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...than a decade before cutting three albums with his band SadSadFun. Which is why when the 29-year-old Chulada deejays at Mecca, a velvet-draped club in San Francisco, he only uses Technics SL-1200 direct-drive turntables to spin his favorite vinyls. "When I used the Tech 12s, I feel like I'm playing a real musical instrument," he says, his fingers, with blue-varnished nails, keeping time to the lush, melodic Frisco beat. "With other turntables, I'm just using a record player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techno Fetishes | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...decks a year-and-a-half ago, they were a musical revelation. "I spent two months learning how to spin on inferior turn-tables," he says, outfitted for maximum hipness in a plum-colored oxford, tight black trousers and two-day stubble. "Then when I tried the Tech 12s, I suddenly felt like a real deejay." Today, the former hippie haven of Haight-Ashbury, where the laid-back Chulada bunks with his brother, teems with hundreds of makeshift Mobys scratching out their living. Some, including Chulada, have made it to the coolest clubs, like Mecca where a weekly knock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techno Fetishes | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...addition to favoring what became known as "zero only," Perle wanted the U.S. proposal to contain a number of measures that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to negotiate: 1) existing shorter-range Soviet missiles, such as the SS-12s and SS-22s, would have to be eliminated along with the SS-20s; 2) the limits should apply "globally," in other words not only to the 243 SS-20s deployed within range of Western Europe but to an additional 90 or so in Asia; 3) there would be a ban not just on launchers but on extra rockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Control: Arms Control: Behind Closed Doors | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...Beach, Calif., will probably do double takes this week when two of the Lilliputian yachts engage in a mini-America's Cup series. Both boats in the regatta are the products of Illusion 12, a San Diego-based company that has sold 72 of its $3,520 mini-12s since it began producing them under license from a British firm in April. Says Richard Seay, a partner in the firm: "The boat is called the Illusion because if you didn't see the skipper's head poking above deck, you'd think it was an actual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiny 12s | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Modeled on Courageous, the America's Cup winner in 1974 and 1977, the little Illusion has the feel of a big boat. Most one-man competitive craft like the Force Five (price: $1,925) are faster than the mini-12s, but they are lightweight and prone to tipping. The mini-12s have keels weighted with lead ballast to make them self-righting. So instead of hanging out over the side to keep the boat upright in a stiff breeze, the skipper stays tucked inside the cockpit in roughly the position of someone sitting on a chaise longue. He steers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiny 12s | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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