DJ Fast and Fluid

14/05/2024

UPDATE: Unbelievably I have been banned from the official Rekordbox group for making this post there. Apparently they took exception to me saying the release had been silent, claiming they had notified all channels before I made my post when in fact it was an hour later that they announced it. What an unbelievably crap company they are!

Rekordbox v7 has been silently released (guessing press release will go out shortly). If downloading be careful as there is a not very obvious "Add cloud option" switch which by default is set to "On" and means the "free" download turns out to be a £7/month subscription download. Switch it to off and then download and you should be good to go. Video below walks through the new features.

Dive deeper. Introducing rekordbox ver. 7, the latest version of our DJ software that brings a much smoother, more intuitive workflow to suit your DJ lifesty...

16/04/2024

Prepping next month's "How To Dance" Chill! Cheese! and Choons! mix and decided to test live streaming with MixCloud (which can replicate to FaceBook if requested). Good news is with an iPhone plugged into the USB on the DJM-V10-LF mixer it "just works". Great quality audio and video and no having to faff around with a laptop and OBS software.

BUT the app is supposed to display the track playing info, automatically extracting it from the CDJ decks as you live stream. It's garbage!

In the captured video below it shows the first track as still playing when the second track has started and the first has stopped. And then when you load a third track up it displays that as playing when it hasn't even been started (and I may decide not to go ahead and play it anyway).

The only way I could get the second track to show up as playing was to reduce the volume fader of track 1 to zero, but as soon as i move it above zero, even though it hasn't been started, the software says it's playing.

This makes the functionality useless! This is a massive disappointment. I've raised a support issue with Pioneer, but am pretty certain nothing will happen and they'll just say "That's the way it is".

On top of discovering that the sample length limit on the DJS-1000 sampler is 64 seconds NOT the 2 minutes 30 seconds their web site claims, I'm pretty hacked off with Pioneer/Alpha-Theta right now. Seriously thinking about contacting the Advertising Standards Authority over the incorrect specifications for the sampler. A 2.5 minute limit was pretty lame when you want to use whole song acapellas, but 64 seconds is even worse. Ugh!

Why can't stuff just work the way they claim it will before they take your money!

P.S. Dodgy video quality is not because of live streaming but because this is a screen recording of a stream that is being broadcast over wi-fi and then also streamed back down again using the same internet connection. And then of course Facebook f***s it up even more with its own compression.

06/04/2024

Celebrate 50 years of ABBA with new remixes you've likely never heard before. This Matt Pop release features many of his rare "bo**ie" remixes of ABBA that he's made available for a limited time. 320Kbps MP3 Magnificent!

https://we.tl/t-MkUiyjhLmQ

01/04/2024

And we're live a couple of hours early. My first mix in 8 years is now streaming on MixCloud: "My God It's Full of Stars" is the musical story of Dave "Bungle" Ovjoi and his melodic trance journey through space and time.
You can hear the mix and download the PDF booklet containing the associated story telling more of Bungle's adventures as he awakes from hibernation and heads for the New Found Land, over on my DJ web site at

I am still working on the web site, so please bear with me for a week or two. Some links and functionality may not work. My priority has been to provide a platform for downloading the PDF booklet for the first volume of Chill! Cheese! and Choons! The rest will follow!

01/04/2024

Others have reported that the latest Rekordbox has lost all their album art. I don't have that problem here, but I do have an issue that with this new release import and analysis no longer brings in the album art.

How hard would it be for Alpha-Theta to actually test this crap before shoving out weekly updates to keep fixing what they break in the rush to get yet another version out the door?

31/03/2024

DJ.Studio is a great tool for speeding up playlist creation although the price at £500 is too much. Fortunately there is an early purchase scheme of £150 which is much better value for money. And if you’re quick there’s a code for an extra £25 off for Easter which expires tomorrow (9am on Easter Monday). It looks like you need to download the fully functioned trial (which lasts 14 days) to get the email with the extra reduction code. Be quick!

31/03/2024

New promotional "business" card has been ordered from Moo.com

30/03/2024

DJ.Studio is a pretty amazing product for DJs who want to automate their playlist building and mix transitions. It even allows you to legally put together YouTube video mixes. I think it's too expensive at its normal price of £499 but the early bird launch price of £149 is good value. But, even better, if you download the fully working trial version (works for 14 days) you should get an email offering you an additional Easter discount so that you can make a lifetime purchase for just £125.

You'll need to be quick though as this additional £25 discount expires on Monday morning at 9am!

26/03/2024

YouLean Pro is the industry standard LUFS metering software for ensuring your DJ mixes won't get messed up by streaming services. It's free but the Pro version has some great added functionality and IT'S ON 41% OFF SALE UNTIL 7th April so you can get it for less than £30. Yay! A "Must Buy" in my view.

More info here: https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter-why-upgrade-to-pro/

26/03/2024

A week today, my first mix in 8 years will hit MixCloud. The plan is to have a new "Chill! Cheese! and Choons" mix on the first "Ch"uesday of every month.

Here's the track listing for the first mix: "My God, It's Full of Stars". A free downloadable PDF "Bungle Booklet" will be made available on my web site at the same time as the mix gets released, detailing the mix and how it was produced.