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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.
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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.
Here’s two of my favorite music/dj items in life: Maya Jane Coles and the Allen & Heath Xone:DB2. (And yeah, one of her own productions is featured as well. )
Being that the Keytar has reached cult status, these things were hard to come by, as that they were no longer manufactured on a high scale.
Many of you will be glad to hear that Alesis has developed a MIDI variant of the keytar, branding it Vortex.
Here’s my man Ean Golden showing of his skills!
