Scratch, a Doug Pray directed documentary about turntablism featuring among others DJ Shadow and DJ Premier is now airing in its entirety over at Pitchfork for one week only. A must see for all turntable fans and aspiring DJs.
2009 might not have been the greatest year in music, however it was a pretty good year for turntables. Especially, when it seems that the much talked about rumor of Technics shutting down has been quashed.
Here’s a recap of some of the most exciting turntable news in a year where turntables outsold CD players 5 [...]
The guys at Teenage Engineering have designed and engineered a low-cost do-it-yourself Turntable kit made out of high density styrofoam. Yes, styrofoam like you know it from coffee cups and cushioning material in packaging…
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Iconic turntable manufacturers Technics will most likely be stopping production on their universally loved Technics 1200s and Technics 1210s.
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We have had a couple of posts about vintage turntables here earlier, ranging from beautiful classics to Soviet ones to the wonderfully weird ones. And here are some more cool-looking vintage turntables found via The Temporary Soundmuseum, who works for the preservation of the vinyl culture.
Sanyo Stereo Music Center
Wega Stereo Set by Verner Panton, 1963
Baird [...]
Prepare to be amazed! Made by korean designer Rhea Jeong the Void LP Player elevates the LP into thin air as it is playing!
“The record player uses a carrier and dock outfitted with a magnetic and auto-calibrating control system which carries the LP into thin air as it is playing music. a self-running record player [...]
A while back we featured some pretty awesome vintage portable turntables and some pretty good-looking new ones too. However, the new “Linos” portable LP player designed by Charles Pyott is about to take portable turntables to a new level.
Probably, at least partly inspired by the legendary Sound Burger, the new “Linos” looks even better, is [...]
While browsing the net this morning we came across a pretty cool DJ solution called ATTIGO TT, which is developed by Scott Hobbs, student of innovative product design at Dundee University. Scott has created a touch screen turntable that lets DJ’s loop, sample and scratch wave forms the same way as they would with regular [...]
We’re happy to announce the winners of the Vinyl is Forever competition we’ve been running in cooperation with the awesome guys over at Soundscreen Design. We asked our readers to send us an image of their analog setup and below are the three lucky winners of some really nice merch from the exclusive Vinyl is [...]
With our office located in the center of east Berlin we see the vanishing traces of DDR every day. The area has been thoroughly gentrified over the last years with buildings being renovated, fancy cafeterias opening up on every corner and the prices generally moving upwards. However, today we thought we should bring back some [...]
