"the world's first levitating turntable" When it comes to turntables, I've found that there are largely three rough groups one can use to classify them: bad turntables, good turntables, and look that record is flying in the air turntables.
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The team behind DUO has previous experience in making turntables.
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Crosley's turntables don't have the best reputation among vinyl heads.
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It was literally like having turntables on your tape player.
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But it turns out he can work the turntables, too.
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Turntables and needles can be fussy, especially in a club environment.
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Once they made anvil cases for turntables, those became an instrument too.
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Working the turntables is similar to running a gyoza restaurant, she said.
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He would set up & break down my turntables every night on tour.
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The other breakthrough was having the action of the play, at the beginning, take place on three turntables, allowing for rapid location shifts; then, as the play goes on and gets more abstract, the turntables spin away and vanish.
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Seales proved herself just as competent behind a mic and turntables as well.
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Both Sony and Panasonic announced new turntables, and not just for nostalgia's sake.
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Because I love vintage records, turntables and speakers this watch is a favorite.
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Meanwhile, you'll love that it's not exorbitantly expensive, as some turntables can be.
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What he was doing musically on the turntables was unprecedented at the time.
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Most Crosley turntables look and feel cheap, but the C200 is an exception.
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He helped their D.J., DJ Scratch, assemble and disassemble his turntables at shows.
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Turntables seemed like a particular extravagance, since hardly anyone listened to records anymore.
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Like other high-end turntables, this one doesn't have a built-in preamp.
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Some turntables are portable, but you still have to haul a large machine.
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And what else do Millennials love, besides pizza, college sports, and DJ turntables?
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I play digitally, and it's different than playing on turntables, but I like it.
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They sell turntables, commission their own music books and even press their own records.
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Image: Nicholas Stango/GizmodoLast year, Panasonic revived the famous Technics 1200 line of turntables.
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Portable suitcase turntables are easy to use, and they don't cost all that much.
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Some turntables even allow you to swap out the phono cartridge as an upgrade.
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There aren't many physical differences between the HX500 and other high-end contemporary turntables.
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Integrate turntables, a mic, or a CD player, and monitor your mix in headphones.
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But I spent countless hours playing on turntables that didn't even have pitch control.
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Its latest product Phase lets you turn good old turntables into digital DJ controllers.
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We've rounded up some killer deals on turntables for Record Store Day this year.
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When they get there, the crowd is raging and Grandmaster Flash is helming the turntables.
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I recorded the mix at home, in real time on 2 turntables and a mixer.
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Gavin Bryan [owner]: One week we came in and the turntables and mixer were gone.
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Glasgow: As a patron, Sneak and Derrick Carter on four turntables was amazing to watch.
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Other companies rolling out turntables (at more approachable prices) include Crosley, Audio-Technica and Onkyo.
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This voter's got no turntables or a microphone, but he does have a voting booth.
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"It's like with old vinyl, and how everyone wants to have turntables again," she said.
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Last time we walked by, a friendly D.J. was on the turntables in the window.
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But the most important items in both places are the turntables, tube amplifiers and speakers.
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That being said, proud owners of turntables also tend to keep growing their vinyl collections.
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The company made so many 22016-series turntables that the original moldings and dies wore out.
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One of the most affordable suitcase-style turntables is the Musitrend Turntable Portable Suitcase record player.
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Later the company expanded to leather goods, bikes, and other products including turntables and now headphones.
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Stereos, turntables, cigarette cartons, iconic cartoon characters, and classic paintings aren't immune from his dimpled remix.
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That's Amazon, which sold more turntables than any other home audio product this past holiday season.
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True collectors will stack their walls with records, and their turntables are set to a permanent spin.
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She has a matching toy Lamborghini truck, a Mercedes Benz G63 toy truck and her own turntables.
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She has a matching toy Lamborghini truck, a Mercedes Benz G63 toy truck and her own turntables!
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The third, "SOUND", features turntables and tape recorders where you can listen to people telling their stories.
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She bent over a pair of digital turntables, her eyes closed, adjusting knobs and dancing in place.
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After making a name for himself in Columbus, Ohio, cutting up records on turntables in local d.j.
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The oversized clothes and turntables on the packaging related to an older generation of hip-hop fans.
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I've been playing records for 12 years, and in that time I've used a lot of turntables.
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The $279 Crosley C200 is one of the more affordable, yet still higher-end turntables on the market.
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An additional 1200 turntables have been designated for international sales and have an unconfirmed release date of June.
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We started with Buzz Godard from Pro-Ject Audio Systems, makers of high-end turntables and audio equipment.
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Her parents introduced her to a DJ who taught her about how to use turntables and mix songs.
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Crosley sent the mahogany wood version, and it's easily one of the better-looking turntables I've ever seen.
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He was also seen chatting with the many women at the table as DJ Que manned the turntables.
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He also claims to have one of only five pairs of Technics MK1200 turntables in the whole country.
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It's sturdier and heavier than some of the cheaper turntables out there from brands like Crosley and Denon.
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Original cast recordings of New York shows were still regularly spinning on turntables in middle-class American homes.
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At the time, he had a keyboard, turntables, a drum machine and records, according to the New Times.
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Select rooms come with their own guitars and turntables, while friendly Chicago flavor is felt throughout the hotel.
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It allows me to be creatively stimulated and do things that just weren't possible with two or three turntables.
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In Edible Sounds Herbert takes ordinary foods and amplifies the noises they make, using speaker systems and DJ turntables.
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Few work a pair of turntables and mixer better than Vienna-born, LA-based DJ and producer John Tejada.
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In its review, What HiFi said this is one of the best USB-ripping turntables you can buy — period.
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Just like Super 8 cameras and Polaroids, turntables were practically rendered extinct when they had a sudden, unexpected resurgence.
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Dizzee was inside when it happened and managed to get out, bringing the turntables with him, but that's all.
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The new Technics was focused on building the best turntables it could, regardless of the records they would play.
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Everybody was sweatin' them, and the whole bringing the turntables and setting it up, that shit just attracted me.
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Orangemonkie fixes that with smart and easy-to-use lightboxes and turntables, making photography fool-proof for online sellers.
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There's a reason he has mostly spent his life behind the turntables or introducing other talent to the world.
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The VPI Classic Direct Turntable These turntables are made with some of the best audio parts money can buy.
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"I asked the store's staff if I could get two turntables," he recalls, speaking through a translator on Skype.
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And in the lobby, just beside the makeshift bar, there was a listening station with some turntables set up.
