Thanks to Serato Scratch, digital material was able to feel old school, and thanks to Ableton Live, the possibilities of making something different in live shows grew widely. But now, the great qualities of each product are joined, since the companies announced a "creative partnership" between their most famous products. DJing evolution is unstoppable.
Internet platforms and labels didn't stop making alliances after the launch of the new site MySpace Music. And now it's YouTube's turn to allow its users to purchase online the tracks which videos they are watching at the site. How? By clicking on an icon users will be able to buy tracks via iTunes and Amazon.
All the music is already on YouTube. Under this premise, the first great successor of
Muxtape was created from the open source platform
Opentape. Its name is
Mixtube and it consists in a tool to create and listen to playlists from the million videos stored in the biggest online clip collection. Create yours!
Poor
Muxtape. Though it was very practical and aesthetic, it came to its end. For those who regret its disappearance and the disappearance of our tracklists, a new platform has arrived: Opentape. It is
a web application to create mixtapes, but this time each user must upload the tracks to their own web server.
The famous Gnarls Barkley's song has a new version. Like an Ennio Morricone-style dirge recorded by The Mamas and The Papas, Violent Femmes' cover is like nothing you have heard from the band before. It is so somber and otherworldly that they called it "Violent Crazy". It will be released in .mp3 format and in vinyl on June 24. Listen to it and compare it to other covers of this stainless hit.
The debate between vinyl record defenders and those who definitely favor CDs and mp3 cannot stop the technological development of DJing tools. An example of this is the Attigo TT turntable, a tool that works with touch screen technology created by Scott Hobbs.