Since I started collecting records in 2012, I’ve been using a trusty Pro-Ject Audio turntable my dad gave me ... don’t get a Crosley,” says DJ Prestige of the DJ-focused website Fleamarket ...

The devices are CD players that have a slip pad disc like a platter on an analog turntable. The DJ holds and reverses the slip pad to produce scratchy sounds and other special effects that are ...

Traditionally the role of the DJ was to play records on the turntable, mixing in one track after the other. The emergence of a new music genre, hip hop, produced DJs who were significantly more ...