Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
One of the few surviving “DJ Shops” Retro Music has both survived and thrived by evolving with the times and anticipating the future and today is a one stop shop of products from basic to high end Audio Visual gear and custom installations to the best in DJ equipment and accessories. Their range of Dj […]
Feature packed DJ Media player that won’t hurt your pocket What Is It? The Gemini CDJ-600 is an extremely well priced and versatile table top media player designed for deejaying. Although it may look like just a regular Dj CD player, it is in fact more than this as one is able to play CD’s […]
In this last article in the series, I’ll chat to you about some of the basics of mixing and mastering your track. Preparing for the Mix Inevitably, good mix plug-ins often use up more CPU power than lower end ones – although that’s not to say the pro’s don’t use them. It depends if they […]
The Yardstick by which all other CDJ’s are likely to be judged… What Is It? It is the bell that tolls the end of DJ’s working with the CD format. What Pioneer have launched with the CDJ2000 is a multi-audio format professional DJ player/MIDI controller that is capable of performing off CD, DVD Audio, USB, […]
The most advanced and unique software bass instrument available What Is It? Those legendary sound gurus from Spectrasonics have struck yet again with the update of the award winning Trilogy bass module. The new Trilian Total Bass Module now runs on the same STEAM Engine technology which powers Omnisphere, and includes a massive 34 GB […]
10 of the 14 recommended If you don’t yet know about Music Radar – you should. It’s a great website run by Computer Music magazine (UK) and features the latest and greatest tech way before it reaches sunny SA. Of course once you’ve spotted this new tech, IDM is the place to keep your eye […]
“There are a few basic instruments that come free with Live that are simple to use and very effective in creating music.” Most producers and song writers will first sketch out an idea, i.e. make a demo of a track concept to get the idea down and later flesh it out for release. Ableton Live is […]
“A truly authentic drumming experience with a myriad of incredibly realistic drum sounds” What is it? Roland unveils its flagship model of V-Pro Electronic Drums with the newly revamped TD20SX. Never before has a V-Drum kit been styled so closely to an acoustic kit, with chrome hardware frames and cymbal pads, deeper drum shells and a […]
Building rainbows – Bob Moog and the evolution of vibration. It was the Sixties, one of history’s most unleashed, rabid, and colourful experiments/revolutions in popular music and culture was happening stateside. A black man in flamingo top-hats was biting burning Stratocasters onstage and white kids were actually cheering, while hungry young lasses swooned with intent. Sound was […]
