New devices and workflow improvements feature in the update, which is currently being beta tested. An update to Ableton Live is on the way. The new version is currently in beta ahead of a general release and features a host of workflow improvements and new devices. The Wavetable instrument added in Live 10 now accepts user-generated [...]
Peggy Gou, Lee Burridge, tINI and Josh Wink reveal how they deal with pre-set jitters SCOTT ENMAN | 31 JANUARY 2019 DJs ooze confidence behind the decks, effortlessly mixing tracks for hours on end, the masses pulsing below. Calm, cool and collected, they display seemingly flawless performances night in, night out. [...]
WILLIE WALL·TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2019 Happy to Announce 2018 had some good times 2019 about to have some Awesome times Our family have Grown larger.......With some of the best DJs around the world Such as Kenneth Warren Jr / Lenny Fontana / Don UN /Ozkar Fuller /Phil Sales UK / Romain Gowe / John [...]
Oh Technics SL-1200, you were the stuff of legends! You were always there. We never thought anything would change. And for decades, it didn’t. But like an adored band breaking up, you left us. We found ourselves in a prolonged state of denial, then shock. Life went on, though. Poor imitations stepped into your [...]
https://youtu.be/6gaqQvwKhtc Ahead of the 2019 NAMM Show, Behringer officially introduced the RD-808 drum machine. The Behringer RD-808 is expected to be available in March for US $299
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Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo) At CES 2016, Panasonic revived the Technics 1200 turntable line which had last been updated with the MK6 back in 2008. The pricey Grand Class Technics SL-1200G was targeted at audiophiles, however, while the 1200’s biggest fanbase had been mostly DJs who loved its high-torque, direct-drive platter. Two years later, Panasonic announced the Technics [...]
House music is gay music. The sound emerged from the queer black and latinx club cultures of New York and Chicago in the ’80s. Strangely, these roots of the culture are not very well represented on the global touring club circuit today. There seem to be fewer big name openly queer touring DJs than their straight cis-gendered peers. [...]
There were few obvious reasons to celebrate in the New York City of the 1970s, an era defined more by grime and crime than glitz or glamour in the crowded hub. Every day seemed to bring new challenges as the city's anxious residents slogged away; the Bronx was burning, violence was escalating, and everyone from cops [...]
Moodymann displayed his unique take on the Detroit sound during his closing set in the Blue Room during Detroit Love at TV Lounge in Detroit on Saturday, March 7, 2015. (Photo: John Froelich, Special to the Detroit Free Pres) Highland Park police officers pulled their guns on Detroit DJ Moodymann during a confrontation outside his [...]
