By the 1990s, hip hop artists of Filipino descent (particularly turntablists like Q-Bert, Mix Master Mike, and the Invisibl Skratch Piklz) achieved prominence and came to dominate the DJ art form of scratching, introducing the world to a more innovative style of scratching utilizing a wide variety of new techniques, including the playing of actual melodies, as well as the inventions of the "crab scratch", "tweak scratch", "strobing", and furthering the development of "flare scratching".