“If you’re not doing it to be the best you can be, what are we doing here?” Those words may have come from the mouth of Kendrick Lamar, but they speak a mantra which encompasses DJ Craze’s entire ...

Canadian DJ and producer Eric San, aka Kid Koala, is unbound by the structures typical of someone who operates with a couple turntables and a mixer. He’s made a name for himself as a master ...

Philip Jeck—the British experimental composer, turntablist, and multimedia artist—has died. Jon Wozencroft and Mike Harding from Touch confirmed the news in a statement published on Jeck’s website, ...

Hip-Hop turntablist Rob Swift is making good on his vow to give back to the art of DJ ing with his upcoming DVD, As the Technics Spin. The DVD, which was directed by Eljay Williams, offers a glimpse ...

"Dude, you gotta check this kid out. It's gonna blow your mind." It was freshman year of college. We were in the early throes of what would turn into a lifelong turntablism obsession, and my best ...

DJ Babu, a pioneering figure in the world of DJing and hip-hop culture, will join the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University with this fall's launch of the conservatory's ...

This relatively new musical tradition of turntablism has a fascinating and rich history which is only about 40 years old. To my mind it’s one of the most unique and interesting instruments to emerge ...

Artists have been using—and misusing—the turntable as a musical instrument for decades, but no one played it quite like Philip Jeck. He employed a battery of vintage monophonic record players to ...

In the early days of Incubus, turntablist Chris Kilmore remembers a lot of nonstop action. “We took four weeks to write Make Yourself and four weeks to record it. And then, we were back out on the ...