Glitchy art pours out of vintage video gear, at new FRGTWN shop

From Frogtown Los Angeles and the eccentric Detroit Underground label comes a new store full of “Art and Technology” and “aesthetics and identities” – which, in part, translates to these amazing, glitch-tastic video art toys! Look:

Take a 3D trip into experimental turntablism with V-A-C Moscow, Shiva Feshareki

Complex music conjures up radical, fluid architectures, vivid angles – why not experience those spatial and rhythmic structures together? Here’s insight into a music video this week in which experimental turntablism and 3D graphics collide.

Peter Kirn - March 1, 2019

Reloop’s new RP-8000 MK2: instrumental pitch control, Serato integration

Like the relaunched Technics 1200, the new Reloop decks sport digitally controlled motors. But Reloop have gone somewhere very different from Technics: platters that can be controlled at a full range of pitches, and even play scales. And the RP-8000 MK2 is a MIDI controller, too, for Serato and other software.

Peter Kirn - January 10, 2019

The Technics SL-1200 is back, and this time for DJs again

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2019

From Rane and Roland, competing visions of digital DJ gear

Peter Kirn - August 16, 2017

Turn a terrible toy turntable from a supermarket into a scratch deck

Peter Kirn - February 8, 2017

Pioneer really want to sell you a turntable, with $350 PLX-500

Peter Kirn - August 5, 2016

There’s a new Technics SL-1200 coming, officially

Peter Kirn - January 5, 2016

Watch techno made entirely with physical, mechanical objects

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2015

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