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While browsing through one of my favorite Digital DJ Blogs, digitaldjtips.com, I came across this fine posting.

François Kevorkian, better known under his alias François K, writes about his experiences when he suddenly found himself with CDJs again, in stead of his trusty Native Instruments Kontrol S4.

While we are the first to underline the importance of being able to DJ on CDJs and ideally, over time, on all types of gear, we also believe that digital is the most exciting format out there. Trading “up” to CDJs or record decks just doesn’t make any sense at all to us.

Turns out we’re not alone in that sentiment. We thought today we’d reprint in its entirety the following self-confessed Facebook Page “rant” by New York veteran DJ and Paradise Garage / Studio 54 legend, François Kevorkian aka François K. In it, he rallies against digital DJ haters, and speaks of how boring he found it when he decided to use CDJs a recent Deep Space event in NYC.

Continued here on digitaldjtips.com»

 
This application just seems to get more awesome by the minute! I was already fan of the previous release, can’t wait to get my mits on this one.

Today I’m releasing KeyFinder version 1.1.9.
Features include:
* GUI enhancements including live tag updating and simpler Preferences window
* option to write to multiple tags
* option to skip files where tags already populated
* parallel (faster) metadata reading for big batch jobs
* use of keycodes in detailed analysis window
* support for Japanese charsets (on the Mac, at least)
* CLI (sort of) and drop-to-dock-icon (Mac)
* all kinds of bug fixes

And this version brings Windows into line with the Mac release, feature wise. I’m sure there are still bugs to iron out but I think it should be more stable now.

Feedback welcome as always. Enjoy.

I’m downloading the new version as we speak!

DJ TechTools has teamed up with Mono to produce a high-quality bag for large controllers like the Native Instruments Kontrol S4. Mono are the team behind some of the nicest bags in the industry, and after we created our own S4 shoulder bag, they offered to take it up a notch with their signature design and construction. The resulting product is super-impressive and quite possibly the best looking way to travel with a large controller. To celebrate this announcement, DJ TechTools is offering a special Winter deal during this December.

> continued on DJ TechTools

17 year old UK RapBattle phenom Blizzard gets blasted by his english teacher, Mark Grist on UK RapBattle show “Don’t Flop”.

Even though Blizzard would ordinarily  make short work of others, it’s apparent why he should still pay homage to his teachers.
(Forward the clip to 1:30 to start the episode)

KeyFinder is an open source key detection tool for DJs who are interested in harmonic and tonal mixing. Designed primarily for electronic and dance music, it is highly configurable and can be applied to many genres. It supports a huge range of codecs thanks to LibAV, and writes to metadata tags using TagLib.

It’s intended to be very focused: no library management, no track suggestions, no media player. Just a fast, efficient workflow tool.

The standard KeyFinder interface performs batch jobs, detecting the keys of a group of files quickly and simply. There is also a detailed analysis interface, which can be used to visualise chord structures, melodies and key changes in a single recording.

The creator developed this software as part of a project to obtain his MSc in Computer Science.

The software is aimed for OSX, but a windows version can also be obtained from the website of Ibrahim Shaath.



Have you ever dreamed of playing in another state or even country? I’m sure you have. It’s a dream practically every DJ out there has the moment they get on the decks.

They see the headliners and even popular locals flying around the world to play, and want to be there themselves one day. 

Now you might think playing abroad is a privilege only set for those guaranteed to fill a club – but that’s not entirely true. What if I told you it could be easier than you think?  Yes, with a little work and some ingenuity, you could play abroad too. Here’s how…

Read more here…

CITYHOPPER is a video project starring Dutch Rollerblade phenom Sven Boekhorst. All in the name of testing out his new Rollerblade SB Pro skate.

Check out cityhopper.nu for more info.