Friday Roundup: How To Build A Wind Powered Turntable

Bit of fun for you to kick off this week’s Friday Roundup, with a guide from Popular Science on how to build your very own wind powered turntable. Elon Musk would be proud… This story and more in our weekly roundup of stuff that’s caught our eye around the web.

1. Build A Wind-Powered Turntable With This Step-by-Step Guide – “All you need is some toilet roll tubes, some polystyrene cups, and some sticky-backed plastic…” Read more
2. Using Facebook For Event Marketing – Promoting your own DJ gigs on Facebook properly could be the difference between success and failure. Hypebot has some ideas Read more
3. How Did Deep House Become the Pulled Pork of Dance Music? – An rambling essay on the relentless march to the bottom of popular culture, from Thump Read more
4. What Are Your DJing Pearls Of Wisdom? – Our friends at DJ Worx ask their audience to share the little snippets of advice they’ve lived by in their own DJing Read more
5. How To Make A DJ Controller Case From A Suitcase – Heaven knows who would want to, but if that’s you, here’s how. Via DJ TechTools Read more
6. David Mancuso, Iconic DJ and Loft Founder, Dead at 72 – David Mancuso, the pioneering DJ who founded the iconic New York party the Loft, has died, reports Pitchfork Read more

That’s all from us for this week, have a great weekend and we’ll see you on the other side…

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