Roberdo Raval – Hedonistic Freelancer

Wanna be a DJ? All you need today is internet access. PartyCloud enables you to mix more than 20 Million songs, including EQ, filter, FX, samples, and more features.

GöG created an ultra-minimalistic rotation sequencer with maximal functionality: New camshaftphone, cymbalmachine, flamemachine and fallball. It works as a hybrid machine with 11 trigger sensors and a couple of pedals connected to a sampler.

Funktion One founder Tony Andrews gives a speech about the crucial importance of our sense of hearing, how low quality audio affects the listener’s mind, the loudness war, distortion and how to save the world… by simply listening to good music!

Its been ages since I mixed down my last own production. But I keep interested in studio technology because again and again there is simply fascinating gear in this field. The controllers from Livid Instruments fascinate me especially because of their really stylish design made of polished aluminium and real wood. I cant help myself, they strongly remind me the gear from monome, who produced these kind of grid-matrix-trigger-pads long before the APC-Revolution. However, beautiful technology that will surely work out pretty well with the relevant software.

The multitouch display boom continues: From a haptical point of view this piece of equipment might require getting used to it pretty much, completely missing any knobs and faders. But concerning the show aspect, the Töken Experience is defintiely a very spectacular eyecatcher!

töken experience from yöyen munchausen on Vimeo.

Wicked, simply wicked!

 
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Wicked shit: This dude is really teasing out something from his gear! Even if he is part of a Vestax PR campaign- the possibilities of this digital DJ stuff are pretty stunning.
 

The days are getting shorter and shorter, the temperatures more and more uncomfortable, the piles of symbolic-shaped glucose products grow bigger and bigger in the supermarkets, the specially bored ones begin wondering what to to on NYE and I am serving you a first That Was 2009 review. Being basically a true nerd, I picked the Gartner’s 2009 Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies for this purpose. So now you can finally figure out what was really cool during this year…

It is decadence in its probably most ultimate form. But still it was so much fascinating for me when I randomly discovered this in a magazine yesterday. It remembered me those fascinating utopic visions in the computer game Final Fantasy, which I used to play on my Playstation 1 many years ago. But this one really happens: The Oasis of the Seas will be launched before this year ends and she will be the biggest cruising ship ever. When watching this video, keep in mind that it really is about a ship.

Dope Shit!