SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: 50 OVERLOOKED CLASSICS PACKED WITH PROPER HOUSE GROOVES Tracks by Mr. Oizo, Audio Werner, Inland Knights and more HARRISON WILLIAMS (Mix Mag) 9 NOVEMBER 2017 This week's update to Mixmag's Overlooked Classics playlist on Spotify features a collection of deep and rhythmic house cuts from the depths of dance music's vast history, featuring [...]
Angus Harrison APR 26 2017, 11:20AM A genre built on gospel and stuck it on a Money Supermarket advert. This post ran originally on THUMP UK. The nightclubs of the late-20th century, or at least the version of them we've constructed in our collective memory, always had a touch of the ecclesiastical about them. DJs were [...]
DJ JAZ and the Church of Episco-Disco John aka 'JAZ' is an Episcopalian minister by day and cosmic-disco slinging DJ by night—exploring where the Lord's teachings and dancefloor intersect. In the first episode of THUMP Profiles, THUMP travels to JAZ's home in Charleston, South Carolina to catch a sermon behind the altar (and the [...]
Pioneer DJ just released an update to its Rekordbox software. Now at version 5.0.2, it brings compatibility to Apple’s latest macOS High Sierra operating system. A raft of minor tweaks accompanies it, along with bug fixes related to Interface 2, the DDJ-RZX, and the XDJ-RX. macOS High Sierra support in Rekordbox 5.0.2 means that Mac users can [...]
Jazzy Jeff Interview: “I Lost All My Tunes 5 Minutes Before A Gig” We sat down with hip-hop DJ legend Jazzy Jeff at this past weekend's BPM | PRO show. Phil Morse October 27, 2017 | Read time: 1 min I caught up with Jazzy Jeff backstage at the BPM | PRO Show 2017, following an outstanding DJ [...]
Native Instruments Just Got A $59 Million Investment: What Next? (DJ Tech Tools) By Dan White On Oct 26, 2017 While the DJ community continues to watch Native Instruments with a simplistic “when will we see Traktor Pro 4?” lens, the Berlin-based company has been busy raising cash. They’ve received a massive investment of $59,000,000 from EMH, a private [...]
The One Thing That Will Destroy Your Local Scene Fast DAVID MICHAEL (Passionatedj.com) One of the recurring themes on this blog is how to operate within, and interact with, a local scene in a small town. There are two reasons for this. The first is that it’s the situation which I’m familiar with, being someone involved [...]
I Was There When: House Music Took Over The World Behind the scenes with Jake Sumner of the new Ch 4 documentary on the dawn of House Music in Chicago. July 11, 2017 In October of last year, I was contacted by people that were working on a music series for Channel 4 in [...]
Elevate the standard: Meet the DJS-1000 standalone DJ sampler, Intuitive DJ-friendly interface and powerful performance features for improvising unique sounds and phrases We’ve created a new standalone DJ sampler that enables you to create unique sounds and phrases using an intuitive DJ-friendly interface: the DJS-1000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTM_Qn1u3kE Many of today’s professional DJs use electronic instruments [...]
KUMAR MCMILLAN VIA FLICKR // CC BY-SA 2.0 If you’ve ever enjoyed dance music, you’re familiar with the concept of the remix. It’s so simple: Some producer you’ve never heard of, in a studio you’ve never seen, takes a fun pop tune and stretches it out to five, six, seven minutes. The beats are boosted, the instruments [...]
