Alphatheta just announced their XDJ-AZ – it’s an all-in-one standalone with four decks built into the unit. In this piece, I’ll share some of the details on the unit and offer a few first impressions ...

Meet Aslice: a tool founded in 2022 by DJ + producer DVS1 that aims to equalize the economic disparity between touring DJs who earn fees from their gigs and producers whose tracks they play. The ...

Those madlads at Pioneer DJ (aka AlphaTheta) did it! After years of speculation, fan-made concept art, and wishful thinking, the company dropped the PLX-CRSS12 on the unsuspecting DJ community – and ...

After teasing its release last fall, Ableton has released the new Ableton Live 12 software – available for purchase on the company’s website and downloadable via your Ableton account if you’ve ...

It’s been about eight months since Native Instruments announced the Traktor Pro Plus subscription in August 2022. Traktor DJs hoping for new hardware or some next-level software features instead got ...

The latest in the DDJ-FLX series from Pioneer DJ has arrived: the DDJ-FLX10, a 4-channel controller for rekordbox and Serato DJ Pro. With the expected timeline of a late March in-store availability, ...

In the 2020s, it seems that everything costs a monthly fee, and everything is connected to the cloud. For better or for worse, DJ software is no different, with the advantages of cloud storage, music ...

Well, here we are – closing in on year two of this global pandemic. Are you as over it as we are? Looking back at 2020, one of the defining movements of DJing was the overwhelming adoption of live ...

Spinning platter controllers and players made an unexpected comeback in the last few years. While the Numark NS7 had enjoyed three different iterations, it was always a niche product and was never ...

It seems that you may have enjoyed my last entry on the weird DJ gear out there, so I am back with a few more items that may have been forgotten through the eons of time. Today, we’ll explore four ...

Rane DJ is no stranger to DJ collaborations. Back in the 2000s, they released the Grand Master Flash edition of the Empath. In 2012, they released the Z-Trip edition of the Sixty-Two. Now, in 2021, ...

Editor’s Note – Over the years, we’ve seen a wide array of attempts to create DJ hardware intended to be the next “big thing”. There was, undoubtedly, much trial-and-error; many companies went for it, ...