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After careful consideration, and in an incredibly high-calibre competition, Joel Corry decided on the grand-prize winner of the #HeadNHeartDJChallenge. We actually increased the prize pot, such was the high standard of entrants! Here’s Joel himself to tell you who he picked… View this post on Instagram A post shared by Joel Corry (@joelcorry) […]
Every so often I cast my eye around to find the latest news in the world of DJ technology and bring it to the Heavy Hits crew in a nice neat package. Here’s what is going on lately… Serato Gets A Major Update Serato 2.4 Beta is out now, you can pick it up here. […]
For obvious reasons, it has been a relatively quiet year for new tech, and it looks like this trend is set to continue for some time… NAMM 2021 has officially been cancelled, to be replaced by a Believe in Music virtual event. The music trade event was originally scheduled for the week of Jan 18 […]
Every so often something comes along that just leaves you scratching your head thinking “how the hell does that work?”. Having a rotating plastic disc that you drop a diamond-tipped needle into, and the bumps in the groove convert into music. A smaller plastic disc with a load of 1s and 0s that you fire […]
There’s little doubt as to the major trend in DJing in 2020 – the huge explosion in livestreamed DJ sets. We’ve discussed this phenomenon here on the blog before, but some time on, things are gradually evolving. The most popular platforms for most people remain Facebook and Instagram, largely because that is where people have […]
This has been a relatively slow time lately for tech news, for pretty obvious reasons, but there’s some pretty cool new bits of kit and tech to report on! Up first – Numark have launched a pair of budget controllers, the two-channel ProFX and the four-channel Platinum FX. Both feature 6-inch jog wheels, 2 FX […]
Logic has long been a serious studio favourite, but in recent years (since Apple took ownership) has seemed a little neglected, and seemed to slip behind rivals like Ableton, with few exciting new ideas, and some relics of an old world such as the horribly dated EXS24 sampler holding it back. But huge news this […]
There’s been a couple of recent updates to the world of DJ Tech which are worth covering in the blog. First up, a brand new version of Pioneer Rekordbox is out, version 6. It looks a lot better, with far improved waveforms, but beyond that, this does seem to be a genuinely major update, and […]
In the last few years, I have got really into Stoicism – the ancient philosophy of the Stoics, such as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus. One of the themes in their teachings is that adversity is a chance to show character, and develop your good attributes through right action. Well… I didn’t really expect the […]
The world is experiencing a series of lockdowns and quarantines of varying severities, and club sets are pretty much a distant memory at the moment. The upside to this is that it is inspiring a lot of DJs to switch up their game, so they can share their musical selections with audiences in different ways. […]