Archive | January, 2012

awesome tapes from africa interview

Awesome Tapes From Africa makes a special appearance on TTL Radio with the sounds of rare and obscure African cassettes mixed all the way live on two tape decks! subscribe to podcast on itunes Check out his first official release, Na Hawa Doumbia’s La Grande Cantatrice Mailenne Vol.3 CD. We’ll have limited edition tapes available [...]

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NAMM 2012 Round-Up Part 3 – Korg, Vestax, AIAIAI, Serato

Vestax offers their first true high-end DJ controller with the VCI-400. It’s designed to work with any DJ software and you got to love those chunky rotary knobs for that old school mixer feel. Korg introduced the Kaossilator 2 and the Kaoss Pad 2. Korg keeps pushing the idea of portable instruments, basing the design [...]

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Designer 212

Renowned man of class Derek Blasberg captured a live performance of Azealia Banks performing ’212′ at Karl Lagerfeld’s Paris estate to celebrate Karl’s new line with Net-a-Porte. killin it Az

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top 2011 – austin

shipset.2 austin, imported from the emerald triangle… top 3 albums or tracks 1) Silk Flowers – Ltd. Form 2) Kuedo – Severant 3) Drake – Take Care top 3 food 1) Discovering Bushwick Tacquerias, of note “Tres Hermanos” 2) Always California Tacquerias 3) First Bone Marrow, at Diner, Williamsburg top thing that happened in the [...]

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Can’t stand Barca….

…. but hard to not post this sillyness from Dani Alves from yesterday’s crushing Classico. What does it feel like to score a goal like this? Why doesnt the entire stadium just storm the pitch like it was an And 1 game? This is why euros are The Gay (no offense to gays, obv.). Cant [...]

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top 2011 – neil nice

neil nice… top 3 albums or tracks 1.) Maceo Plex “Stay High Baby” 2.) Oliver “I Need You” 3.) Nas “Nasty” top 3 food 1.) Miss Lily’s http://misslilysnyc.com/ (The coolest new authentic Jamaican eatery in the West Vill with some truly wicked classic record covers on the walls!) 2.) Mangiami (Moderately priced authentic Italian and [...]

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NAMM 2012 Round-Up Part 2 – Rane Sixty-One + Sixty-Two Mixer

When it comes to unexpected product launches, Rane is the Apple of the MI world. Rane revealed two high end mixers to be positioned around the TTM-57. Still on the higher-end of the price scale (somewhere around the $1200.00 range), the Sixty-One is a mixer for those DJs who want less controls on their mixer, [...]

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Turntable Lab Mailing List 2.0

We’re revamping our email newsletter soon… if you want to continue to receive (1) email per week from the Lab, join here on our FB page ps. big lab news coming soon…

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NAMM 2012 Round-Up Part 1

here’s our first report from the annual NAMM show which specializes in the newest from the MI / Pro-Audio world. we’ll start out Akai, which introduced 3 of the show’s most impressive products. the next generation MPC, the MPC Renaissance, is a beast of a machine that is the first MPC to be really designed [...]

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Happy Birthday from the Bear

Silly all-white Jazz fans @BoyGeniusLA

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