Bentley’s Discotheque New York (Closed)
Bentley’s Discotheque – Now you have your cake and eat it too. Bentley’s Discotheque, located at 25 E 40Th St, is a hybrid of both trendy-club and swank-lounge. Get there early and stay late; it’s…
Month: September 2017
Paradise Garage
The Paradise Garage, also known as “the Garage”[1][2] or the “Gay-rage”,[3][4][5] was a discotheque in New York City notable in the history of modern dance and pop music, as well as LGBT and nightclub cultures.[6][7][8]…
Scratching 101
Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique used to produce distinctive percussive or rhythmic sounds and sound effects by moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable while…
Beatmatching 101
Beatmatching or pitch cue is a disc jockey technique of pitch shifting or timestretching an upcoming track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track, and to adjust them such that the…
The Compact Cassette 101
The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. It was released by Philips…
Gramophone Record Or Vinyl 101
“Phonograph record” redirects here. For the magazine, see Phonograph Record (magazine). A common 12 inch LP vinyl record. A gramophone record (phonograph record in the US), commonly known as a vinyl record or simply vinyl…
What Is A Disc Jockey or Dee Jay
A disc jockey (DJ) is a person who mixes different sources of pre-existing recorded music as it is playing, usually for a live audience in a nightclub or dance club or via broadcasting. A DJ…
Tiptoeing (and Tweeting) Through the Tulips With DJ Khaled
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — On the first day of summer, two days before the release of his new album, “Grateful,” the hip-hop producer DJ Khaled was sitting in a powder room in his mansion here:…
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How to become a DJ
What does a DJ do? Disc jockeys (DJs) present, mix and link recorded music for a live or radio audience. They use a wide variety of equipment varying in sophistication including turntables and mixers; tape…