Why do I state this? Turntablism skills can lead to new and effective ways of completing transitions and mixing songs. I will use the term “EDM” not as the genre term, but more towards describing dance music as a whole, as it gets pretty stale having to type out dance music everytime.
Getting back to turntablism and primarily scratching, while being a whole different skill set, can help a DJ to get out of a bind when close to making a mixing mistake. Say a DJ has his two songs beatlocked, but right as he/she is about to make a transition to the next song, accidently nudges the incoming song and thus causing a trainwreck. Let’s list the options available to the DJ.
Option A: The DJ could just move the crossfader over and thus cutting to the next song.
Option B: The DJ could try to fix the trainwreck, but depending on the skill level may either fix it right away or take a few seconds to fix.
Option C: This option would require learning basic scratching skills, you could baby scratch the train wreck and mix into the next song.
Most EDM DJs will only have access to Option A or Option B, but having Option C as well opens up a whole other level of options. Maybe I will upload examples in the near future.