DJ Chi bobs his head to the hip-hop rhythm, one hand skipping over the vinyl record, the other on the mixer. Possum, Raydar, Moses and the other DJs in the room listen to his beat. This is a ...
Turntables are enjoying a major revival right now. Vinyl is on the up, has been for years, and I don't see any signs of it ...
Call me DJ Jazzy Jenn. Sure, I’m a 32-year-old white girl with helmet hair from riding my bicycle to the Old Town School of Folk Music. But it doesn’t take me long to figure out that being a good ...
Turntables just spin records; how can they possibly have a sound? They do. No wonder high-end turntables sound vastly better than budget models. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has ...
NEW YORK -- Cecilia Chien stands at her instrument. It's a turntable. It doesn't just play music; it creates music, or so the philosophy of turntablism says. "Feelin' Freaky," by Nick Cannon and B2K, ...
If you’d told me not so long ago that I could have a touch screen device in my pocket quick enough to allow me to manipulate audio by scratching with a virtual turntable, I’d have told you to get out ...
My dad never understood how I broke his turntable attempting to mimic parts of “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5. The 1981 song was ...
Still have room for another game controller amidst your piles of plastic guitars? The upcoming game Scratch: The Ultimate DJ features a turntable-style controller, giving hip hop fans and budding DJs ...
I like to have things. Things that are tangible. Some call that collecting. I call it having things. So it was only a matter of time until I got into vinyls—collecting my favorite albums, and picking ...
There is no way you’ll find this feline DJing with a laptop! Cat Scratch is made from recycled cardboard, costs $34.99, and features a posable tonearm and a pitch control slider that moves from ...
If there's one thing rock and metal fans can say about Rage Against the Machine / Audioslave / Street Sweeper Social Club guitarist Tom Morello, it's that he has a signature, iconic style that's ...