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Umbro kick off with World Cup shirts...

Go the distance this month as you celebrate and gear up to tense tournament action. These Umbro home shirts are super limited editions and flying out of Shotgun’s online store at fifty quid.

Designed by Altor Throup they are the exact same fit as the current England home and away shirts.

Designed by Numark in collaboration with Serato, NS7 represents the pinnacle of DJ performance control. NS7 combines an all-metal chassis with adjustable torque, motorized, aluminum-turntable platters, vinyl, and a professional audio interface to deliver a complete performance solution that will satisfy even the most hardcore turntablist. A full complement of premium faders, knobs, buttons and our new Strip Search (patent pending) virtual-needle-drop control integrates seamlessly with the included Serato ITCH software. NS7 delivers hands-on control of every aspect of Serato ITCH and sends data to the software more than ten times faster than standard MIDI resolution, resulting in a rock-solid hardware/software DJ system that works with Mac or PC and feels as good as it looks.

Serato ITCH is completely compatible with Serato Scratch LIVE crates, loops, and cue points, so the Scratch Live DJ can step up to NS7 without missing a beat.

Rekord Box is Pioneer’s digital answer to the vinyl cases that DJs used to lug around. In the fabulous old days of records, there would be a certain amount of prep that needed to be done in order for the DJ to rock up and blow away the crowd with their box of delights. Now, Mr DJ wouldn’t turn up at the club with his/her entire record collection because that would just be silly, and how many little helpers would be needed to cart all that around?

Instead, DJs would go through their collection picking out the tunes that would be appropriate for the night and arrange them either into set order, or mark up specific notes about the tracks, like ‘great vox’ or ‘big breakdown’, right down to BPM and key. With all this info and correct tunes chosen, they’d pack them into two or three ubiquitous record boxes, turn up to the gig and rock the discothèque. Pioneer have adopted this ideology — why would a digital DJ turn up to a gig with his entire hard drive of tunes, (potentially thousands of tracks) and then just hope that everything is sorted out, ready to play? In steps Rekord Box, a music management software application for preparation of a DJ’s digital music library.

What is Scratch Live?

Serato Scratch Live combined with Rane hardware is the ultimate solution for professional DJs, giving you the freedom to take your entire digital music collection on the road and equipping you with advanced features that add extra creativity to your DJing. 

This intuitive system replicates the traditional DJing experience for "real feel" usability and performance. With unparalleled performance, sound quality and stability, you'll soon see why thousands of DJs worldwide choose Serato Scratch Live.

Adapting to today's variety of media formats, the CDJ-2000 enables playback of MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF audio files from CDs and USB memory devices, and from DVDs and SD cards as well on the CDJ-2000. A USB port located on top of the turntable enables users to quickly connect an external storage device such as a Tonium Pacemaker™ or a hard drive packed with music files, minimizing the need to bring a laptop computer to performances.

The CDJ-2000 turntable includes rekordbox™, Pioneer's proprietary music management software that organizes and catalogs a DJ's entire music library. When music files are imported to rekordbox, the software analyzes each file and prepares them for use specifically with the new CDJ turntable. Key elements of Pioneer’s rekordbox software:

I've always been a huge Dizzee fan, right back to when I first heard his debut album 'Boy In Da Corner' which won him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Since then he has gone from strength to strength, with huge hits such as 'Dance Wiv Me', 'Bonkers', 'Holliday', and more recently His colaboration with Florance & The machine for 'Dirtee Love'. You may also want to keep a ear out for the upcoming Tongue N' Cheek LP reissue: the 'Dirtee Deluxe Edition'.

Stanton is a household name among DJs, but it has been a while since they took a foray into the scratch mixer market. Well, all that’s changing thanks to the arrival of their new Stanton M.207 mixer. The mixer that vinyl junkies and turntablists have been waiting for, the M.207 mixer is for the vinyl purists and CD junkies who are shunning the laptop revolution in favour of old school turntablism. Scratch friendly features include individual control settings for each fader (including the crossfader) such as curve and reverse, while the long-throw faders, balanced outputs and FX would make any bedroom or club DJ happy.

Users of Stanton’s DaScratch Midi Controllers will know just how responsive Stanton’s FXGlide touch sliders are. One of these is located bang in the middle of the M.207 mixer and provides sensitive real-time control.

The, Now Thats What I Call Music collection has been around for quite some time, and back in the day when I was on mobile discos doing partys, I cant think of any night where I didnt use at least one of the disc's. Volume 75 is now here, So, I wonder back in the 80s if Virgin/EMI thought this series would go on to be the success that it now is. If you want the most recent hits, and can't afford, or prefer not to buy single CDs or downloads, then this, like the ones before it, is the album for you. I must admit to being one of those people who love compilations, mainly because you can stick a disc on, and for an hour or so not have to go running backwards and forwards to change it.

Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) March 28, 2010 — © Atomix Produtions Inc, (http://www.atomixproductions.com) accepts the award for Best DJ Software (VirtualDJ Pro ©), the latest incarnation of its blockbuster software package for Disc Jockeys. By popular vote, VirtualDJ won this award over its competitors such as Serato Scratch Live, and Tracktor Scratch Pro. VirtualDJ is quickly becoming the industry standard for professional DJ’s who value versatility and ease of use, and want to perform advanced audio and video mixes. VirtualDJ 6 is currently the 17th most downloaded software application, of all software available, at CBS © Download.com.

“Every DJ around the world knows how important WMC is to our community, we are very excited and appreciative to have won this award, and it speaks volumes of our company’s future direction. We directly attribute this award to the input and participation we receive from our user base,” says Andrew Van Almen, Atomix Productions General Manager. Atomix Productions has also created the world’s first social network exclusively for DJ’s. This network gives DJ’s real time access to data, information, and suggestions, not only via the web, but also from directly within the program during live performances. The system can even make recommendations on what to play next, based on what millions of others DJ’s think, or, based on the data from the specific groups the user is subscribed too. It is truly a game changer and clear leader in innovation, as evident by this recent award.