THE REAL INSTRUMENT: CODE OF THE TECHNICS MK SERIES TURNTABLES
"THE REAL INSTRUMENT: CODE OF THE TECHNICS MK SERIES TURNTABLES" Or THE Wrecked Machine
A Short Film
Director Jimmy Howe
The beginning and the end of the Technics SL-1200MK series, the code that mapped turntables’ history in the last half of the 20th Century,
I would like to be able to begin with the history of the most influential instrument of the last half of the 20th century. The turntable that have been a history of the most heretic instrument of all time in the DJ culture.
The device has been out of production since 2010. This is an instrument of two and a half decade of influence surmount DJ and turntablist. This is an extra-ordinary period for the rise of the DJ culture. In summary to date, this instrument is the equipment as we know, the Technics brand. And to show that having the 1200 MKII to became the only instrument for choice to performing out of this very creative and rationalé playback device, as DJ who master the skill of their art form for mixing could find their profession to control the sound of the records for new established style unique, that is, as a new identity amount producer and instrumentalist DJ’s experience. Before we relying on the DJ’s selection of tunes, the culture of the Technics SP-1200 MKII had to be the one for any professional DJ/turtablist…, to arrive at the turning point of a artifact of style on music culture, beginning in the lower east side of Manhattan.
When one single reason to believe that the turn of the century we already have seen the rising of a culture so different from all the history of music and performances from classical sound is in to modern beat stream and rock n roll. There are an absolute parallel in the universe on migration and music. Alone in the United States or Americas, even before the creation of the United State of America, the music revolution have already had a head start from a far away place. I would say that there are obviously some conjection with the development of the phonograph and a new history of sound recording as in printing. If we move along the time line between time and place or between the two world war we will arrive then at the 50's 60's or the post war period. A new idea is institutionalizing human technology incorporated inside the fabric of every single message an medium on the invention to communicated by the urban form. through out the continents. What this is telling us is the formalization for communication in the culture is becoming faster quicker and closer. Music and urban festives will be moreless something worthy to celebrate especially after the large scale warfare and the boom in technology have given us a lot of new skillset to be used in everyday of mechanics to fill up life after wars. If we yet again to move forwards 30 years the 1990 is a moment where everything and everyone would collide into the time for a new tool, new matters in research in the new urban style.
A movement is…
Technics was introduced as the de-facto instrument of choice, there are many companies and manufacturer out there that could not understand why there is little competition otherwise, that all those professional turntablists have to convert to SP-1200. At the moment the story has to be represent by DJ and without SP-1200, the last place to find live mixing of music will not be a reality, and then for the last two, three decades in music instrumentals or the New York lounge scene for DJ could make the argument for the near mass success of hip hop artists like Run-DMC and Public Enemy in a different world likewise, a restaurant in Soho, the Lucky Strike will otherwise become known for only eating, and elsewhere like in cities of Detroit in the midwest, further to London, and down to Colonge, Berlin in Germany, much more can be said, although research in the transmigration on sound, there is an interesting inception of a route in North America’s DJ history wherever you end up going, there are bases of a geographic shift of a part in the center of North America that have a lot to say about making music in transit, and after all is all about the biz.
The complete essay can be downloaded in the links below
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