Audio Technica
AT-VM95E/H (Headshell/Cartridge Combo Kit)

Black basic headshell (Technics style) with lead wires suitable for 4-pin scren in tone arms such as Technics 1200 or Audio Technica LP120x turntables.

“This memoir will go down as required reading in years to come.” – Flea Market Funk, DJ Prestige“A remarkable, and still ongoing, journey.” – The Daily Beast, Pat MeschinoVP Records co-founder, and one of the reigning matriarchs of Reggae music, Patricia “Miss Pat” Chin, continues to lead the largest independent label and distributor of Caribbean music. Her energetic and engaging autobiography covers her family history, her relationship with her late husband Vincent Chin - and to Jamaica overall - her arrival in New York City in the late 70s, and of course her crucial role in the founding of VP Records. The book is packed with fantastic archival images spanning the emergence of Jamaican music as a cultural force in the 1950s up until today, bringing Miss Pat’s revelatory memoir to life. Perspectives from business people, politicians, and musicians including Chris Blackwell (founder of Island Records), Edward Seaga (Former prime minister of Jamaica), singer Marcia Griffiths, and Lee “Scratch” Perry further light up the amazing story of Miss Pat’s life and experiences.

When Robbie Ettelson started the music blog unkut.com in 2004 to fill-in time during the night shift as a printer, he hadno idea it would lead him to working as music journalist for print magazines in the US, UK, Italy, France, Germany andJapan. Over the course of the following decade, Robbie conducted over 180 phone interviews with rappers, DJ's,producers, musicians and journalists.Past The Margin: A Decade of Unkut Interviews is a collection of long-form interviews with those who were there forthe key milestones in the development of rap. It features thirty conversations with members of pioneering groups suchas Public Enemy, De La Soul, Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Boogie Down Productions and The Beatnuts, as well aslegendary soloists such as LL Cool J, Schoolly-D and Just-Ice. Plus exclusive sessions with three of the key membersof the Sugar Hill Records house band, who were responsible for hits such as Grandmaster Flash and The FuriousFive's 'The Message'.'What could someone from another continent know about this thing born of the urban immigrant experience within thecity which never sleeps? Apparently everything. Unkut was the student of rap that Hip-Hop always needed. Aninsufferable purist with an acute sense of detail and memory. This collection is more than just some of the bestinterviews over the past ten years but more like a landmark document from an era in music, art and culture we willnever again witness. This is a cultural document for you to learn who and what influenced the most influential genre ofmusic ever.' - Dallas Penn

Quasar (q-way-zar) noun/astronomy: a massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a starlike image in a telescope. Castlemaine based beat maker and producer Ronny Quasar (aka Matt Rolfe) presents his second full length album Tropicality out now on bandcamp and on limited edition cassette. Tropicality draws on the mutations of equatorial music from around the globe, mixing break beats, psychedelia, wah, funk and percussion. Synthesisers swell like spinnakers in a long Caribbean sunset. Dusty drum chops and field recordings are held together by electromagnetic forces. This music is for peninsula hotels verging the jungle wilderness, where the DJ spins gold in a nightclub known as The Panther Machine. These beats are for the shark-hat seeker of tropical wonder in a vista filled with speedboats, exotic birds, rum and reefer over turquoise waters. The second single Catamaran evokes both the discoteque and the yacht club overseen by the glittering mysteries of deep space.

Long Relationships: My Incredible Journey from Unknown DJ to Small-Time DJ by Harold Heath Written by former DJ/producer Harold Heath, Long Relationships: My Incredible Journey FromUnknown DJ to Small-time DJ is a biographical account of a DJ career defined by a deep love of music and a shallow amount of success.From the days of vinyl, when DJs were often also glass-collectors, to the era of megastar stadium EDM, it's a journey of 30 odd years on a low-level, economy-class rollercoaster through the ups and downs of an ever-changing music industry.Long Relationships is a love letter to DJing and to every small-town DJ who never made it to the big time but whose life was enriched and improved by DJing anyway. It's packed with tales of gigs, clubs, raves, warehouses, music, record production and record deals, low-rent international travel, shady promoters, dodgy club security, magical dance floor moments and much more.If you ever DJed, if you ever lost yourself on a dance floor, or if you ever simply fell in love with the potential contained within a dark basement, a strobe and a sound system, then this story is your story.

0.3 x 0.7 mil elliptical replacement stylus for the AT-VM95 series cartridge. Dual Moving Magnet Cartridge. Nude styli, shaped from whole diamonds, are more costly than bonded styli, with their diamond tips “bonded” to metal shanks before finishing. But because of their lower mass, nude styli track more accurately. Also, since our nude styli are grain-oriented, with their longest-wearing faces touching the record surface, they last longer.SPECIFICATIONSFrequency Response: 20 - 23,000 HzChannel Separation: 22 dB (1 kHz)Vertical Tracking Angle: 23°Vertical Tracking Force: 1.8 to 2.2g (2.0g standard)Stylus Construction: Nude Round Shank