Starting the week is a short film. In conjunction with Raiden Fader, the good people over at portabist.com have made a video that goes some way to explaining why portablism has become popular.
HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED
It’s an interesting contrast to hear the comment about recommending a portable scratch setup as a good place to learn scratching. There was a time when the stock advice was to save up and buy the very best gear around — usually Technics and a Rane. So it makes me happy to see that turntablists now find it acceptable to lower the bar for entry, and let people learn the basics of scratching without selling body parts just to find out that turntablism isn’t for them after all.
And let’s not forget, portablism is just fun too.
Big thanks to Paul Skratch and portabist.com for the shout out at the end of the video too. :)
great! anyone has a strict date when will the Numark PT01 Scratch be available for sale in EU or worldwide??
Should be available before the month is out
the best part of this is independence, no wacky laptop needed
$20 for some 7 inch records? Where are they shopping for records?
As you know rare records might cost too much.
since nobody mentioned it yet, I´ll be the spelling/gramar nazi: the link to the portablist site misses a letter and is leading to an error page… other than that I´m looking forward to test a portable setup myself although I´m already annoyed by the prices for portable faders and especially turntables.
“Vestax is out of business and people would like to buy a 10 year old gimmicky portable turntable? Cool, let´s boost the prices for no reason”. I hope there will be another portable turntable because I don´t trust Numark quality one bit since I´m sitting on 4 broken TTX´s.