DJ Flare

{{Short description|American turntablist}}

DJ Flare (born Sean Moran) is an American turntablist. He has been a scratch DJ since 1983 with many vinyl releases and was a member of the turntablist group the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, appearing in many of their Turntable TV videos and DJ Qbert's animated film Wave Twisters. He released battle records under the pseudonym "DJ Butchwax" on the Thud Rumble and Dirtstyle Records labels. He also created the Flare Scratch, a scratching technique in which a sound is split in two parts leaving limitless sound possibilities to be created.{{cite book | last=Webber | first=S.W. | title=DJ Skills: The Essential Guide to Mixing and Scratching | publisher=Focal | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-240-52069-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTV5KNXsRIwC&pg=PA269 | access-date=14 May 2019 | page=269}}{{cite book | title=SPIN | publisher=SPIN Media LLC | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NXdfW9kpokC&pg=PA128 | access-date=14 May 2019 | page=128}}{{cite web | author=Archive-LVR-Odiaga | title=San Francisco To Host First Scratch DJ Conference | website=MTV News | date=25 May 2000 | url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1432205/san-francisco-to-host-first-scratch-dj-conference/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514110131/http://www.mtv.com/news/1432205/san-francisco-to-host-first-scratch-dj-conference/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 14, 2019 | access-date=14 May 2019}}{{cite book | last1=Partridge | first1=E. | last2=Dalzell | first2=T. | last3=Victor | first3=T. | title=The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English | publisher=Routledge | series=Dictionary of Slang and Unconvetional English | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-415-21259-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cCVnlIUTpg4C&pg=PA256 | access-date=14 May 2019 | page=256}}{{cite book | last=Weigant | first=C. | title=Careers as a Disc Jockey: Second Edition | publisher=Rosen Publishing Group | series=The Career Resource Library | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8239-3043-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IpRlIbrqJFgC&pg=PA105 | access-date=14 May 2019 | page=105}}{{cite book | last1=Kouri | first1=C.J. | last2=Shure | first2=R.L. | last3=Blake | first3=H. | last4=Lee | first4=J. | last5=Active Graphics | first5=Inc | author6=Hayward Blake & Company | author7=Poppi-Laudatio (Firm) | title=Shure: sound people, products, and values | publisher=Shure Inc. | series=Shure: Sound People, Products, and Values | issue=v. 2 | year=2001 | isbn=978-0-9710738-0-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3gVCAQAAIAAJ | access-date=14 May 2019 }} He released a Scratch DVD called Magnifrying Glass. He is also credited for creating the modern day style of Scratch Flare Scratching. Notable mentions, Flare was also a member of Sound Odyssey, Bullet Proof Scratch Hamsters and N.C.A "no clickers allowed" DJ crew and has worked with such music artists as Run-DMC, Third Eye Blind, El' Stew, Buckethead, Moonraker, MCM & The Monster and singer Mike Patton from Faith No More amongst others.

DJ Flare was featured in the 2001 documentary film Scratch, and also in Wave Twisters.{{cn|date=May 2019}}