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So, Danny, myself and Chris on the turntables got together to riff and chat about what is going on.
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Pros: A good value versus other turntables in this price range, includes high-end cartridge for great sound quality, easily outperforms beginner-level turntables in terms of rich sound output Cons: High price point for beginners, no dust cover included Buy the Marantz TT-15S1 Reference Belt Drive Turntable on Amazon for $1,499
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Turntables would start turning faster when aligned with the universe's motion, and angular momentum would not appear to be conserved.
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Some turntables are open to the air, so you may need to buy a cover to protect it from dust.
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When I first started DJing it became the highlight because of the tricks on the turntables that I was doing.
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However, around the one hour mark, the guys threw their CDJs to the side and replaced them with three turntables.
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After a quick submission win via an unorthodox inverted shoulder lock, the toehold specialist sat back down behind the turntables.
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But "really good" doesn't even describe VPI's Classic line of turntables, which can run up to $260,245 for some models.
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The refresh adds some haptic feedback to the motorized jog wheels to more closely recreate the feel of real turntables.
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The company will talk about all of its new devices, from connected speakers to cameras, TVs and maybe even turntables.
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If you look at other turntables with similar features and design, you'll find that this is a pretty good deal.
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In the days before opening, the production's turntables, a new kind of cable-driven stage device, failed to work properly.
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By eighth grade, I had moved on to turntables; by ninth grade, I was into drum machines, samplers and rapping.
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Many of us just returned from CES where we were blinded by TVs and saw the future of tech in turntables.
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It can't quite match the rich audio quality of some more expensive models, but it compares favorably to similarly priced turntables.
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There are levitating clocks, levitating tops, levitating turntables, levitating speakers, levitating incense holders, levitating light bulbs, and so many levitating plants.
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People can be pretty picky about their turntables, especially when they have the money to throw at a really good one.
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When I first started DJing I had to save up to buy turntables and vinyl, and it was an expensive investment.
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The turntables pop up everywhere — on concert stages and album covers and in the studios of genre legends like Grandmaster Flash.
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While it does have a cover, it's less technical-looking than its sister turntables, but still includes a built-in preamp.
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Nearly snapping my neck off as D.J. Premiere fired one sonic dart after another from his turntables into an adoring crowd.
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In the past few years, Shinola's been getting into the audio market in the form of fancy, expensive headphones, speakers, and turntables.
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Osaka's Vampillia have described themselves as a "brutal orchestra"; their 173-member lineup includes multiple vocalists, violin, guitar, piano, turntables, and bass.
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They sell the sleek, vintage-inspired Crosley turntables in their stores; the partnership helped to shift more than 1m units in 2015.
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Direct-drive turntables like the Technics SL-1200 have sufficient torque to get its platter spinning at the appropriate speed almost instantly.
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Floating clocks, turntables, speakers, incense holders, light bulbs, and a surprising number of plants have successfully made their way through crowdfunding sites.
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Now it swung to and fro over Korean War transmitters, third-hand tape decks, broken turntables and scavenged tubes, resistors and capacitors.
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Actor Idris Elba hit the turntables and turned DJ, bringing the house down playing soul, 1960s R&B and 1980s dance hits.
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The new SL-1200G and 1200GAE are bigger, and promise to be better than any of the turntables that came before them.
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Having to buy a whole album for one song, and technical problems with vinyl records and turntables helped drive the digital migration.
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Skills were honed in bedrooms on "ones-and-twos"—the Technics 1200 turntables that were the only choice for an aspiring mixer.
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The last thing you should do is drop $100 on one of the junk turntables you'll find at Target or Best Buy.
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The audio business includes KRK, Cerwin Vega and Stanton headphones, loud speakers and turntables for amateur and professional musicians and sound engineers.
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So what should we make of the trend that saw Paris Hilton and other bikini-clad models taking over after-party turntables?
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Most other stores have joined the fray with even discount supermarkets offering money off everything from vintage turntables to legs of ham.
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It struggled throughout previews with mechanical malfunctions — the set has five turntables built into the stage floor, and they have periodically jammed.
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The phenakistoscopes in "Special Re:Quest" were produced through engraved wooden discs that Tetz fashioned to look like vinyl records on Daedelus's turntables.
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It has a separately housed power supply that's a departure from most turntables' all-in-one design, meant to minimize hum and vibration.
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While most kids get toys at Christmas, Dupri recalls asking Santa for turntables — a necessary tool to bring him closer towards his dream.
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As if the legendary line-up wasn't enough, Grammy award-winning DJ Mark Ronson worked his magic on the turntables at the event.
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Canseco joined him onstage for a kiss after which she and pal Charlotte D'Alessio had a go at the turntables for one song.
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Simple, inexpensive turntables are the easiest to operate, as they have all components ready to go, but they fall behind in audio quality.
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This enables you to play and scratch the music loaded in the software using turntables without the use of a needle and tonearm.
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A series of singes and turntables allow it to be built and reconfigured—like the bastard child of Lego and a Rubik's Cube.
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"Because the original 1210 turntables were manufactured for so many years, the manufacturing process had got to a very low cost," he said.
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All you need is a passion for creating music magic and a feature-rich digital audio workstation (DAW) to start working the turntables.
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In 1965, a Panasonic brand called Technics would begin not only to dominate but transform the world of high-end audio, especially turntables.
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Typically turntables in this price range will have a switch on the base to easily change speeds, but that's not the case here.
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Turntables were also Amazon's biggest selling audio product at Christmas and John Lewis reported a 240 percent increase in turntable sales last year.
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Its outward design is based closely on classic Technics players, but isn't as sleek or stylish as more modern turntables from other manufacturers.
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First there was a pizza ATM in Cincinnati, followed by the development of high-tech pizza boxes that morph into pipes and turntables.
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He will be joined behind the turntables by the Los Angeles-based funk artist Dam-Funk and Miranda Maxwell, a local D.J. elsewherebrooklyn.
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It also has an input for receivers, CD players, turntables, and anything else you might want to play over your entire Sonos system.
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Panasonic emphasizes the effort that goes into making the turntables, which are now produced at a different factory about two hours from Tokyo.
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We didn't have guitars, turntables and vinyl records in our room, but some of the larger rooms and suites had these quirky amenities.
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He bussed a pint glass from their table, set up two turntables and a mixer, and set his records up on the windowsill.
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I heard about U-Turn's turntables long before I was able to try one for myself, but the hype they receive isn't exaggerated.
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It's actually kinda lit cause I always hog the aux to play some sauce, so fuck it why not put it on some turntables.
