scratch monkey (n.) ; a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Founded 1999, the SkratchMunkey crew is an inside community network of New York media related turntable production dwellers, true to the artform of hiphop sound. Dedicated to the progression of the scratch frontier, the SkratchMunkey community allows the congregation of aspiring and fanatically devoted artists to communicate and thus collaborate. The results are a collective phenomena of beats, rhymes, and most formidably, the scratch.