Often times new producers have gained their first buzz by posting their own fresh remixes of well-known tracks on soundcloud or YouTube, a la Madeon or Zedd.
Welcome to Beatport’s Play (play.beatport.com).  Beatport has begun to streamline this process, working with popular artists to provide “stems,” from their tracks, holding remix contests. Play could easily become a highly successful venture, and become the leading platform for the publication of remixes.
Beatplay’s main concept is to hold remix contests for budding producers and give them a legal and accessible way of sharing their …

On the NAMM 2012 floor at the Numark booth, DJ Tech Tools took quick looks at both the new metal-plated 4Trak controller for Traktor, and an early prototype of the MPCDJ designed in collaboration with engineers from Akai.

Spring 2012 will bring another major innovation from the team behind TRAKTOR. In this exclusive preview, you can take a sneak peek at the new TRAKTOR software and controller — and the birth of a groundbreaking new workflow. Stylish multi-color pads trigger loops and samples, allowing for on-the-fly remixing. Watch the video and see how a DJ set can become a powerfully creative live performance.
More info coming very soon: http://www.native-instruments.com/traktor
This performance uses Loopmasters sample content from the following titles :
Lynx – Eclectic Drum And Bass
Kanji Kinetic Presents Drumstep & Mutant …

Alright, listen up guys. If you are reading this and own or work for a company that manufactures music gear, THIS is how you demo your gear!
Jeremy Ellis demonstrates his amazing finger drumming skills on the Maschine Mikro. Seriously, this is almost beyond words. If you want more info on the Maschine Mikro, click here. If you want more videos of Jeremy Ellis, click here.
PS, does this guy remind anyone else of the crazy dubstep wedding DJ?

Also check out this additional video, highlighting even more of the new Maschine Mikro:

There’s an interesting debate going on right now over at /r/electronicmusic, about the live setups of Daft Punk, deadmau5, and Skrillex. The image (shown below) compares the live setups of each artists and is intended to point out that Daft Punk’s looks like the cockpit of the space shuttle and Skrillex’… Well… Is equivalent of an iPod on shuffle.
It’s pretty amusing, and brings up a good point – where do you stand on this?

Good ole Ean Golden from DJ TechTools has uploaded a video on controllerism essentials. From the sounds of it, this may be a new running series so we’ll probably see more videos coming soon. First up in this series in Ean’s tutorial on basic beat juggling. Perfect for newbies to controllerism!

Everybody in the digital DJing and controllerism world knows that something HUGE is about to happen in just two days – the release of Native Instruments’ Traktor 2! Thousands of people are eager to try out the slew of new effects, and to show off the program a little more, NI have uploaded a video of legendary DJ Craze having some fun with the new software.

Video info:
When it comes to matching the hottest technology with world-class turntablism skills to produce next-level routines, Miami’s own DJ Craze is the ultimate choice.
In …

Michael Sifeldeen apparantly has some tricks up his sleeve and this video demonstrates just  few of themt. He states on his Vimeo page that he has a surprise coming for us, but makes no mention as to what it may be.
In this video, he has his grayscale 128 set up to loop samples from Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites from Skrillex. I like what he has so far and it will definitely has potential once it’s cleaned up. What we are watching here could very well be the future of …

San Francisco entertainment blog SF Weekly has published an article with their votes as to who the best dubstep DJs are. Their nominees are DJG, Babylon System, Spit Brothers, and Kozee.
I’m not sure if this makes me a dubstep noob or not, but honestly I’ve never heard of any of these artists. Seriously though, these are the best dubstep artists? What about Benga, Skream, Caspa, Excision, Datsik? Maybe there is something I don’t understand…
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When the iPad was released, my initial thoughts were: “So what, it’s a huge iPod, right?”. Well now that developers have had some time with it, I have been really impressed with what I have seen lately.
The iPad Mixr is essentially a virtual DJ controller and mixer. From the website:
DJ App for iPad. Feels & functions like authentic turntables. Mixr gives you a DJ experience unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. Beautiful interface, professional mixing.
I’m impressed, but I’d really like to hear what the pros have to say after …