It looks like we’re only at the beginning of seeing the uptake of Wii as an input device for gaming. As it’s a bluetooth device there’s numerous hacks that tie it up to a PC. Businesses are capitalizing on this and developing immersive training experiences. Perhaps that killer app is just around the corner?

Wii and Second Life

Taking the basics of how the Wii could be used in Second Life, MIT research fellows have been…

ok, i had a million other things i was meant to be doing this friday, but hell - the rest of france ‘faire le pont’ (have taken an extended holiday after all soul’s day) so i can allow myself to get a little sidetracked.

back in the day i remember looking up websites that had wedged/notched diagrams showing you the basic structure of dance music and talking about getting records in tune. that was in…

hellishly expensive at over $2,500, but for some reason i keep getting drawn back to this piece of kit. designed with ableton and traktor in mind (they’ve included overlays and pre-programmed midi maps for both), the xone 3d seems to be about the only piece of kit that combines mixer, midi fader/knob controllers and jog wheels.

they are pro’s in the mixer market and have been working hard on the digital front (the xone:92 mixer…

So, you’ve got your beat-matching all figured out but occasionally still throw the odd clanger when trying to blend a couple of tracks. Chances are you’re putting one key on another that just don’t go.

Unless you’ve got Stevie Wonder’s ears, you may have a few problems trying to figure out what key a particular track is in. Fear not, oh digital DJ because now there are tools that can help you on your way.…

I thought I had already talked about this somewhere on this site but could find no trace. Apologies if this is old news.

These are the sites I generally scour in search of new music (primarily electronic, some indie):

Beatport: New house/techno releases

Bleep: More leftfield electronica - especially as this site is run by Warp records

MP3 Sugar/Legal Sounds: Run by future Russian music moghals

Lest you forget, the netlabels on Archive.org are ripe with fresh talent more interested in…

A little bit cheeky, this one. But if you often come across tracks you like on Myspace that you can’t download, try out this feature:

http://myspacemp3.org/

Thanks to Beatmixed for the heads-up on this gizmo.

It’s hard to find a steady path to tread between the nay-sayers and hyper-evangelists in this ever-changing world. Never more so than in the world of DJ’ing, where it appears, after more than 20 years, we could be coming towards the end of the 1210 era.

After vinyl: the CD?

But what will come next? While the Pioneer CDJ 1000 seems to be adopting the same position in the CD DJ market that Technics held with…