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Ease into the day with this live mashup of dance tunes, made by the extremely talented Madeon. We’re impressed that this 17 year-old can remember all the right buttons to push. (Thanks Adam!)
Ease into the day with this live mashup of dance tunes, made by the extremely talented Madeon. We’re impressed that this 17 year-old can remember all the right buttons to push. (Thanks Adam!)
Designed “by DJs for DJs,” Red Wave headphones were made to sound great and look great. They’re powered by big 50mm neodymium drivers, and have swivel earcups for monitoring house audio.
The sleek Hoerboard Scomber Mix Table has a CNC-designed MDF top deck that’s customizable and is fixed to a lasercut powder-coated steel base; all power cables are invisibly integrated too.
Stylish DJs who want a little flash while mixing beats might like these gold colored HDJ-1000 headphones from Pioneer; they’ve got a frequency range of 5Hz to 30kHz and impendance of 36Ω.
It’s time to step aside Keyboard Cat and Turntable Dog. DJ Kitty is here, clawing and scratching his way through some hot tracks on his platter. Yeah, we know that’s a DJ Hero controller.
Sporting an “iconic, utilitarian and seductive” design, Aiaiai TMA-1 DJ headphones are the product of extensive research and collaboration with professional DJs and musicians.
Watch little Jack Gumbleton mess around with an AKAI APC40 controller, effortlessly transitioning and dropping wicked beats. Sure, the controller and software help, but the boy sure has rhythm.
Available 5/2010: Korg’s Monotron is a pocketable Analogue Ribbon Synth that runs on two AAA batteries yet is a fully featured with VCO, VCF, and LFO controls and a ribbon keyboard.
Pioneer’s DJM-2000 is a professional mixer with an industry-first 5.8″ color multi-touch screen which allows for virtual assignable triggers and faders; it’ll be available for $3k June 2010.
Available late 2010, Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 is a synth, sampler, and controller all-in-one with FM radio, accelerometer, AMOLED display, scissor switch keys, and aluminum unibody.
Workwear maker Carhartt teams up with Vestax for a special edition Handy Trax; the portable turntable includes a dynamic balanced tone arm, built-in speaker, and tough plastic casing.
The Beat Thang Machine is a fully mobile music production system, able to go 6 hours on a charge; it features a 3.5″ LC, 3,000+ sounds, onboard sampling/resampling, and USB in/out.
Minimalist but by no means musically impaired, Thomas Mascall’s Touchtable concept is 1/8 the size of a DJ setup; the turntable can create sample loops, cue points, and wireless battles.
Designed for MP3 mixing, the Touch DJ is a serious DJ app that features visual mixing and split mode; it won’t work with iTunes, but a free desktop app is included to load tracks.
Shure’s first cans for professional DJs, their SRH750DJ headphones boast a closed back design, padded ear cups that swivel 90 degrees, 50mm drivers, and a 10 ft. coiled cable.
Let the fur-lined hunting caps fly: this intro video for DJ Hero takes the classic DJ battle to epic heights, with collapsing overpasses, out of control semis and hordes of breakdancers.
Available 11/09, Pioneer’s CDJ-2000 is a multi-format digital turntable that can be linked with up to 4 other units; it also packs a 6.1″ LCD, needle search pad and jog dial.
Available in Diesel retail stores, this Turntable Bedding lets DJs mix it up in the bedroom with record player shams and a wicked blanket plastered with knobs, sliders and cables.
It looks plain outside, but QWSTION’s DJ Pack is packed like a Matryoshka doll with two sleeves for a 17″ laptop and mixer, space for 50 records, a 160 CD wallet and a headphone bag.
DJ Hero Renegade Edition is pricey, but intriguing: you’ll get a black/gold premium controller, a case that turns into a DJ stand, and a 2-CD pack with unreleased Jay-Z/Eminem tracks.
Numark’s new NDX400 CD turntable is portable and rugged, with skip protection tech, a slot-loading CD/MP3 CD drive, USB flash drive access and vinyl-style startup and stopping.
Bomb-proof claims for Mono’s 365 DJ Pack sound like marketing hype gone wild, but it does sport a military-spec and waterproof case, steel riveted handles and room for a 17″ laptop.
Adidas and Def Jam celebrate their respective birthdays (60 for the triple stripes, 25 for the recording studio) with this special edition DJ Bag decked out with logos; it’ll hold up to 30 LPs.
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