Ultra Music Festival Miami is the world’s premiere electronic music festival. It is like the Olympics for electronic dance music (EDM) and every year with Miami Music Week all the major EDM artists and fans from around the world collide in Miami for this ultimate experience in dance music.
Last year we had a video in this section from Ko Matsushita where he used a Pioneer DJM-900, CDJ-2000, EFX-1000, Ableton Live, an iPad, Korg Kaossilator and Touch OSC to do a ‘mash-up’ of “Diabla (Metrik Remix)” by Funk D’ Void and “Flashback (Accapella)” by Calvin Harris. And now he returned with a new demonstration video but this time he uses the new Pioneer RMX-1000 FX controller to show his magic. We wanted to post this video as it is a simple hands-on video showing and, for us, seeing the little tricks and moves he makes to create a live mash-up.
The World Famous Beat Junkies, comprised of members J-Rocc, DJ Babu, D-Styles, DJ Rhettmatic, DJ What?!, Mr. Choc, Icy Ice, Curse, DJ Shortkut, Melo-D, Symphony and DJ Havik have been putting in work on the turntables since they were first established in 1992.
Very soon to be released and a pair to arrive at our Gearjunkies Techlab any day now, the Denon SC3900 already made quite the buzz in the DJ scene lately. The stuff we hear is, to say the least, exciting. People who had already have a chance to play and work with them are very positive. We can’t wait!
Tired of your drum sounds? Want to mix electronic samples with acoustic drums? In the video below Ryan from The Looploft shows us how to quickly layer and “double” multitrack drums in Logic 9 with electronic samples. This same production technique can be used in almost any DAW (Pro Tools, Ableton, Cubase, etc.) with drum replacement plugins, like Drumagog or Steven Slate Drum Replacer.
Yes, … new from Moog Music but we (and you) have to wait till 22nd June to get the full details of what it will be. In the meantime they have released a teaser video on Youtube. So let the guessing begin!
Another great feature by The SoundWorks Collection in which they talk with the sound team of Director Ridley Scott’s latest science fiction film “Prometheus” including Supervising Sound Editors Mark Stoeckinger and Victor Ennis, Sound Re-recording Mixers Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill, Sound Designers Ann Scibelli and Alan Rankin, and Sound Effects Researcher Charlie Campagna.
Last week Denon DJ started to tease with the mysterious “29” video. Soon after that rumours emerged that it would be the new SC2900 Media Player. And today they made it public that it is the SC2900 indeed and published an pre-release overview video of this puppy! It’s time to see what’s really behind the shadows and LEDs…
In this video you’ll get a look at some of the first Rack Extensions to arrive in Reason’s rack, hear direct from the developers themselves and, most importantly, see just how massive this expansion will be for your music.
Almost at the same time as the release of the 2.2.1 update of Serato’s Itch, Vestax released their VCI-380 DJ Controller. The VCI-380 is a two channel DJ controller with a built-in Digital DJ mixer, powerful and creative, opening the door to limitless possibilities of controllerism. Mix, scratch, cue, effect, sample, trigger, loop and slice.
There are millions of tutorials on Youtube but now and then we come across a tutorial we think is pretty cool. The video belows shows us how Tomeso syncs the Arturia Spark with Native Instruments Traktor DJ software. Why? Well because you can! This way DJs could make their sets just that bit more special by creating and adding their own beats!
Announced many, many moons ago, Behringer has finally set a date (July 27th) for its worldwide release, the Behringer X32 Digital Mixing Console. The X32 console sets a new benchmark for live sound mixing along with unprecedented value. Behringer is proud to offer the full-featured X32 digital mixing console with it’s large input and output channel count, comprehensive processing, flexible expansion options and intuitive user interface—all at a price point that anyone can afford!
Love it, hate it, but Rap is one of the pilars of modern EDM (Electronic Dance Music). Hip Hop and rap were on the front of the modern electronic music production. This genre made sampling to an art! Ice-T’s documentary should be watched by everyone, … therefor!
Oh that looks pretty cool. Well, all new gear looks great to us. But Denon just released this exciting, mysterious video teaser of a new product they’re working on. Looking at the video it is not clear to say if it’s a new controller or media player, or even …..? What you see is what you get, so we will have to wait on more details on what this new product will be, when and how much!
Hookemon (Nick Hook of Cubic Zirconia) talks Novation’s new Impulse MIDI controller in this new clip filmed at his studio in Greenpoint, taking you through the makings of a Cubic Zirconia track and giving some insight on his live setup. Geek out, and be sure to grab Cubic Zirconia’s Follow Your Heart LP and the “Take Me High” single, out now on Fool’s Gold.