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We do our best to avoid “cute kitty with music gear” photos at Synthtopia. You can only get so excited about another shot of somebody’s cat peaking out of their Buchla modular synth or sleeping on their Korg OASYS.
Jaded as we may be, though, this is the cutest kitty DJ in the world.
Ohhhh, kitteh so [...]

DJTechTools has just announced a new MIDI controller inspired by classic video game systems, MidiFighter.
MidiFighter is an ready-to-assemble MIDI controller that features 16 game-style buttons and 16 programmable LEDs. It can be customized and expanded, too.
MidiFighter MIDI Controller Details:

Release Date: November 30th
Price: TBA
Plug and Play compatible device compliant midi controller
USB powered
Must be assembled (no expertise [...]

Amidio announced that Touch DJ (App Store link), described as the first full-featured DJ MP3 application on the iPhone platform, has been approved and is now available.
Touch DJ offers realtime independent manipulation of 2 MP3 files, including scratching, looping, positioning, equalization, effects and and pitching.
Touch DJ gets around the limitation of one set of stereo [...]

Goldie, who was taken out of his comfort zone of drum ‘n’ bass to conduct a classical orchestra for television, is here put back into his own world by Addictive TV. This time it’s the orchestra playing d ‘n’ b.
Who else would like to see their local orchestra take this on?
via VJTV

Thievery Corporation pt 1: Beyond the Monuments: Embedded was uploaded by: Current
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DJTechTools‘ Ean Golden demonstrates how he uses white noise “to create build ups and drama in your dj sets.”

IK Multimedia will present the first iPDJ Mobile Groove Event at Revolution Live Nightclub in Fort Lauderdale Fl, USA on November 20th, 2009.
The event will feature DJs battling and recording music live on their iPhones/iPods, using GrooveMaker and FourTrack apps.
After the iPDJ battle, there will be 3 hour-long DJ sets from Chris Domingo, Scratch-D of [...]

Vinyl record sales are soaring.
According to Nielsen Soundscan, sales of vinyl albums in 2009 have already topped the 2-million mark.
This beats 2008’s, 1.9 million, which means that 2009 sales of vinyl LPs are on target to be the highest since at least 1991, when Soundscan began tracking music sales.
Digital music sales aren’t doing too bad, [...]

First look: Vestax Spin DJ Controller with algoriddim djay Software was uploaded by: djaysoftware
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NI’s new Traktor Kontrol X1, up close and personal….