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And while we've written about lots of fancy and interesting takes on turntables in the past, there's no real gimmick to the Runwell Turntable.
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A new coreless direct drive motor should eliminate the minor cogging issue some SL-73 turntables experienced — tiny vibrations that can cause rotation irregularities.
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Moreover, after abandoning the DJ community that made its turntables famous, Panasonic seems to have no incentive of even trying to win them back.
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Usually, high-end turntables aimed at those seeking the best audio quality require you to buy all the individual components of your setup separately.
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It's one of the most popular turntables in the world, and you can grab a used one on eBay for under $1000 right now.
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If this whole time you've just been patiently waiting to buy one of these direct drive turntables for yourself, that time is finally here.
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This straight disc jockey from Newark—I don't even know his name—loved my song and began to put it back on the turntables.
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It was hard to get the hang of it—I was used to using vinyl turntables—so I just imagined there was a needle.
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Oh and since we are on the subject: a couple days before I was requested to record this mix both of my turntables died.
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If Chausée was a DJ, the projectors would be his turntables and the rack of film strips he keeps behind him his record collection.
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There was this one kid who couldn't really DJ. He had the turntables, he had a system, he could mix, but he couldn't scratch.
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He was my road manager—making sure there were drinks onstage and that the turntables were working, making sure that I made my flight.
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It would serve as a basis for the soundtrack which would be presented and mixed live at the show on tape and three turntables.
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Moch, the band she's assembled for the performance, features Formanek on bass, Mauricio Herrera on percussion and Noel Brennan on turntables, electronics and video.
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Still, sales have climbed to $100 million annually; the company has partnered with manufacturers across the country to make everything from backpacks to turntables.
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Enough space for everything and everyone, private bathroom, special spot for vinyl, great monitors, turntables, slipmats, needles, and anything else you might possibly need.
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Then he lets you try out the record spins yourself, explaining how you can adjust the crossfader and beats per minute to control the turntables.
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When I ask Rodriguez how they were able to construct turntables, toca-discos in Spanish, he responds with a laugh and a play on words.
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Calvin Harris is returning to the turntables Friday for the first time since his car accident – and breakup with girlfriend of 15 months Taylor Swift.
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Snoop Dogg, took over the turntables next, smoking on his favorite past time while rocking the crowd to a mix of old and new hits.
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Using bright, complimentary colors that bounced off each other, viewers encounter blank flat screens, artfully organized speakers and turntables, vacant double doors, or entryway knickknacks.
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In the not-too-distant past, vinyl records and turntables seemed like relics — items of kitsch from a bygone period, like bellbottoms or aerosol hairspray.
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With every volunteer preoccupied and his mother distracted, Winslow took an opportunity to sneak over to the turntables and give the hired DJ a break.
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In the Doodle, which featured designs by graffiti artist Cey Adams, users could fiddle with interactive turntables and mix their own samples from famous songs.
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Brooklyn's own DJ Tunez mans the turntables and Banky W, a smooth singer in his own right, plays Murray the K. At 2212:2360 p.m.
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The 34-year-old Brooklyn-based DJ-producer was born in Kalamazoo, MI, where he learned to DJ on a set of pawn shop turntables.
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But that all changed when word spread that Solomon hit the turntables at clubs around Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Hamptons under the name D-Sol.
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The vinyl records by the bar refer to the Japanese jazz cafes called kissa, which flourished in the '60s, when turntables and speakers were rarities.
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It uses big turntables, robotic arms and a network of checks and balances to ensure that cars get from point A to point B unscathed.
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After plugging a receiver to your mixer, you just have to put two tiny receivers at the center of your turntables, on top of records.
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Most models on this list contain a built-in preamp, since our experts say that such turntables are the easiest and most straightforward to use.
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This record player's key feature is the magnet-powered "direct drive," which is usually only found in professional-grade turntables or other, more expensive units.
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But many residents say that beer, along with cannabis and other drugs, is openly consumed on a grassy area where turntables and D.J.s entertain crowds.
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It led to buying turntables, dancing at festivals in the park, and finally, he became one of the country's rising stars, eventually joining the Jabbawockeez.
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Since the looting became citywide, many aspiring DJs who couldn't afford turntables and mixers were able to obtain the equipment through looting, according to Slate.
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Canadian DJ and producer Skratch Bastid is mourning the recent death of Prince in the most suiting way possible, with a tribute performance on the turntables.
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Click here to view original GIFThere's a crap ton of steel in broken down bridges and some of that steel gets repurposed into things like turntables.
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The audio hardware industry has been quick to respond, offering updated turntables with modern day features that are surely blowing the minds of Baby Boomers everywhere.
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It stayed in production all the way until 2010, at which point Technics' parent company Panasonic discontinued production of analog turntables due to changing market conditions.
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Both of these new turntables offer less pricey alternatives to last year's reissue of the historic Technics SL-1200 turntable, the SL-1200G, which costs $4,000.
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"In terms of turntables, there is a different sound to analog than digital that can be appreciated," said Barbara Kraus, director of research at Parks Associates.
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I never actually planned to become a DJ—we just had turntables at home because my brother and his friends were really into the scratching scene.
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While Corbyn tabled a vote of no confidence in the house, the DJ—known to his fans as SUAT—was on the turntables playing some house.
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In addition to the clothes, there are two sets of turntables, one for vinyl and one for CDs, and stickers for the community radio site Balamii.
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The crew members constructed spinning turntables covered in snow to jostle the lemmings and send them tumbling, and then proceeded to throw them off the cliff .
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Gear can cost an additional $1,000 or more, and includes a basic sound system, two speakers, two turntables, a wireless mic, a mixer, and an assistant.
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The museum is filled with custom-made records spinning on turntables, each playing a recording of the victim's confrontation with police right before they were killed.
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The store, named after its now-departed resident feline, offers both new and used LPs, turntables and a staff known for their expert taste in music.
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Smelling money, the Big Three labels rereleased their legacy acts on hot wax, Technics started making SL-1200 turntables again, and vinyl got its own global holiday.
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The Doodle features art from graffiti artist Cey Adams and has interactive turntables that let you mix your own samples using famous songs right from Google's homepage.
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Artists went to clubs — Keith Haring, Zoe Leonard, and David Wojnarowicz all even worked at Danceateria at one point — played in bands, even stepped behind the turntables.
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Pizza Hut is a leader in this space, creating everything from sneakers that can pause your TV and order pizza to building working turntables into pizza boxes.
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This preserves the tactile feedback of DJing with turntables (allowing for things like slip-cueing and scratching), but it doesn't eliminate the pitfalls that come with it.
