Sound Features & Tips

Pioneer Dj turn of a new era

So rumours started to fly in the past week that the Pioneer corporation was selling off its Pioneer Dj division, for a couple of days this was thought to be a hoax , but it seems the ink has been put to the paper and Pioneer is selling off its “Pioneer Dj” section to investment equity company KKR for a cool $551 million US dollars, while Pioneer corp. shares are sold they still will maintain 15% of shares and voting rights equivalent in the exchange of the brand naming being kept “Pioneer Dj”.

What is this!!! DJ License ?

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The issue of a Dj license has been a buzz now on social networks for the couple of days here in South Africa with many comparing it to the Etoll scandal to swindle money from Dj’s pockets , the truth of the matter is that this License that people are discussing has been around for more than a decade, hell it’s been a part of the teaching module within the "Multi-Racial Records UMI Dj course” which is taught in our urban music institute since the instute’s inception eleven years ago , It's just that people have been plane ignorant to the fact that it exists much like majority of South Africans are ignorant to their traffic fines until they get caught.

10Ways to BEEF up your sound

In todays times music, can be made on a whim from your mind straight into the box(computer) yet you find it difficult to get your sound as close as possible to all the urban music tracks around or even as close as possible to the pros , here is couple of tips to help you along the way to get that sound as phat as possible.

What's the Key Dj tip

Extracted from the Multi-Racial UMI Advance Dj course...

Mixing in musical key/Harmonic Mixing is something that lots of DJs vaguely know they ought to have a go at. Top DJs mention mixing in key, and many commercial mix CDs use key mixing. In some scenes, like trance, where the melodic content of music is really important, mixing in musical key is quite widely accepted; and for all DJs, it can make your mixes smoother and more professional-sounding.