Marcel Woods - Musical Madness August 2010 Podcast

Awesome podcast from the legendary maestro Marcel Woods!! This has been getting some serious playtime on my ipod~ Definitely worth listening if you are into trance or any kind of EDM ! Solid tracklisting indeed - Highly recommended!

Download or Listen to  it here

Tracklist:

1. mel tiera - seven sins
2. grube & hovespan - Conviction
3. Red Carpet & Hardwell - Allright 2010
4. tempo giusto - diesel (evol waves remix)
5. Weekend heroes - ne’x
6. ali wilson - shangri la
7. marcel woods - tomorrow
8. setrise & matthew nagle - Reckless
9. marco v - scenario (daniel portman remix)
10.chase the sun

Pioneer HDJ-500 Headphones?

Pioneer HDJ-500 Headphones

Announced here

I wasnt impressed at all by the HDJ-1000s, i owned one for less than half a year and the hinges broke. Since then i have bought the sennheisser HD25s and they have been AWESOME. These new HDJ-500 headphones seem to be aimed at the entry level, meaning they are pretty low-priced, but they look surprisingly solid and well-made! They come with two cords - one coiler and one straight, obviously the cord is removable so if you break the cord i suppose they are very easily replacable (much unlike the hdj1000s- nice headphones, poor construction!!) - looks like pioneer are listening!

RRP USD$125 in red, black or white -
the black one looks a bit like the HDJ2000 while the white one looks pretty cool - whats with the red one??? The black & red will be available November 2010 while the White one will be available in Jan 2011 (Oh man!)

Hmmmm... for that price they are very tempting!


Still waiting if the whole pioneer midi controller thing is true or a hoax...

Gear Whore: WHITE EDITION Native Instruments Kontrol X1

Ok before we all rush to hunt down one of these - these are custom one-of-a-kind-white-edition Kontrol X1's given to Pete Tong by Dubfire for his birthday. Yes, we are all jealous! You probably wont ever be able to buy one of these coz they are custom made - you can always take apart your X1 and spray paint them yourself tho :P

They should start making the Kontrol X1's in white - looks awesome!

Pioneer to launch 3 brand new products at BPM 2010?

Looks like Pioneer is going at full speed! according to pioneer's website - they are launching three brand new products at this year's BPM (UK) in October

Rumor has it that one of these products will be a.... Midi Player? With Traktor launching the Kontrol S4, and Denon launching their new range of midi controllers, its not surprising if Pioneer finally decides to launch their own! This is just a speculation by the way, but it would be interesting if its true! But maybe not :P


God knows, if Pioneer did make a good quality midi controller - things would get REALLY interesting! If they didnt - maybe they should?

Apple Ipod Touch 4G Released! Now who needs an iphone 4?

iPod Touch 4G : Everything iPhone 4 does (minus the phone)

  
Apple has just announced the all-new iPod Touch 4G - with iPhone4's supa sharp retina display, HD VIDEO RECORDING (low res photos tho - SHAME!) - and guess what? all this and its CHEAPER, slimmer and lighter than an iPhone 4. For those of us who already have a perfectly functioning phone (in my case i use the nokia E72 - The battery life on these is like IRONMAN on steroids!) but still gear-whoring/drooling over the iPhone 4 - We have a solution! 

Despite being called the i-Phone, being a "phone" hasnt always been the iPhone's main attraction. Its all about the apps, portable web browsing and entertainment. By the time you do need to make an emergency call you realise that your last session of multiplayer Quake for iPhone online just drained all the batteries. Oh Damn! Now you gotta hunt down a usb port/charger!

Now - We can just keep our old trusty phone (pick a phone with a very solid battery life!) do what they do best - being a Phone, and the iPod Touch can do all the fun stuff! This way if we had too much fun and killed the battery on the iPod Touch we can still make calls on our normal phone! And no need to worry if we have killed the reception by holding it the wrong way coz this aint need no reception! 

I really dont understand why the heck the camera takes HD 720p videos at 1280 resolution (niceee) yet only take very low res photos?? Ah well, guess you cant have everything, still...


WANT... ONE.... NOW...... 


Apple iPod Touch 4g Hands-On Review Here

4MidiLoop - Veeeeery nice full 4 deck traktor controller!

The 4MidiLoop...

Full 4 Deck control Traktor Controller - with access to all 4 effect units, 8 hotcues, and FULL control/transport of ALL 4 CHANNELS without layer - this is probably the most complete (minus any jogwheels) traktor controller that allows you to manipulate all the decks at the same time. Nice!

All this encased in an aluminum box and sprinkled with 5 (Yes - Five - omgwtf?) Pro X-Fades - thats the xfader and all line faders.

The price? EUR1300!?

Check out the tutorial page on the website link above to see the detail of each and every button and knobs on the controller - whoever designed this really did their homework! Pretty much everything you need to control in Traktor Pro, all laid out neatly with nice led feedback!

And below we have their demonstration video - a rather boring one honestly, they should have asked someone like Ean Golden or Shiftee or someone who can do some crazy 4 deck cue juggling (making use of all 4x8 hot cue buttons) and crazy fx...