Nice! I highly recommend purchasing an innofader, they are butter smooth, cut and curve and stiffness adjustable and only cost about $150 from memory. They can be retrofitted to almost any mixer you choose or can afford. As for hamster style, go for it, i try to use normal and hamster on both sides with both hands and scratch with left and right hand aswell. Get your hands on the standard fresh, aaah and oh yeah samples and look for horn stabs etc too. I can link you to heaps of samples if you are using a dvs otherwise just buy a heap of thud rumble battle vinyls. Keep it up, practice yo cuts and try shit that feels backwards or uncomfortable, thats how i usually stumble onto new paterns and combos. Wikka wikka!!!!!!