'We had a turntable hooked up to play music, if necessary,' Reilly said".
Records spin on a turntable set up near the front door, from a library put together by the owners.
Upstairs, a D.J. was spinning the White Stripes on a turntable set up in a former sushi bar.
When not cultivating world artists at Joe's Pub, Mr. Bragin can often be found bent over a CD turntable, cuing up techno-samba-break beat mixes for multiethnic hipsters at NuBlu, an East Village club where he moonlights as part of Globesonic, a New York-based D.J. collective.
UNLIKE most hip-hop acts of the 1980's, De La Soul didn't hone its skills at block parties on the streets of New York City or Los Angeles; its members practiced on turntables set up in their suburban Long Island bedrooms.
Using the same two turntable set-up of disco DJs, Campbell used two copies of the same record to elongate the break.
The beatbox itself however, a drum machine which Flash had added to his turntable set-up some time earlier, was absent on the record, the drums being produced by a live drummer.
He's joined onstage by Neil V and Bill Stacy, and together, the three DJs pump irreverent acid techno and hardcore to a crowd hovering over their insane triple turntable set-up to watch them work.
The South Park Coalition (SPC) is a group of artists some 100-strong who come together every September around founder K-Rino's birthday, for a Saturday night club show and then the park on Sunday afternoon, with turntables set up right next to the basketball court.
The ritual of placing an LP on a turntable and cranking up a hi-fi home stereo disappeared — when?
