“Everything you need to know about the art of DJ’ing is contained in here,” claims this web site.
Remember those CueCat devices that some bright marketing department thought would be all the rage? A very gifted propellerhead engineer converted them into turntable cartridges and created his own FinalScratch-style controller with paper records, duct tape, and a soldering iron. Read his graduate thesis paper for the details.
The Faderfox LV1 is a “pocket-size, custom-made controller for Ableton Live.” I’ve bitched and moaned in the past about how Ableton is too mouse-oriented, so any controller made just for Ableton is a good thing in my book. Check out the review of this unit over at Electronic Music 411.
MTV is reporting that Danger Mouse is co-producing the next Gorillaz album. What an amazing rise-to-fame story — it was just last year that the whole Danger Mouse thing was a bedroom project.
The LA City Beat has a great headline story on the recent court ruling requiring clearance for even one-note samples.
Check out the interview with DJ Z-Trip @ Downhill Battle.
I feel inclined to report about this, but I’ll preface it by saying “big whoop.” Jay-Z and Linkin Park are going to release a collaborative mash-up album.
Get ready for the music industry to call every collaborative effort a mash-up.
Wal-Mart wants to price every CD it sells at 10 dollars. Labels can either fall in line by providing the price cuts needed to make this happen or kiss 138 million potential buyers goodbye. Rolling Stone magazine takes a candid look at how the world’s largest retailer has the music industry by [...]
Available for download now — mash-up DJ Reset’s mix of Beck, Jay-Z, and Pharrell Williams new single titled “Frontin’ on Debra.”
Where can you find it? Oddly enough, on iTunes!
“If remixing is an art form [then] why are the lawyers running the conversation,” asks radio show host Benjamen Walker. Described as “an hour-long ‘lawyer free’ examination of the art, culture, and history of the remix,” The Creative Remix is a new radio show hitting the air waves. This show is available for broadcast to [...]