Few days ago i came across this video on twitter . The video portraits a Senegalese musician who is playing an instrument called Cas Cas, also known as Kashaka which is a simple percussion instrument consisting of[…]

DJs with an interest in gear couldn’t have missed the “recent” emerge of Denon DJ SC5000 Prime table top media player. If you did, check out my earlier posts here and here. Despite the fact[…]

The debate about Digital versus Analogue has been going on for some time now; and still is. Below is a video that explains how vinyl fares towards its modern day digital counterparts, but also looks[…]

It is not news that Pioneer DJ is giving Production tools (instruments and such) a go. The sampler Toraiz SP16 and the monophonic analogue synthesizer Toraiz AS-1 have been out for a while now, and[…]

When it comes to HW-based DJ-gear there have only really been a few players to speak of. For turntables the one on the throne is obviously Technics 1200/1210. I guess Vestax had turntables popular amongst[…]

Get an insight into what gear and setups techno gurus Carl Cox and Richie Hawtin use playing live. For their style of Music I would say these are very interesting setups. However, and in my[…]

I have been running Mac OS X Mojave for a while now, and I am super happy about the new dark design. For once Rekordbox worked fine in the transition between High Sierra and Mojave[…]

MWM developed what might be the Ultimate DVS system. I don’t use a DVS system myself, but Phase can simplify the setup quite a bit as it transfers timecodes wirelessly to a receiver which is[…]

So Denon DJ has improved their already awesome DJ-player, and release the SC5000M of the prime series. M stands for Motorized and means the platter now spins as it did on the old Technics DJ[…]

Finally, after a very very long wait, PioneerDJ stepped up to the plate and solved the issue they have had with the USB sound card function of the DJM 2000 / DJM 2000 NXS mixers.[…]

Shinola was… and I quote from Wikipedia: …a defunct American brand of shoe polish. The Shinola Company, founded in Rochester, New York in 1877 as the American Chemical Manufacturing and Mining Company, produced the polish under[…]

So Ortofon have upgraded their famous all powerful Concorde pickup. It has been around for very long. I have used a Concorde since I first started DJing. There are  5 cartridges in the series, one[…]

The Pioneer DJ DJS-1000 was announced last year, on the day before Amsterdam Dance Event started in October. Obviously I had a chance to fiddle a little at the Pioneer DJ showroom at De Backe[…]

Ok, This one deserves re-post. Since upgrading my Mac OS X to 10.3.2 (and now also 10.3.3) I cannot recognise the DJM-2000 Nexus (affects also the DJM-2000) as an input device on my computer, which[…]

So PioneerDJ has now also release a recording app for us all to be able to record our DJ-sets. To me it seems more useful in a live situation – at home I would run[…]

Technics SL1200/1210, the turntable of choice for all DJ. Or is it? Well in my opinion, it is not a very nice turntable to play on. I particularly do not like the border of the[…]

Some days ago SVT , the Swedish public service TV had an news report about the swedish vinyl press machine manufacturer Pheenix Alpha and the gaining popularity of buying vinyls. The company Pheenix Alpha is located in[…]

OK, so the walkman has been dead for a while and mp3-players like the IPOD are fashionable outdated.  Streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal or others, on our smart phones or computers have replaced[…]