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All the while, the video backdrop behind the turntables rolls the iconic "I'm flying" scene from Titanic, edited to superimpose Aoki's face on both DiCaprio and Winslet.
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The audiophile community then peed a little in 2016, when the company announced that it would once again start building the legendary Technics 1200 direct-drive turntables.
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Panasonic unveiled its newest TVs, Blu-Ray players with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa built-in and even a couple new Technics turntables for those rediscovering vinyl.
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Therefore the musician, real name Eric San, was the perfect candidate to bring to Toronto in January to perform on turntables in the back of a car.
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The Audio-Technica AT-LP60 Bluetooth Turntable carries a lower price point than most turntables with decent audio quality, which makes it a good entry-level option.
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The exodus deepened when Mr. Parrish played the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," and shortly after he spun Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy," club management yanked him off the turntables.
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The reality star, 37, was spotted behind the turntables at Shrine at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Connecticut, on Friday as he joined newly married DJ Ruckus and several friends.
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For $400,000 you could buy a private island, get yourself a nice house, buy a couple of quad calibrated turntables, or... nab this Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon card.
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"For the pantry, the staple items are always a selection of turntables, three-tier risers for canned goods, and then some combination of canisters and bins," Clea says.
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Nakadia Mungphanklang now sometimes jets between multiple countries in a day, but Thailand's most prominent underground techno DJ and producer grew up without running water, let alone turntables.
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A 2009 school project shows one attempting DJ movements with vinyl, and another 2009 video shows one selecting and rotating records on turntables to create ghostly scratching sounds.
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Confronted with D.J.-turntables, a megaphone and clicking metal frogs — not to mention three percussion stations — the soloist resorts to hitting a metal barrel with a giant hammer.
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Best known for its speaker systems, hi-fi manufacturer Fluance is taking its first steps into the once again popular world of turntables with the RT80 and RT81.
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Also actually participating in the party post or pre set and getting involved on the other side of the turntables or giving credit to resident DJs is underrated.
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It resembles something that appears more appropriate for the era of 8-tracks and turntables, and it facilitates full playback control but can be somewhat clunky when worn.
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The quest to bring the Golden Record to turntables around the world started with a Kickstarter in 2016, which quickly reached its fundraising goal, raising $1,363,037 for the project.
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Let's all take a moment to thank YouTuber WhyBeAre for figuring out how to control Overwatch's musical support hero Lúcio with the faux-turntables from Activision's DJ Hero series.
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The DJ, fresh off a six-month hiatus from the turntables, had the crowd going wild when he brought Alesso out as a special guest to close the night.
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We've curated a selection of the best turntables to choose, based on your listening habits, as well as some must-have records for your collection, all available at Walmart.
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And instead of a lovely serenade, Cookie gets Biz Markie rapping "Just a Friend" live in her living room, with turntables to boot — just what every girl wants, right?
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It was ten years ago that Panasonic decided to close its Technics audio division, halting the production of some of the most famous, durable, and celebrated turntables on Earth.
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In the past couple of years, we've seen the resurgence of things we've enjoyed from yesteryear — Polaroids, turntables and vinyl records, the Nokia 3310, heck, even bell-bottom jeans.
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The spike in sales comes at a time when vinyl is experiencing a resurgence, causing turntables to fly off marketplace shelves and pressing plants to be overwhelmed with orders.
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For a performance commissioned by the gallery titled Edible Sound, Herbert drilled center holes into everything from celeriac to processed cheese slices and "played" them using highly amplified turntables.
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For the party, they'd set up turntables and a screen on the roof of the slaughterhouse, which sits below the level of the road on a scrubby waterside bluff.
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I'll give u an example: When I wanted to be a DJ, Derrick May introduced me to these guys Art Payne and Keith Martin who had Technics 1200 turntables.
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"I feel like there is more need than ever for parties," said Maria Betania Chacin, the D.J., who goes by the name Mabe, from behind a set of turntables.
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On Sunday, he is joined by the pianist Marilyn Crispell; on Monday, he debuts seven pieces for sextet; on Tuesday, he adds turntables, electronics and vocals to the mix.
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Now that I can't go out to hip-hop shows in Toronto, I might mess around on digital turntables again and (hopefully) DJ some Zoom or Google Hangouts sessions.
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It's for that reason that the brand was revived by Panasonic a couple of years ago, primarily to serve as the glorious label on a new line of throwback turntables.
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Big supermarkets are extending the amount of space that they allocate to the discs and even the turntables that twirl them have found a place on Amazon's best-seller lists.
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And as that earlier mention of modularity suggests, you can actually install the new platter and motor into half-century-old Technics S-10 turntables for a very fancy upgrade.
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Highlights of the sale include a Lenovo Yoga 910 that has a glass lid, a matte black DJI Phantom 4 drone, and limited edition turntables from Shinola and Pro-Ject.
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He plays here with Matthew Stevens on guitar, Zack Lober on electric bass and turntables, Eric Doob on drums and electronics, as well as a second guitarist, Rob Ritchie. nublu.
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This guy DJ Turbo from my high school sold me a pair of Gemini belt-drive turntables; little did I know you can't do a damn thing on belt-drive decks.
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DJ Yonder (a robotic llama) was behind the turntables, kids walked around carrying plastic cups filled with branded Slurp Juice, and fans lazed around in beanbags next to supply drop crates.
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Following the introduction of new turntables from both Technics and Sony, Audio-Technica is getting into the fray with a low-cost record player that'll beam tunes to your Bluetooth speakers.
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Short at the time, he had to stand on crates just to reach the turntables, and while his stature has grown, his set lists remain influenced by late-1980s house music.
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World of Turntables calls this Marantz turntable the best one you can buy for less than $2,000, because it has a very easy-to-use design a produces excellent audio quality.
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While numerous companies were debuting new models of synths, turntables, and more, others were showing clever ways they had figured out to augment the instruments and hardware you've got at home.
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It was in the suburban hood of Sweetwater that he first touched turntables, and it's in Wynwood's exciting Arts District that he and his peers push the city's modern cultural envelope.
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Not in the "I buy two or three records a week" way, more in the "I have 13 fucked turntables piled up at my backdoor and you can't get upstairs" way.
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He spent an eye-watering amount of money on multiple Klipschorns, Mark Levinson amplifiers, Mitchell Cotter turntables, and handmade Koetsu cartridges—audiophile sound equipment that achieved the sonic purity David desired.
