My new album is the dusted-off sound of the 90s dinner table turntable; where sax-blown, marimba-riddled rock was as essential as the Marie Rose dressing on one's prawns and the opening strains of the Baywatch theme seeping through from the TV next door.
You just had an epic trading party and the disco, turntable, and feast table is hanging out.
Set the turntables on a table or surface.
The scene: Having prerecorded a variety of voices chanting "om," Perry -- who has written hit songs for Christina Aguilera, Pink, Gwen Stefani, Adam Lambert, Celine Dion and others -- started the party by instructing guests to drop the needle onto the turntable centerpieces on their tables and listen to the sounds.
Turntables and Yield Tables On Sept. 11, 1999, according to a trippy-looking flier that Sam and Marcel Birnbaum have saved, there was a rave in Johnson City, Tenn., and DJ Samsson was on the bill.
Two years later, DJ Samsson, also known as Josh Birnbaum, 24 and straight out of Columbia University, had set aside his turntables for yield tables, at least for the day, and was at his job at Cantor Fitzgerald as an assistant bond trader.
Turntable had offers on the table for twice as much money, but they really wanted Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures to lead the round.
But when Orlandersmith enters and steps up to the on-stage riser where two chairs and a table holding a turntable have been placed, she lights what's undoubtedly meant to be a memorial candle and begins to talk.
Outside, a family plays pétanque on the driveway; inside, groups of friends and couples sit on Thonet chairs at candlelit cast-iron-and-marble cafe tables, as a turntable, manned by the owner, Pierre Pelegrin, plays old jazz and reggae tunes.
Finally, at age 16, shortly after moving to California, Nick got enough money together to buy his own turntables--Technics 1200, "the only turntables a deejay can use". Each table cost him $300; the needles ran $60 each.
