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Pioneer announces its new CDJ-400 deck - a flexible, affordable feature-packed performance player for the aspiring club DJ to use at home. The CDJ400 allows DJs to play their MP3 collection off CD-R/RW discs as well as music from mass storage USB devices, such as USB keys, external hard drives and portable media devices.

On In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza, Dutch DJ Tiësto proves just why his music has become so popular. The album is 150 minutes of fluid, hypnotic mixing madness that at once stimulates your overworked brain and promotes a sense of deep relaxation.

THE DJ Mag Top 100 results are out and there's a surprise champion at the top this year, as Armin Van Buuren takes pole position after years of being the runner-up. The poll, which affects DJ fees and bookings, was voted for by a record number of people online.

Numark has introduce their new DMC2 Rack Mount DJ Software Controller.

The Chemical Brothers talk to Remix about their favorite old and new synths used on their latest album, We are the Night.

Four people were shot dead at a Carl Cox concert on Saturday in Venezuela after a gunman starting shooting in the crowd. There are reports on the web that nine people were also injured.

Ministry of Sound has terminated its license agreement with New Delhi-based Indus Renaissance Partners Entertainment Private Limited, which in February launched the London-based dance brand's first club in India.

University of London researchers, Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz surveyed a large group of Canadians to find out what the effect of piracy is on music sales. The results are surprising, at least, for the music industry.

As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl -- the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles -- is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary. Talk to almost anyone in the music business' vital indie and DJ scenes and you'll encounter a uniformly optimistic picture of the vinyl market.

An ecstasy lab was found today in the garage of the same house where Toronto police discovered a marijuana grow-op last year.

For those out there who still believe that 5.1-channels of audio can be wrapped around your two ears in a single set of cans, say hello to Panasonic's RP-WF5500.

DJ Tiësto’s image in South America has been tarnished by a drugs scandal after police caught two men with 5.4 grams of crystal meth and over 80 pills at his concert in Santiago on 5th October 2007. The scandal has given the electronic music scene and Tiësto a bad image in a country that is not used to having theses types of problems (at least not openly).

The term 'subtractive synthesis' refers to the sound generation method used by many modern software synths, as well as all analog synthesizers – new or old. The fundamental principle consists of taking a sound source, called an 'oscillator', then feeding that signal into a filter. The filter then subtracts frequency content from the oscillator signal, allowing it to be made brighter, duller, squeakier, and so on. After the filter, the overall volume of the resulting sound can be adjusted to create percussive sounds, long swells, and so forth. If this sounds too complex to grasp, fear not. The secret to understanding subtractive synthesis lies in comparing it to other, more familiar, concepts from the DJ world.

Yamaha is set to release a new digital music player for DJs who love to exercise. The BODiBEAT MP3 Player, which will be released in limited quantities, actually beat-matches your music to your excercise pace. No, we’re not kidding you…

Just a few months after it deemed it suitable to reinstate a levy on digital audio players, the Copyright Board of Canada looks set to to stir things up once again, with it now ruling that music downloads should be taxed as well.

Prince freed himself from record labels years ago. Paul McCartney, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have followed. Now the Material Girl appears to be kissing her big-name record company goodbye for a cool $120 million. Could U2 be next?

DJ Times has just announced its Top 100 American DJs. Top 5 in the list are: George Acosta, BT, Bad Boy Bill, DJ Boris and DJ Skribble

To celebrate the launch of O2's exciting new Cocoon handset, fast rising DJ and producer Patrick Hagenaar will play a 30-minute set in the Baby Box room of the world famous Ministry of Sound nightclub, using two of the exciting new handsets in place of regular decks or CD players.

As boss of one of the hottest labels in house music, you’d have thought Hatiras would be happy with his Blow Media empire. But alas, he’s still intent on world domination. His new offshoot label Hatrax has just launched and its debut release is the crazy funky house track ‘Rock Da House’. Beatportal caught up with label boss Hatiras in Toronto, Canada to find out more about his new label.

With the passing of James Brown late last year, Berlin's superstar DJ Paul Van Dyk might now assume the title of hardest-working man in show business. Or in any event, Van Dyk and his flight cases certainly have amassed the most frequent flyer miles of any entertainer.

SpiralFrog, the badly named, ad-supported music and video download portal has gone live today after months of beta testing, or so we're told. The site allows users to legally and freely download media from a catalogue of over 800,000 songs and 3,500 videos

Bose has unveiled The Computer MusicMonitor, a small computer speaker system for producers and musicians. The Computer MusicMonitor system consists of two ultra-small speakers that Bose claims will deliver a neutral, full range of sound utilzing new technology that produces profound bass without a subwoofer.

Korg has introduced two new DJ mixers with features from its Kaoss line of effects controllers. The new KM-402 and KM-202 KAOSS Mixers merge the effects and revolutionary interface from the KAOSS PAD, six different types of EQ, and an adjustable crossfader curve.

Don’t be put off by the ‘rave’ tag in the title of this compilation album, as within lay some real gems from the early years of harder edged dance - including several timeless classics that set the blueprint for the trance, hard dance and hardcore scenes as we know them today.

We’ve seen portable turntables. We’ve seen USB turntables. But a Portable USB turntable? That’s just crazy talk