Funky Sole is a weekly funk and soul dance party that goes off like a bomb on Saturday nights at the Echo on LA’s eastside. Resident DJs Clifton aka Soft Touch and Music Man Miles, along with a rotating cast of guests, bring an eclectic but highly danceable exoticism to [...]
Celebrities in Miami nightclubs are like kids in a daycare. You know they are there and don’t think much about it. Now the attention is back on what matters, the music. Clubs drool over names like Avicii, Afrojack and David Guetta. DJs have become the new celebrities in town and [...]
Hands up if you're reading this on a phone? A tablet? Are you at work? On a bus? You can do this because Crossfadr is made to be supported by multiple platforms - it'll look and behave much the same in Opera as it will in Chrome or IE; your [...]
The 2012 Grammys marked an important day in Dubstep and Electronic Dance Music (EDM) history when Skrillex took home 3 of the 5 awards for which he was nominated. Winning Best Dance Remixed Recording, Non-Classical for Benny Benassi and Gary Go’s “Cinema (Skrillex Remix)," Best Dance/Electronica Album for Scary Monsters [...]
Simon Cowell’s latest eighteen-carat brain fart, an as-yet-untitled X-Factor for DJs, promises to thrust DJ culture further than ever down the snapping maws of a tween populace old enough to sense the imminent delights of consumer gluttony, but young enough to be free of the cloying shackles of cynicism. Ever [...]
Numark announces the acquisition of Sonivox, a cutting-edge software company that specializes in developing premium virtual instruments and synthesis technologies for musicians, composers and producers. Founded in 1993, Sonivox has designed and developed innovative music software technologies and groundbreaking applications for desktop and laptop computers as well as mobile devices. Sonivox’s [...]
Acid House was first heard in Chicago discos during the mid 1980s. Like many things related to the genre, the origins of the name “Acid House” remain up for debate. One view is that the term was coined to define the electro-psychedelic sounds produced by the Roland TB-303, which was [...]
Controversial title, I know, but I stand by it. Not in a nasty way – geek is the new black, after all – and not universally either, but I maintain that more DJs these days are geeks than ever before. Partly that’s because there are so many more DJs today, [...]
Edison, NJ – Gemini, an esteemed manufacturer of DJ and Pro Audio equipment, is pleased to announce they are now shipping the CDJ-700, a groundbreaking professional DJ media player that incorporates the industry’s first full-color touchscreen display. The unit also features MIDI capabilities and supports playback from CDs, SD cards [...]
Common wisdom has it that musically, the ‘90s kicked in a year late with the release of Nirvana’s breakout grunge-rock classic Nevermind. While that may be true where mainstream arena rock was concerned, those who were inhabitants of club-land at the time are well aware that the ‘90s started right [...]