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The Wire Episode 7: The Wheels of Steel

Series: The Wire
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Length: 00:52:55

Examines the use of the turntable in contemporary music. Read the full description.
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A century of tinkering with speeds, mechanisms and materials changed the gramophone incrementally into the turntable. But over the last fifty years - from the early experiments of composer John Cage to the scratching innovations of today's superstar DJs - the turntable has become the nexus for whole new ways of thinking about music. The turntable is explained by the turntablists: musicians who play a turntable like a pianist plays a piano.

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