Happy Birthday DJ Jazzy Jeff!
There’s a LOT of DJs out there, but few have done it as long, or do it as well, as the magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff. And today, January 22nd, is his birthday, so here’s a little Heavy Hits blog tribute to the great man! Jeff is a great example to any DJ out there – […]
Serato Celebrates 20th Birthday, and Serato x Phase collab!
Serato has been a fixture of the DJ landscape for 2 decades, and they have marked this anniversary with a special documentary charting the birth and development of their revolutionary product. It’s a fascinating insight to how they created it, and the resistance and snobbery that early adopters like Jazzy Jeff ran into from vinyl […]
Cloud Mixing – what does the future hold for DJs?
DJs have a strange relationship with technology. On one hand – without the technological innovations of pitch controls and direct drive turntables, would DJing have ever taken off in the way it did? It’s an artform entirely build around technology. On the other, any new tech today is generally greeted with a chorus of “THAT’S […]
Pioneer DJM-V10 Mixer Launch
We said it was that time of year because of NAMM, and here we go! Pioneer have unveiled a stunning looking new mixer, the DJM-V10 This looks like a serious unit, presumably aiming to become the installation mixer of choice for dance music clubs around the world, and with some fascinating features to cope with […]
Rane Seventy mixer launch, with amazing new DJ Craze routine
It’s that time of the year that DJs love – NAMM is here, and with it, all sorts of announcements and unveilings about incredible new DJ toys to play with. For a long time, the Pioneer DJM S9 has been the dominant scratch mixer in the market, but it wasn’t always this way – the […]
How to make your own scratch samples
One of the elements of DJing that is extremely important in order to stand out, but strangely under-used, is personalising your own scratch sentences. It’s never been simpler to do so – from TV & film dialogue, to acapellas, to even recording your own vocals, digital technology has made it really straightforward to make your […]
Denon release new flagship media players – SC6000 & SC6000M
Ahead of NAMM, Denon this week launched it’s new media players, the SC6000 and SC6000M (which features a motorised, vinyl-esque platter). Pioneer have enjoyed a vice-like grip on much of the modern DJ tech scene, but Denon are doing their best to make inroads, with some very well-respected products. These new players really look very […]
A Tribe Called Request – My Greatest Hits
It’s a fact of life for most DJs – they are going to get a lot of requests. Not all of them are going to make sense, many might be rude, and often there is no way to satisfy the person making the request without ruining the vibe you have created on the dancefloor. Some […]
2019: The Year In Music
It’s the time of year again, where we take stock of the year just gone, and look forward to the year ahead. And one of the big things for DJs is to look back at what the biggest hitters were in their crates, and on the dancefloors. Every year, we publish end of year charts […]
Hip Hop / R&B: Top Downloads 2019
Vol 1Our top 25 most downloaded Hip Hop and R&B tracks of 2019