Remix Resample Reuse
One of my favorite Turntablism-Crews is the french crew C2C. C2C have won the DMC world Team Championships a record breaking 4 times, an achievement matched by no other artist in the history of DMC.
DJs Greem, Atom, Pfel & 20Syl make up the French quartet and each use their turntables as instruments recreating drums or bass guitars, scratching a riff of guitar or shearing the brass, to lead to a harmony similar to that of traditional bands.
One of my objectives at Musikmesse Frankfurt 2009 was getting the latest info on new Vestax gear.
To my surprise the Vestax booth was pretty small and didn’t really stick out between all the different manufacturers. I rather had a hard time finding their booth at all.
News at the Vestax booth were also pretty rare and to my surprise the exhibited products mainly focused on digital dj equipment. Only two turntables and a few mixers were issued.
I found this flash-game surfing around on myspace…
You can mix and scratch different tunes in three level of difficulty. This little flash-application is done fairly well and it makes fun playing around with the turntables.
Actually it made me a little addictive and I played around for quite a while…
Novation has introduced the Novation SL MkII control keyboard at Musikmesse 2009.
The second generation of Novations controllers are the enhancements of the popular Novation Remote series. Since the Remote 25 SL is one of my central and most important components within my dj-setup, I am really expactant on the revised version of the controller.
I’m sure most of you have seen the special kind of barcode made up of pixelly patterns on Japanese websites and magazines which allows supported mobile phones to visit a certain url by taking a snap of the barcode.
It’s called QR (Quick Response) Code and is very popular in Japan.
As I want to stay up to date and try out the latest technological gadgets on the market, I have created a new djmx sticker encrypted with the QR code.
So keep your eyes open, maybe you will get to see one of my new djmx QR code stickers in your city.
Ableton has released the next generation of its live sequencing applications, Live 8 and Ableton Suite 8.
I am very excited about this news and can’t wait to get my hands on the new version of Ableton.
I already took a sneak into the beta version of the software but didn’t really got to get into all the new functions and improvements.
I will do my first steps with the new version within the next weeks to get a feeling what has changed and what new functions are really interesting for my setup.
Rane and Serato announce SL3 – Fresh from the Musikmesse 2009:
The new Serato Scratch Live 3 package by Rane is available in stores now!
The package got introduced at Musikmesse 2009 in Frankfurt and is the long awaited update to the original SL 1 audio interface that addresses some of its common problems.
About two weeks ago I stumbled across the following article:
“Controller DJs in Germany & Austria!
Vestax presents a new style battle for those who have mastered the skills of DJing with midi.
Send a 10min video of your mix with a Vestax midi controller to our German distribution wether via e.-mail or regual mail. The deadline is March 15th …
4 winners will be selected to battle at the finals in Frankfurt, April 3rd 2009.”
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I decided to change my homepage into a more bloggy-page…
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