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After the first time I played records at the Loft, he would often ask me to co-host on the turntables, and sometimes to fill in for him in his absence.
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He wanted a way to share his multi-layered DJing approach showcased on compilation album series DE9, which used two turntables, an effects box, and a Roland TR-909 drum machine.
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For the less technically inclined, ION Audio makes several conversion turntables, including the $110 Premier LP, which connects to the computer with a USB cable and includes its own conversion software.
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The best example is probably the case of vinyl records and turntables, which have seen a resurgence of interest even among Gen-Z teens and millennials over the last several years.
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Once inside a room, the decor oozes with cool, featuring poster art of current artists on the label, turntables and a selection of vinyl records curated by the folks at Sub Pop.
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"THE Corvette was designed here," says Jacques Panis, the president of Shinola, a maker of trendy watches, bikes and turntables, at the start of a tour of the company's workshop and offices.
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Costars Deena Cortese, Angelina Pivarnick, Vinny Guadagnino and Pauly "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio were all in attendance, and DelVecchio even hit the turntables to DJ the first 2019 date of his residency.
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But with tons of cheaper secondhand versions of the older variants still available on eBay and Craigslist, why would anyone who is seriously considering buying turntables choose the newer more expensive option?
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Crosley, the company best known for making those junky $100 turntables you can find at Target or Best Buy, is expanding into a different era of musical nostalgia: cassette decks, via TechCrunch.
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If you got on the turntables and did something stupid, like a mix you didn't know how to do or you skipped the record, that's not good for that kind of party.
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In doing so, the company appears to have evolved its CES booth from the cool place with badass gadgets like cameras and TVs and Technics turntables into some sort of multimedia museum.
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Still, there's no denying the man's showmanship—dancing, singing, hopping on his turntables with gusto, now de rigeur for all EDM stars—and he's able to work a crowd like nobody's business.
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It was originally a half-million-dollar Kickstarter campaign, and Daniel Kim, the company's marketing manager, assures me that the Kickstarter backers are receiving their turntables in the post as we speak.
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Derrick Jones, also known as DJ D-Nice, has been holding gigantic virtual parties on Instagram -- live-streaming himself working turntables from his living room for audiences of more than 80,000 people.
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And the playful collaboration among Duke Ellington, Charles "Honi" Coles and Billy Strayhorn resonates decades later in a shot of Public Enemy's Terminator X at the turntables while two others look on.
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Yet, there is no denying that two turntables and a mixer are the tools of the trade, and rewinding a record manually or scratching samples lies at the core of hip-hop.
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Clement Perry, the publisher of The Stereo Times, a magazine for audiophiles, said that for some, vinyl never went away: Indeed, a number of electronics makers still manufacture turntables for hardcore music lovers.
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Flitting between two records, with different beats-per-minutes and in different keys, meant the best managed to create unique music in real time, using nothing but two turntables and a mixing desk.
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Flash tried emulating the patter of disco D.J.s, who talked while they spun, but he was too busy with the turntables, so he left a microphone for people from the crowd to talk.
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It's very sensitive stuff and to me all the high-end turntables and speakers were all really are symbolic of the whole idea of the fragile nature of relationships of life and death.
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MC Luscious' "Boom I Got Your Boyfriend" with Connie's "Rock Me." I was really into those records in my youth and I still had them them around when I started messing with turntables.
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Whether you want to start your own record collection or you're shopping for a serious music lover, Walmart has turntables and a full catalog, from classics to K-pop, to get you started.
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Elsewhere in Naples, a DJ set up turntables on his balcony and played the Frankie Valli song "Can't Take My Eyes off You" as neighbors sang and played guitar along from their windows.
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We used to charge $2-3 for the entrance, and they came in and were like, "If you don't let us in, we're going to steal your equipment," like turntables, stuff like that.
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While this is way above what other premium turntables offer, most average listeners can't really hear a significant difference in a signal-to-noise ratio beyond 60db (we'll save this debate for the audiophiles).
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Turntables, even those with five-figure prices, operate on the same basic premise: a stationary needle follows the grooves of a spinning record, translating vibrations into electrical signals, which are then translated into sound.
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Just hearing him tell his story about fixing jukeboxes is already fun, but getting to see the guts of these old music machines—the vacuum tubes, the arm, the turntables—makes it even better.
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Modern turntables work a lot like their counterparts from decades ago, according to Consumer Reports, although some models include newer technology like USB ports, allowing you to convert your vinyl music to digital music.
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They will work on existing turntables, and can be used with ordinary styluses (though certainly, how much better the experience is would also depend on the quality of the equipment used to play it).
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Follow last week's news that turntables were Amazon's highest selling audio product this Christmas and September's revelation that vinyl sales are outperforming streaming services, still more data on the medium's resurgence is pouring forth.
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Every element of the festival—down to the ink used for the literature, the paint used for the signage, and even moving turntables from one stage to another—required government approval of some sort.
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They're one of the best bands in a world where all the people who would ostensibly be in the best bands sold their guitars to buy turntables and then a new copy of Ableton.
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Designed for both vinyl turntables and CDJs, with even room for a mixer, the Selector's cabinet comes with modular wooden shelves that can be removed from a minimal metal frame, making it easily transportable.
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When turntables were ubiquitous in family homes, flexis were often attached to the spines of magazines by a perforated edge, mailed out as postcards, and even ripped off of the back of cereal boxes.
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This is powered by a belt drive, includes a built-in preamp, and can play 78s, while most belt-driven turntables (including all the others on this list) can only handle 33s and 45s.
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Céline turned the traditional runway show on its head — and around: Guests sat on bleachers that spun in circles, as though situated atop giant turntables, as models walked around them in a chaotic sequence.
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Vinyl is seeing a resurgence all over the place, and if you're curious about which of the many turntables available are the best to start your budding collection with, we have a pick for you.
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Over the last few years, the producer has set about making this version of electronic music with the saturation turned all the way up, and the pitch slider ripped all the way off the turntables.
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Vestax, the company behind some of the more original turntables to emerge in the late 90s and early aughts, went bankrupt in 2014 following a long decline after the departure of its founder Hidesato Shiino.
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Another Mancuso disciple to join the effort was Colleen Murphy, an American D.J. who regularly played at the Loft before moving to England, where she is now a familiar face behind the Lucky Cloud turntables.
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DJs are scheduled to come on every two hours (although Rush Hour Records cofounder Antal recently commandeered the turntables for five hours in what Vaxelaire considers one of the station's most memorable performances so far).
