Hewlett-Packard wanted to showcase its innovations in the field of digital music by creating a digital mixing station for professional DJs. IDEO helped them design the Masher, an elegant and compact device that does away with the multiple turntables, mixing consoles, and dozens of vinyl LPs that analog DJs currently must haul to any event.
It had to happen eventually. First it was the the hard drive based Ipod, then the hard drive based camcorder, and now, the hard drive based turntable from Numark. The benefits are obvious. All of the versatility of a CD based turntable with fully indexable and searchable library of music. Oh yeah, it uses a real vinyl record on top to simulate the feel. It also reads CD’s. Amazing. No more getting your biyatches to lug your vinyl library that will probably get messed up from parties with the humidity of a South american banana republic. But then again, this thing probably costs the GDP of a small South American banana republic.
Will it see widespread acceptance? I guess we’ll see.
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The DVD that shows you how to glowstick, the awesome techniques of glowsticking, this 3 hour plus video DVD has a mixture of freehand and glowstringing (glowstringing having originated from poi.
Sporting an uber-cool site layout, Hed Kandi describes itself as, “the record label, radio show & international club sensation. In five years, Hed Kandi has evolved from humble beginnings as a compilation brand into the global phenomenon it is today. Hed Kandi’s popularity is attributable to the love of great music, & the urge to take it to a wider audience.”
An awesome and funny video you should not miss about a handy DJ.
All talk of melbourne shuffling aside, this is an informative article about the emergence of dance culture in the land down under.
Australia’s dance culture has arrived along quite different lines to previous Australian music movements. Although dance culture has been compared with the punk movement through their common element grass-roots expressions of culture, in Australia, punk tended to be an “invasion” of culture from abroad. Australia’s dance culture is certainly “derivative” as it evolved from and relied on changes occurring overseas, however the movement is part of a global network that feeds off itself.
Sony isn’t known for their turntables (well at least in the 21st century at least), but the CNET gives it a 6.9 “Good” rating. According to Cnet: “The good: Two-speed automatic turntable; push-button controls for start, stop, and arm lift; cast-aluminum platter; premounted phono cartridge, built-in phono preamplifier. The bad: Sounds decent enough but not up to audiophile standards; phono cartridge isn’t replaceable. “
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