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OT: Electronic Arts has introduced the latest in its series of Sims games - The Sims DJ.
The Sims DJ is a $5 iPod Game for third-generation iPod nanos, fifth-generation iPods, and iPod classics.
Description:
The Sims DJ lets you create a Sim character, play, mix and scratch songs from your iTunes library to make crowds of Sims dance, and move [...]

Trailer for a movie, Shoot the DJ, about the trials and tribulations of trying to survive in the music industry in the 21st century.
Description:
Two DJs take steps to keep the money rolling in while an unexpected hit sends them into hiding… Currently in production, the movie is based on real characters.
Sean, Dan and Rick run [...]

Audio Damage has introduced Kombinat - described as “a complete toolbox of sonic warfare” and “the single most annihilating effect available today.”
Description:
With seven different options in each of the three distortion engines (plus pass-through), Kombinat is capable of sophisticated and unique sounds. Want to add a ring mod to the low end, a mild saturation [...]

DJ Ruthless Ramsey rocks the decks
Somebody forgot to tell Ramsey that decks means “turntable” in DJ lingo, though!
You can see more of Ramsey at his MySpace page. 
via Califaudio

Gadget.Brando.Com.HK has a DJ Plasma Light that reacts to music to create an interactive light show.
They are super-cheap - $18. Cheap enough to tempt me to get several.
Let me know if you’ve used these and, if so, what you think.
Features:

DJ Plasma Indication Tube
ON/OFF power switch
Lightning or Music/Sonic switch
Music/Sonic with Line [...]

The ATTIGO TT is a futuristic DJ controller, created by Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University studying innovative product design.
He’s created a touch screen turntable that’s pretty f****** awesome! It lets you loop, sample and scratch wave forms just as you would a record. The size of the touchtable is approximately the same as [...]

Today Intelligence has announced the official launch of DJ Intelligence Version 6.0, a service for DJs that allows them to add interactive client booking and event-planning tools to their existing Website.
Version 6.0 adds:

the ability to display song lyrics for any song in the DJ’s music library with a single click
the ability for DJs to [...]

If you’re interested in an MPC, get ready to drool.
Akai is shipping the MPC5000, the MPC they call “the most advanced MPC on the planet.”
It offers 8-track streaming hard disk recording, a 20-voice, 3-oscillator analog synthesizer with arpeggiator, a new sequencing engine with 960 ppq resolution, pad and track muting and mixing, 64 continuous sample [...]