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We got the cake-throwing disc jockey Monday in Bev Hills and asked if other women -- besides Paris Hilton -- were getting a fair shot on the turntables, and Steve tells us straight-up ... they're not.
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The installation's focal point is 25 turntables mounted on pedestals, each with a record that plays a variety of audio documentation about the violent deaths of Black men and women at the hands of police officers.
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Dropping beats, not bombs Jihad Samhat's second act after 15 years of clearing mines for the UN Mine Action Service puts him behind the turntables, dropping beats across the Lebanese capital and promoting local musical talent.
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They hired one of People's "most beautiful people" of 463, the pop songwriter Burt Bacharach, as co-musical director, and for the first time in Oscars history, a D.J. and turntables appeared in the orchestra pit.
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While the company now makes an array of beautiful turntables meant for hi-fi listening and home use, it arguably stopped catering to the DJ market when parent company Panasonic halted production of SL-1200s in 2010.
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Friends of Holodeck typically helm turntables or CDJs alongside live hardware sets from the likes of Cameron or Bill Converse, whose acid-tinged Meditations/Industry garnered international acclaim when it came out on Dark Entries in 2016.
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Audio Advice says this turntable delivers a greater audio quality than other turntables in its price range, especially in terms of any distortion you'll receive, although it does lag behind high-end models in delivering bass sounds.
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In particular I have an aesthetic soft spot for the cheaper Pro-Ject turntables, but you'll get more bang for your buck from the step-up model of the cheap AT table above, the Audio-Technica LP120.
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Vinyl record sales have been booming lately, so it's not at all surprising that Technics is capitalizing on the SL-1200's mystique here — we're actually expecting to see a few high-end turntables at CES 2016.
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We're told LeBron was put at the helm of the turntables and DJ'd for 2 hours straight -- all while sporting a red hat that said ... "Strive for Greatness" ... which looks an awful lot like Trump's "MAGA" hat.
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McIntosh is essentially the Rolls Royce of the audio world, and that's another reason why we like this deck: It's actually great value from the company, which makes standalone amps and turntables that cost much much more.
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Turntables are cheap and easy to get hold of (a Crosley costs less than $100 on Amazon) and so furnish baby boomers with a good excuse to dust off what remains of their collection, and expand it further.
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There are connected light switches, refrigerators, bathroom mirrors, mattress pads, meat thermometers, pet food bowls, toothbrushes, hairbrushes, skin scanners, sports goggles, turntables, diapers, shoes, so many put-this-thing-on-your-body-and-send-us-the-data wearables.
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Now we'll be able to let the last artist play longer if he or she wants, or ask another artist to take the turntables back at 7AM—or even book a surprise guest especially for the after hours.
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The 129 guest rooms reflect the brand's Americana aesthetic, outfitted with Shinola clocks and turntables (a nod to Detroit's music heritage), striped alpaca blankets, leather throw pillows, custom-made candles and bathroom fixtures that resemble watch case backs.
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The experience of moving up the ramp, listening to the music, and looking at these images morphed into a 21st-century version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, albeit with turntables and drums substituting for strings and oboes.
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I associate this sound with abrupt career shifts and attempts at cathartic renewal — Bowie moving from LA to Berlin, purging the drugs from his system, and embracing cold electronic European modernism; U2 selling their guitars and buying turntables.
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The turntables below are best suited for those new to playing vinyl, but they aren't necessarily "entry level" because even the least expensive of the lot contains quality parts and will last for some time with regular care.
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If he's good enough for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to ask him to spin on their big day, we have to imagine he hopped on the turntables at some point over the course of his three-day wedding.
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The legendary lyricist Rakim and a slew of local rap groups active from the 1980s to the early 2000s — the Lox, E.P.M.D., Black Moon and Brand Nubian — will be sharing the turntables and microphones at this old-school affair.
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Pioneer gear is largely considered a standard in clubs and at festivals for DJs, and this controller, while not as expansive as others on the market, helps close the loop on Pioneer / Rekordbox performances with turntables, multi-players, and other devices.
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Although most buyers and reviewers rate the Sony turntable favorably, Wired says the overall design of the Sony PS-HX500 doesn't justify its price tag, as it doesn't offer enough high-end components versus other USB turntables in its price range.
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One of the more creative offerings comes courtesy of Nova Scotian DJ and producer Skratch Bastid, who uploaded a video yesterday of him performing a routine on turntables featuring Bowie's 1983 hit "Let's Dance" (co-written by Chic's Nile Rodgers).
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It was only with the fifth, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", (173) that millions of teenagers in semi-detached houses just like the one back in Bromley took him to their hearts and turntables.
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The starlet was back to doing what she does best this weekend in Miami -- being the life of a party as she DJ'd a set at Wall Lounge, where she was on the turntables for a majority of the night.
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A pioneering rapper, Grandmaster Flash (also a character), and Nelson George, a journalist covering African-American culture in the 1970s, were consultants, and the cast were taught on set to breakdance and mix on turntables as they did in the 1970s.
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With producer Mark Ronson at the turntables behind him, Bruno Mars put a little bit more sex into the show with his performance of his funk-inspired hit, reminding us — in case we've forgotten — that he's got moves for days.
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That was the case yesterday, when Technics' parent company Panasonic announced that buyers had swept up every single one of the 300 SL-1200GAE turntables—a remodeled edition of the iconic SL-1200 model—released in its Japanese domestic run.
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At around 7:45 in the clip, Bolt swiftly runs into the booth at 4:09 AM to hop on the mic and hype the crowd, before, of course, taking to some Serato turntables to not only mix, but scratch.
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With HMV selling one turntable a minute this Christmas, Amazon reporting that turntables were its highest-selling product of the season, and Discogs exceeding $43 million in sales, there may be no better time for Technics to jack their price point.
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Chunks of Montauk driftwood frame Chacona's D.J. turntables, which sit atop a spearmint-colored 1970s credenza, and there's a Harvey Guzzini accordion lamp in the dining area that looks like the hull of a ship Frank Gehry might have designed.
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Davis and Prestige agree that Pro-Ject turntables are known for their minimalist build, streamlined look, and high-quality materials like a cartridge made by Ortofon, a company that Steinberg says "has a long history" of producing audiophile-approved components.
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Gomelsky is the brainchild of Tom Kartsotis, founder of Shinola, the 3-year-old Detroit-based lifestyle brand best known for making wristwatches, bicycles, leather goods and, as of this fall, high-end turntables imbued with an all-American style.
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In reporting this book, Mr. Sax says he found that it was less a case of older generations reaching back to familiar formats from their youth than teenagers and 20-somethings discovering turntables and LPs, paperback novels and film cameras.
