Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Welcome to the first of many SCIM tutorials on electronic music production. Presented by SCIM Cape Town resident experts Willie Els and Ryan Murgatroyd, we will focus on genre-specific tips and techniques for all the latest electronic styles. To kick things off let’s look at the techniques behind the latest craze in electronic music – […]
An instrument of musical elocution … A masterpiece amongst mixers What Is It? If there was a Louvre for DJ mixers you would be sure to find the Xone92 occupying one of the positions of honour there. It really is one of the best pieces of gear I’ve had the pleasure of working on and it’s […]
Salutations and greetings IDMings! This is our new column called ‘Tricks from the Pro’s’ where I’ll take you through some common, but sometimes unknown tricks of the production trade. Diving straight into it, side-chaining is all about making one sound reduce in volume when another plays. You can do this manually in a lot of […]
Now every-one’s a DJ! The most affordable DJ solution yet? Read on…. Vestax Typhoon What Is It? The brand new Vestax Spin and Typhoon are DJ midi controllers designed to control computer DJ software. As you can see from the pictures they look identical, notwithstanding the different plastic colour schemes used on the facia and […]
“get back to the roots of beat production” What Is It? Simplicity is the name of the game. Akai Professional’s approach with the design of the XR20 takes us right back to the traditional button bashing hip-hop beat making system. The O.G. producers familiar with Akai’s MPC range will be down with the real-time programming […]
Forget the fuss, just Kontrol it!!! What is it? Kontrol X1 is the hugely popular and in-demand midi controller designed specifically for Native Instruments’ Traktor LE, Scratch and Pro suite of DJ software. Opting to take a different approach to most by not introducing the traditional all-in-one DJ midi controller with jog wheels, mixer and […]
What is it? Serato and Traktor are the two best DJ software programs available today. If you disagree, well you can just ‘kiss my studio!!!’ When I tested the Vestax VCI-300, arguably one of the best all-in-one DJ controllers designed specifically to work with Serato Itch I was uber impressed with the overall functionality and […]
“This is a fantastic way to improve your skills. It’s also a great way to copy the arrangement of the other track and learn how the music ebbs and flows.” An interesting trick I was shown when I was younger to improve my production skills was to take a track that I liked that had a […]
What Is It? It is easily the most compact MP3 CDJ on the market today. The DN-S700 is a result of Denon paying attention to their customers’ requests and scaling down the features on the DN-S1200 to present us with a product that fits in nicely at the front of their already impressive range. It’s […]
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 […]
