September 9, 2026
Serato DJ 5.0 Public Beta First Look – Beatgrids Go Lucid!
Serato’s 5.0 versions of DJ Pro and DJ Lite have gone into public beta today. They bring with them new flexible BPM analysis, called Lucid Beatgrids...
Saturday, April 18, 2015
How to ‘Chop and Screw’ with Ableton Live
In Scratch DJ Academy’s new “Watch and Learn” episode, Los Angeles DJ/producer Them Jeans shows one of many ways to “chop and screw” a song with Ableton Live.
Chopped and screwed is a remix technique that slows down a song’s tempo and applies manual delay effects. DJ Screw is largely recognized as the creator of the method, which became popular in the Houston hip-hop scene during the ’90s.
Them Jeans recently dropped an entire mixtape of chopped and screwed tracks, one of which is Drake’s “Energy” (the song used in this video).
Watch the tutorial above and stream and download his mix below:
Related: How to EQ Kick Drums in Ableton Live