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I join the co-founder/director of Artmossphere at Gorky Park, the Central Park of Moscow, where the organization had temporary walls set up for local artists to paint, as well as turntables and a platform for a break-dance competition.
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After spending 20 minutes fumbling with the controls on the station's vintage soundboard, muscle memory kicked in and I started switching between playing tracks on the station's turntables and CD changers like the seasoned pro—or, rather, enthusiastic amateur—I once was.
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Amidst the geekery, something strange happened: a fully uniformed NYPD officer performed an impromptu scratch routine on a pair of turntables while a crowd of onlookers videotaped the whole routine of their phones, some footage of which ended up on Reddit today.
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At a first glimpse, his painting Oracle—a collaboration with fellow artist Ben Ridgway—looks like an array of DJ equipment on acid, but its perfect symmetry, exotic colors, and strange central membrane allude to some kind of otherworldly being, rather than turntables.
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And even though the actual 1's and 2's — a universal nickname for turntables — are quickly becoming a thing of the past thanks to DJs' ability to find their tracks on MacBooks, setting the mood for an amazing party still requires skill.
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They were all initiates, none more obviously than the young woman in a head wrap and bejewelled sunglasses who planted herself onstage, in front of the turntables, and sat cross-legged throughout the set, acting as a combination cheerleader and spiritual guardian.
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When we chatted with the experts on the best turntables for people new to the world of playing records, each had their own favorites, but they all advised avoiding one very popular, all-in-one record player that comes in a suitcase.
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Unlike turntables with a "belt drive" (a motor powered by replaceable belts that wear down with use and may need to be swapped depending on the type of record you play), a direct drive will rarely, if ever, need service, explains Prestige.
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With Rare Chandeliers producer (and sometime Eminem tour DJ) Alchemist behind the turntables, Action kicked a crazy freestyle followed by more bars from Queens brawler Meyhem Lauren (whose "The cloth that I'm cut from is kinte" line rightfully sent the room into chaos).
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Even so, management is already preparing to unveil Shinola, Part II. This fall, the company will introduce an audio line of turntables, speakers and, most important, audiophile-quality headphones, rendered in leather and brushed stainless steel, which it intends to sell for $450 to $650.
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In addition to wandering the virtual desert and socializing, you can also dive behind the turntables and craft tracks with a surprisingly finessed VR DJ setup, spinning tracks while also doing things that just aren't possible in the real world thanks to pesky gravity.
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We did a night at the shop where Rok Riley, who is a legendary presenter on Perth's community radio station RTRFM and a beloved party DJ, helped guide a group of women around two turntables, and practice with all the records in the shop.
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Recent years have seen the company returning to turntables in a big way, thanks in no small part to the success of its Cruiser line of briefcase record players, infiltrating apartments and dorm rooms alike by way of the friendly neighborhood trendsetters at Urban Outfitters.
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James Murphy's now-iconic "I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables" line on "Losing My Edge" doesn't quite capture Malkmus' new direction on his electronic and experimental solo LP Groove Denied, which is out on Matador in March.
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Known among the analog cognoscenti simply as OMA, this boutique company manufactures the kind of rarefied components that audiophiles drool over: 7-foot-tall loudspeakers with conical horns, glowing tube amps nestled in walnut chassis, and turntables with slate plinths as thick as phone books.
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But I knew that Moss—a Chicago native who discovered the city's nightlife at age 290, became heavily involved in its 290s rave scene, and even traded his TV for a pair of turntables touched by Ron Hardy—would have something interesting to say.
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Like its creator, the show is varied in its artistic disciplines: There's jewelry and chairs and luggage and dresses and turntables and a five-foot plexiglass recreation of the rapper's 2013 "Yeezus" album cover that Mr. Abloh designed while serving as Mr. West's creative director.
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The irony is that electronic music has always been scorned, with naysayers claiming it's not a real form of music, simply because it's made from synths or because turntables are not "instruments"...A turntable is an instrument, it's just a different kind of instrument.
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Maybe that's why we spent so much of the show talking about turntables and headphones and Super 8 cameras: we're bringing back tech that doesn't demand we fall even deeper into our phones, or invest in potential futures that just seem a bit incomplete right now.
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They're weird to file in collections, they're a pain in the ass to listen to (some turntables don't even play them because the needle snaps back before you can set it down on the grooves), and they don't offer much of a songs-per-dollar payoff.
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Set in the neighborhood of Shibuya, the Toshihiko Morosawa-directed video begins with Krush setting up his analog turntables and laptop in the quiet calm of midnight, measuring the acoustics of the space and preparing his equipment so that his set can be perfectly timed with daybreak.
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The airy redesign, featuring exposed rafters, oiled white oak ceilings, turntables instead of TVs, and vintage furniture from France, was the concept of the modish, New York-based studio of Robert McKinley, whose other laurels include The Surf Lodge in Montauk and The Hall in Miami.
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In Cooke's own "3D Turntables: Remixing Hip-Hop Architectural Technology," (2017) Cooke and a team of his students took scale models of houses in Syracuse that are scheduled for demolition, and used 3D printers and laser cutters to deconstruct, reassemble and reimagine them instead of destroying them.
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The doodle celebrates the 44th anniversary of what may be the world's most famous block party — the 1973 back-to-school party in the Bronx where DJ Kool Herc began using records on two different turntables to combine and extend the instrumental breaks in the music he was playing.
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It also comes ready to use with rekordbox dvs, a version of rekordbox dj that allows you to DJ with control vinyl, but you'll have to purchase the Plus Pack license key and control vinyl yourself in order to take advantage of it (and, you know, have turntables).
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Littered around him are his record collection, a pair of turntables connected to a dazzling tube amplifier and E&S rotary mixer (complete with the label's iconic smiling sun sticker on its wooden side), and new hi-fi speaker system he recently drove to Upstate, NY to buy.
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Sources tell us that PD -- who, if you've forgotten, is a world-renowned DJ -- has struck a deal with Caesars Entertainment to continue his residency at The Pool After Dark at Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City ... where he's been behind the turntables since first signing with them in 2012.
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The return of New Jersey-born hip-hop trio Dälek has been a long time coming, and it's fitting that MC Dälek and his two new collaborators (DJ rEK on turntables and co-producer Mike Manteca) have resurfaced on one of the most forward-thinking labels in the game: Profound Lore.
