Turntable Adds Private Messaging!
You may have noticed we’ve added a little something to Turntable! Got something to say that you don’t want to share with the whole room? You can now chat privately with your Facebook and Twitter friends, as well as people you’ve fanned. It even works if you and the person you’re chatting with are in different rooms! Just click on the private message icon in the lower left hand corner of your browser window to see who’s around, find a friend you want to chat with, and you’re off!
If you decide that you’re not in the mood to chat you can set your availability by clicking on the settings icon and unchecking ‘Available for private chat’
When you’re ready to chat again hit the ‘Become available’ button to let your friends know that you’re around:
You won’t receive private messages from someone you’ve already ignored. If someone new is bothering you and you’d rather not receive private messages from them you can manage your ignored users from the chat settings icon too.
It’s that easy! Get chatting!
Modern Art Tour Listening Parties!
Exciting news! Modern Art Records and Consequence of Sound have put together the Modern Art Tour. A whole bunch of bands are going to be out on tour together like Miniature Tigers, Geographer, The Chain Gang Of 1974, and SPEAK. So basically, it’s going to be fantastic.
But wait, why am I telling you this?
Here’s why: each artist from the Modern Art Tour is going to be on Turntable to host exclusive weekly listening parties before the tour dates arrive and it’s all starting tonight Thursday 2/16 at 6PM EST. Members from all five bands will be making appearances at the parties. That’s Charlie Brand and Algernon Quashie from Miniature Tigers, Nathan Blaz from Geographer, Kamtin Mohager from The Chain Gang Of 1974, and Troupe Gammage from SPEAK. They will be spinning new tracks, exclusive first listens of upcoming music, and current jams they’re excited about. There might even be some surprise special guests. You’ll just have to show up and see.
If you want to be there when the magic happens head on over to http://turntable.fm/modern_art_tour at 6pm EST tonight and again every Thursday at 6pm until 3/1. After that the tour kicks off and you can see them in person, if you’re into that kind of thing.
So, here’s the bottom line. On 2/16, 2/23, and 3/1 at 6pm EST there are going to be great artists from rad bands spinning tunes and hanging out in http://turntable.fm/modern_art_tour and you should be there.
What turntable almost looked like
We were perusing some old files and this was what the first designed version of turntable looked like. It’s funny looking back at it and feels like something out of TRON. Ultimately it didn’t fit in with the feel we wanted to give (making turntable feel like a small trendy, but homey venue).
Rock out with Turntable for the GRAMMYS
We’ve teamed up with The Recording Academy (aka The GRAMMYs) in partnership with CoverGirl, Olay, and Venus to present GRAMMY Glam — celebrating the intrinsic connection between music and glamour — on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 at MyHouse in Hollywood, Calif.
The exclusive, star-studded, red carpet event will kick-off GRAMMY Week leading up to Music’s Biggest Night, the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
GRAMMY Glam celebrates empowering women in music and glamour, and will feature beauty-themed rooms from CoverGirl, Olay and Venus, as well as DJ sets by four-time GRAMMY winner DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown a.k.a. Erykah Badu, GRAMMY winner DJ Spinderella of Salt-N-Pepa, and hot new DJ duo The Jane Doze. It’s pretty much going to be awesome.
If you want to get in on the party, join the ”GRAMMY Glam” room on Turntable! One lucky winner will get to virtually DJ at the event alongside The Jane Doze for the evening’s opening act. Simply tweet from our Turntable.fm Grammy Glam room (http://tt.fm/grammy_glam) and include a #GrammyGlam hashtag to enter.
Social engagement via Facebook and Twitter will also be featured at glam.grammy.com where fans can upload photos and join in the #GRAMMYGlam conversation.
Find out more at grammy.com/glam.
See you DJs there!
Future Garage/2 Step/UK Dubstep/Grime
Looking for somewhere to something that’s a little more dubstep and a little less brostep? Want to find out what the difference is? Check out Future Garage/2 Step/UK Dubstep/Grime to check out great DJs and producers honing their tracks and picking appart the finer points of electronic music generes.
CoJack started playing “Fog” by Sduk
jessipedia: hey folks
disk: oh snap everyones here
VYGR: hey jessi
Bo Peep (TNP): Heya.
jessipedia: what’s going on? ready for some interviewing?
VYGR: sure
disk: woot!
jessipedia: ok, well, first of all…What kind of music do you all play here, because I don’t really know what any of those music genres are… : /
digerati: >_< lol
VYGR: We play all sorts of Bass Music, Dubstep that is focused on sub-bass rather than on unbearable loud and screechy mid-range sounds, UK Garage, Grime, UK Funky, House, Juke, Footwork, some Jungle, Liquid DnB and so on.
jessipedia: what differentiates UK Dubstep from US? other than nationality..
VYGR: The love for bass, which means that we use subs to listen to our music and not just laptop speakers. Hah!
Bo Peep (TNP): LOL. FOR THE LOVE OF SUBS! RAWR!
digerati: ‘If your tune sounds like a bunch of power tools at a Home Depot – that’s not bass, that’s not sub, therefore, it’s not dubstep!’ -Joe Nice (UK Dubstep Ambassador)
trees: even tho he’s from the US, he still keeps it real/UK :p “UK dubstep” is just a sort of guideline, we play plenty of good US-based dubstep.
jessipedia: haha, ok. What’s Grime?
VYGR: Grime emerged from South London in the early 2000s as a development or blend of UK Garage, Dancehall, and Hip Hop.
trees: people like dizzee rascal and wiley are considered grime MCs
Turntable Comic pg 3. Later I’m going to make a different tumblr for this… also next week this is turning into a romcom.
***update - i’ll update this here: http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/asthetableturns
The third, and most awesome, page of aforementioned comic. The URL above appears to be restricted, but we just couldn’t keep this one to ourselves! Everyone should go hug mitchloidolt, this is the best!
Turntable.fm comic. Not sure how this is going to go as I haven’t made one before really. The story continues every Sunday!
These are the frist two installments of a wicked cool Turntable comic. It looks like only the first three are available for public viewing, but this was just too good not to share!
Steve Aoki
We had a pretty great night here on Turntable when the spectacular Steve Aoki stopped by to DJ his new album for everyone. While he was making the room dance to his jams he also had a sweet Ustream going where fans could catch a behind the scenes look at Aoki while he spun. He shared some background info on the songs he was playing as well as his IRL dance moves, which were pretty great. At the end of the night he gave away some signed limited edition SOL Republic headphones too. This was also the first event where an over flow room was set up so that people who could not get into the main event room could join the party too. By the end of the evening even the over flow room was nearly full and a good time was had by all!
