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Henry Rollins featuring The Techno Viking (Steve Porter remix)

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:34:48 CDT

Steve Porter takes the piss again with another remix, this time tackling Henry Rollins on a rant about dance music, with a bit of techno viking thrown in for good measure.

OTTO - Musical Instrument for Beat-Slicing

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:59:07 CDT

OTTO is a new musical instrument for beat-slicing, the technique that allows to create complex and variegated rhythm sections by using just one rhythmic audio sample, cutting it into little pieces and rearranging them in time. OTTO provides a hardware solution with a strong visual feedback, to allow the musician to control the audio sample as if it was in his hands

Sony InTheMix DJ Top 50 Voting Underway

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:07:49 CDT

Voting in the 2009 Sony inthemix50 is now underway; your opinion counts so be sure to cast your vote today. Let us know who rocks your world and you could win the seriously sexy major prize from Sony, worth over $5,000!

Fatboy Slim and UK DMC Champ JFB on Serato's Video Scratch Plugin

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:22:13 CDT

Check out this video from DJMag, where they speak to Fatboy Slim and UK DMC champ JFB, who give us the lowdown on the latest update to Serato's revolutionary video scratch plugin.

Bryan Gee - Drum & Bass Legend

Wed, 20 May 2009 20:01:53 CDT

Without Bryan Gee, Drum & Bass as we know it today would not exist. Check out this interview with the man himself as he takes us through a journey of jungle/dnb and sound systems. Bryan Gee is also performing @ the Moonbar in Brisbane tonight.

Auduino Space Groove

Tue, 19 May 2009 18:48:41 CDT

Denkitribe posted this rather sweet demo of Tinker.it!'s Arduino based sound synthesizer project, appropriately titled "Auduino". While some delay/reverb+accompaniment have definitely been added, the sweet sounds of granular synthesis still shine through.

Exclusive: DJ Hero Interview With DJ Shadow

Sat, 16 May 2009 10:38:45 CDT

Activision’s newest venture into the genre of music games is an exploration of the world of DJs. So they went straight to the source—DJ Shadow. One of the most ground breaking DJs of all time, Shadow is the authority on all things cool in said genre.

Go back in time with Record Design

Sat, 9 May 2009 09:15:02 CDT

Eric Baker Design Associates is a Manhattan-based design firm and he teaches the history of graphic design and corporate identity at the School of Visual Arts -- here showing vinyl record branding.

DJ Hero Controller Revealed

Thu, 7 May 2009 22:48:59 CDT

Personally I don't have a lot of interest in this, but some of you may so now you can check it out!

Mini MPC 2000XL / SP1200 Flash Drives

Tue, 5 May 2009 18:10:07 CDT

Designed with the modern musician in mind, these two bad boys are convincingly modeled on the AKAI MPC2000XL sampler and the EMU SP1200 drum machine. And by "convincingly modeled" we mean that they look pretty much exact to their original counterparts.

iSnort - Cocaine Simulator iPhone App

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:34:18 CDT

Why? I don't know, but made me laugh regardless.

Gram Speakers are solar-powered, fit in your pocket

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:45:52 CDT

Listening to your fave tunes while cavorting on a sun-splashed beach could get a lot more convenient if Finnish designer Pekka Salokannel has his way. His design concept for solar-powered Gram Speakers is patterned after old-timey gramophone record players from a century ago, but that outward appearance is where the similarity ends.

Spinning vinyl on the iPhone

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:01:26 CDT

Theo Watson just wrote an iPhone app to simulate spinning vinyl by spinning your phone. The app uses the accelerometer of the iPod touch to control the speed of a ‘vinyl record’ on the iPod screen.

Enter the Tone Matrix

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:50 CDT

Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute.

Scratch: The Ultimate DJ developer sues Activision

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:12:19 CDT

In a David and Goliath story for the ages, Scratch: The Ultimate DJ (a partnership between Genius Products and Numark formed to develop and publish the game of the same name) have revealed a mountain of details regarding a lawsuit against mega-publisher Activision [DJ Hero].