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That old piece of DJ gear that you can’t live without

As DJs, we're innately connected to our DJ gear, often in an unnatural way. But is there one item that would would throw yourself under a bus to save?

Retro mixer update: Wild Style and Beat Street mixers ID’d

By today's standards, vintage mixers are featureless lumps of trash. But we're still fascinated by them and want to know all about them. We successfully tracked down one used at the end of Hip Hop classic "Wild Style", and now we've managed to fulfil a couple of DJWORX community member's requests. Behold, the mixer used by Grandmaster Flash in the classic kitchen scene, and the one used in the Beat Street trailer.

IDENTIFIED AT LAST — that Wild Style mixer

It's been a long hunt over many years, employing deep Google trawling and forensic Photoshop techniques. But finally, thanks to the Numark Facebook page and a response from a single DJ with a photo, the mixer used in the final scenes of classic Hip Hop movie Wild Style has been identified at last.

Tag vintage

That old piece of DJ gear that you can’t live without

Retro mixer update: Wild Style and Beat Street mixers ID’d

IDENTIFIED AT LAST — that Wild Style mixer

HELP: Identify this old school DJ mixer

Simple pleasures — my retro Jazzy Jeff Gemini mixer

Old DJ gear that just keeps going