Here, though, they aspire to be only transparent conduits for the voices from the album, which is vinyl and is played as they speak on a turntable by a disc jockey, Max Bernstein.
Direct drive turntables are preferred by disc jockeys (DJs).
Mr. Young put the damaged discs on a turntable in the studio and while continually dousing the discs with water, let the phonograph needle run through the delicate grooves and pull the old music off, so it could be recorded digitally — essentially extracting one last play from these one-of-a-kind crumbling discs.
Teenagers bought Technics turntables and dreamed of becoming disc jockeys in Ibiza.
Tonight he will be among the disc jockeys at Turntables on the Hudson, along with a kindred spirit from India: Guarav, who is one-half of the Midival Punditz, a pair of disc jockeys and producers from New Delhi.
With one of the discs on the turntable, the needle touched down and crackled before a soaring baritone rang from the speakers.
I popped Martin Sexton's disc onto the digital turntable spinning inside my laptop and settled in to listen and marvel a little bit over a "certain generation" who will never know what it is to bare your soul in the magnetic spools of a mixtape.
ON a hot summer night in 1971, Dennis Elsas put a Eric Clapton record on a turntable and began his 27-year-long stretch as a radio disc jockey at WNEW-FM in Manhattan, which earned him legions of devoted listeners.
It must get lonely for a disc jockeys, barricaded behind turntables and mixers with nothing but the history of recorded music for company.
Most exhibits are temporary, but Marcel Duchamp's collection of optical illusion discs rotating on a turntable is a mesmerizing staple.
The disc lies on a nearby turntable.
