were the first to take the secrecy out of DJing.

Because a lot of DJing was based on covering the labels so that nobody knew what you had, not revealing your tricks

and the pickles were the first people to just be like:

“Hey, here's exactly how to do what we do we want you to go out and do it better so that we can learn from you”

that was a giant step forward, and they were so far ahead at the time that people a lot of times crowds would just be like, "damn"

Damn, indeed, Mr. Dj Shadow.

Piklz's so-far-aheadness came in two flavors:

1- Mind-boggling turntable skills.

2- Outstanding generosity in showing their methods when they didn't have to.

The good news is that the rest of the world has caught up with the Piklz way.

Not because we can scratch and mix like them (we can't),

but

because everyone has removed the labels from the top of their records (we can) so others can level up the game.

Here is a list of label removers, just to name a few:

Werner Herzog, Roxane Gay, Amber Vittoria, Tom Sachs, MKBHD, Stephen King, Dan Harmond, Cas Holman, Es Devlin and Questlove.

So what can we do?

Simple: turn your browsing experience into a crate-digging session in the quest of a record with a break we can use in the mix.

Check the dollar bin, the top of the shelf, and the end of the jar.

There is something for everyone.

Get your breaks, run them wild, and don’t forget to show us how you did it, so we all can be like: "damn"