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I’ve been following Nadia Ali’s work since iiO released “Rapture” in 2001. Over the past decade, I’ve watched her evade [...]

  iDJ’s Jon Stones was on point when he described Kramnik’s latest 4.0 EP saying, “It doesn’t do much except [...]

It has become a bit of a tradition to nicely ask or give no choice to DJ VIPs to pose with the the famous, if not legendary skratchworx picture disk. This year was no exception when I crossed paths with the king and crown prince of the controllerism scene. Moldover is the acknowledged godfather and inventor of the name, and Ean Golden carries the torch for the growing scene.

I think most (if not all) of us have experienced one or thirty nights when the afterhours DJ drops that [...]

Having fought my way through draconian security at the NAMM show, I was confronted with a wall of tech on the Numark stand, but it was what was on the during the build that captured my imagination. It seems that the Numark and Akai DNA have been thrown together to make a MPC/DJ hybrid technology. The (wait for it) MPC DJ is a test piece – in no way a real product, and Numakai/Akaimark are floating this trial balloon to gauge the opinion of the public, to see if it should be make real.

I know you’re all wanting to know about the cool big stuff at NAMM (and it’ll come), but for this headphone junkie, when word hit me of an upgrade to the current DJ favourite HD25 cans, I was obliged to investigate. Behold the Sennheiser Amperior – the oddly named superior DJ headphones.

There’s only a little over a week left in January and, once again, LAVO New York managed to wrap up [...]

It’s literally Raning mixers at NAMM (hahaha I kill me sometimes), with not one but two new units aimed squarely at Rane’s turntablist hardcore. Looks like the legendary TTM line is no more, but in its place come a pair of numerically described Sixty-One and Sixty-Two mixers. Think upgraded 56S and half a Sixty Eight. That’s not all – Z-Trip also has his mark all over the limited edition Sixty-Two Z.

Video games and dubstep go together like crack and pipes – I mean, half the samples sound like they come [...]

I’ve been harping on about separates for years. A modular approach is how I see the DJ market adapting to an up and coming watershed moment where controllers simply cannot handle the increasing feature set of DJ software. And the new blood at Behringer have very perceptively spotted this emerging trend and have come up with a set of their own controllers for a wide variety of needs. The UFOs have finally landed and the CMD controller set is unveiled. I spoke with Craig Reeves at Behringer who gave me an exclusive lowdown on all things CMD.