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After taking a nearly ten-minute break to introduce his family and friends to the assembled crowd at Manhattan's mammoth Beacon Theater, and trying to take the perfect crowd selfie in order to "remember this night for the rest of [his] life," Steve Aoki resumes his position behind his turntables.
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It's so easy to be seduced by the turntables and all of the things that go with that which is why I think that it took a lot for David to feel comfortable and trusting of someone in that role, because of how easily people could be seduced by it.
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"I'm the same guy when I'm in the studio as I am at the turntables, so similar patterns are running in my brain," he says over Skype from his office at Kompakt HQ. One reason & breathes so easily is that, true to form, he brings in a bevy of collaborators.
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And though none of the rest of these acts achieved the generation-defining, festival-headlining stature of LCD Soundsystem, there's still a handful that we'd also like to reunite, if only to revisit a time in the early years of the new millennium when everyone was selling their guitars for turntables.
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There are T-shirts, hats, posters, tapestries, skateboard decks, headphones, speakers, turntables, bags, watches, pipes, lighters, ashtrays, key chains, backpacks, scented candles, room mist, soap, hand cream, lip balm, body wash, coffee, dietary-supplement drinks, and cannabis (whole flower, as well as oil) that bear some official relationship with the Marley estate.
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On a sparse set—two turntables, a few chairs, some cups and a kettle atop a metallic counter—the actor Eric Berryman addresses the audience in an earnest, formal voice, explaining how he came to love and want to adapt for the stage an LP of blues, work songs, stories, and sermons.
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Brothers Ed and Tom Russell (Tessela and Truss) announced they would be relaunching their Poly Kicks label with a release from visual artist Haroon Mirza and, in this case, even more intriguing than the music is the fascinating way in which the beats have been constructed, using turntables, glass, cardboard and other household objects.
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Pros: Delivers the ability to rip vinyl music to a digital format, outperforms many other USB-enabled turntables, produces good audio quality on the turntable, stylish design and look Cons: High price tag for an entry-level turntable, doesn't have high-end components Buy the Sony PS-HX500 USB Turntable on Amazon for $498
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Rachel Hauck's scenic design loosely suggests a New Orleans bar for the part of the show that takes place above ground, but her whirling pendulum-swinging lamps and spinning turntables can just as easily create a sense of overwhelming oppression and claustrophobia, like being stuck in a factory or a mine — or in hell.
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Pros: Outperforms other low-priced turntables for audio quality, works with existing wireless speakers you may already own over a Bluetooth connection, fun for starting out with playing vinyl Cons: Audio quality doesn't match pricier units, making Bluetooth connection can be tricky Buy the Audio-Technica AT-LP60 Bluetooth Turntable on Amazon for $179
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Then bringing an acetate of it there and seeing it happen; such mind-blowing togetherness of spirit, so many treasured memories of magical moments in time, including those we shared together behind those turntables—like when he's suddenly turn around and would tell to me to throw the next record on, only to reappear half an hour later.
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The passing of Glenn Frey reminds us all too well of the kids we were in the '70s -- our blue jeans and black boots, our long hair and 'stashes and crushes on impossibly beautiful, unattainable girls, our nights spent cross-legged in front of turntables listening with great intent to the latest album of one of our heroes.
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It refuses to be pessimistic, and it's cast with vibrant young actors like Justice Smith and Herizen Guardiola, whose performances each contain a full day's supply of vitamin C. Like "Stranger Things," with its brick-size walkie-talkies, "The Get Down" fetishizes predigital technology (here, turntables and crayon-marked LPs) as a means of liberating ingenious kids.
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Back at Jack Shainman, in Gordon Parks's photograph, "Invisible Man Retreat, Harlem, New York" (1952), a man sits in the center of a room, its walls decorated with lightbulbs in a mosaic pattern; in between two record turntables that seem to float, he sits with his legs crossed and, upon first glance, appears to be floating himself.
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There was an incorporation of traditional C'han (Zen) Buddhism, and with it a disavowal of ordinary logic and close parallels to Dada through the work of the Xiamen Dadaists and Huang Young Ping, whose piece "Six Small Turntables" uses the alignment of six turntable orbs to randomly determine the color, canvas, and brushstrokes of an anticipated artwork.
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Audio-Technica AT-LP3 Fully Automatic Belt-Drive Stereo Turntable Pro-Ject Audio Systems Essential III Turntable Pro-Ject "pretty much only makes turntables," says Steinberg, who notes that many of its models are priced "in the thousands," making something like this a great choice for someone who wants to dip their toes into the higher-end market.
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With a great deal of concentration, a DJ could return a record to the beginning of a break by looking at that mark, manually spinning the record backwards the right number of rotations, and then switching that turntable back on to play for the crowd, essentially flying blind and trusting that his eyes and muscles could keep two turntables alternating in time.
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Some notable artists present were DMC from Run DMC, a self-described comic nerd who — fun fact — sold part of his childhood comic book collection to buy his first turntables; Guy Sims, writer of the very popular series BrotherMan; and Paris Cullins, renowned artist and writer for Marvel and DC. There were also many interesting independent artists with their wares on display, selling everything from t-shirts to buttons to posters.
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There are and have been other baseball players who make music—on organ, on Cerrato turntables—but many of these fall at various closely bunched points on a spectrum that runs roughly from Barry Zito composing mellow devotional music to Bronson Arroyo engaging in some lite Scott Weiland LARPing; per company policy, I'm not going to talk about Scott Spiezio's work with Sandfrog and would appreciate you never asking me about it again.
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Last week, before a long weekend of Halloween parties and two hours of a hazy slumber tore through whatever soul I managed to have left, I assembled a last-minute costume guide for dressing like your favorite DJ to help stop the scourge of a dusty, one-eyed Freddy Krueger masks and slutty cat costume that have plagued this holiday every year since the debate between vinyl and MP3 began many, many turntables ago.
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A group of two dozen or so young men from Le Bourget-du-Lac and Chambéry, a nearby city, set up turntables and speakers in a clearing that featured a heterogeneous array of objects reminiscent of an American fraternity house: a barbecue grill, a hookah, a sombrero, a flat-screen television balanced on an old wooden desk, two refrigerators filled with beer, a hammock, a shopping cart, a coffee maker, many pairs of flip-flops and assorted costumes.
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Now all those kids that really fell in love with the franchise originally and maybe have not really followed through with it as they grew up, are now in their 20s and 30s and have the disposable income, and maybe the ability to take some time to walk outside and go do that, while all the sort of younger generations below them have seen this sort of appropriation of stuff from that era like turntables and there's ... KS: We're gonna get to listener questions, but is it men?
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