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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]