PIONEER DJ TOUR SYSTEM CDJ-TOUR1 & DJM-TOUR1 OFFICIAL INTRODUCTION

PIONEER DJ TOUR SYSTEM CDJ-TOUR1 & DJM-TOUR1 OFFICIAL INTRODUCTION

The CDJ-TOUR1 multiplayer and DJM-TOUR1 mixer take the professional sound quality of the NXS2 set-up and add the components needed to deliver that performance in large festivals and arenas. Both models have an ESS Technology 32-bit D/A converter to eliminate low noise and distortion and give a clear, crisp sound at scale. The DJM-TOUR1 is the first mixer to have a pro audio grade AES/EBU digital output, so you can connect directly to front of house – even over long distances – with no loss of sound quality.

The 13-inch, full-colour touch screens with built-in CPU give you effortless control: you can browse faster, grasp waveforms more easily, and do it all while keeping the crowd in your line of sight. And back-to-back DJing is a breeze, thanks to the DJM-TOUR1’s two independent headphone sections that let you monitor and cue tracks separately.

Omar-S to release new 12-inch on FXHE

Omar-S to release new 12-inch on FXHE

Desert Eagle is likely to land on the Detroit artist's own label in June or July.

Omar-S has a new 12-inch on the way.

Alex O. Smith's latest album, The Best, came out a few weeks back. The Detroit artist has wasted no time in releasing his next effort on his own FXHE Records. Desert Eagle is a two-tracker, and from the sound of the clips over on the FIT Distribution website, they continue Smith's penchant from stripped, melodic house. The record is likely to hit the shelves in June or July.

Tracklist
A1 Desert Eagle
A2 Cry Me A River

FXHE will release Desert Eagle later in 2016.

Audion returns with first album in ten years, Alpha

Audion returns with first album in ten years, Alpha

Matthew Dear will release the LP on !K7 in June.

Matthew Dear's first Audion album in ten years is coming out in June.

Alpha sees Dear signing up to Berlin label !K7. Most of the previous Audion records, including 2005's Suckfish LP, have come out through Spectral Sound. Dear also released an Audion compilation, Audion X, on Spectral in 2013. (Word of a new Audion also first surfaced at that time). The project's techno focus continues on Alpha, which clocks in at 13 tracks. The record sleeve was designed by Dear's longtime collaborator, Will Calcutt. You can hear clips of the LP over at Bandcamp.

Listen to album track "Destroyer."

Tracklist
01. Dem
02. There Was A Button
03. Gut Man Commeth
04. Traanc
05. Celestial Antibody
06. Destroyer
07. Suppa
08. Napkin
09. Bob The Builder
10. Sucker
11. Timewarp
12. Zunk Synth
13. Sicko

!K7 will release Alpha on June 10th, 2016.

Top 10 – Diamond D’s Favorite 45s

April 4th, 2016 will bring a very special edition of NYC’s all-45 throwdown, Mobile Mondays!Celebrating their birthdays, and in the mix with nothing but 45s, will be legendary Hip Hopartists Diamond D and Large Professor.

Originating from the birthplace of Hip Hop, the Boogie Down Bronx, Diamond D‘s introduction to the music world came in 1989 as the production side of his group Ultimate Force. Soon thereafter, he would embark on a solo career, rhyming on the track “Show Business” from A Tribe Called Quest‘s classic sophomore album The Low End Theory. Less than a year later, Diamond would release his own classic with his debut album, Stunts, Blunts, & Hip Hop (1992). Quickly racking up production and remix credits for the cream of the early to mid 90’s Hip-Hop crop, including Brand Nubian, House Of Pain, OutKast, The Pharcyde, and many, many more, Diamond established a reputation as a go-to producer for a sure-shot beat. Diamond has continued to release his own material and to produce and remix for others, achieving a rare longevity for a Hip Hop artist. As evidenced by the name of the super group he claims membership in, D.I.T.C. (Diggin In The Crates), Diamond has always been a representative for vinyl culture. Be sure to check out Diamond’s latest release, the instrumental compilation Dat’s That Shit! An Exclusive Collection Of Rare Instrumentals From The DAT Vault.

In preparation of this Mobile Mondays! birthday celebration, we caught up with Diamond and he gave us a breakdown of 10 of his favorite 45s!

S.O.U.L. – Soul (Recorded Live)

Funk to the 10th power. S.O.U.L., one of the tightest b

Festival Forte adds Drumcell, Ancient Methods to 2016 lineup

Cabaret Voltaire, Vril and Rrose are also among the name joining the Portuguese event's bill.

A new round of names have been added to the lineup for this year's edition of Festival Forte.

Pär Grindvik announces first album, Isle Of Real

Pär Grindvik has revealed details of his first full-length, Isle Of Real. 

The LP lands more than 15 years since Pär Grindvik's debut record, 2002's Shape. Soon after, launched Stockholm LTD, a label that's since become one of Sweden's most popular techno outlets. Isle Of Real will be the first album-length release on the label. The LP comprises ten tracks, most of which were sketched on the road over a period of nine months. Grindvik then took these sketches into the studio in Stockholm, where he enlisted Peder Mannerfelt as a recording assistant.

Stream album cut "Shine" below.



Tracklist 
01. Never Give In
02. Headland
03. The Marlton
04. Shine
05. Isle Of Real
06. Limits Of Real
07. Holy Nothing
08. Shelter
09. Tide Us Part
10. Changes

Stockholm LTD will release Isle Of Real in spring 2016.

Complete Kappa Futur 2016 line-up withe Marco Carola and Ben Klock

Raresh, Apollonia and Margaret Dygas will also play the two-day Turin festival in July.

Kappa Futur has finalised its 2016 lineup.

The festival's fifth edition will run across Saturday, June 9th and 10th, returning to the vast Parco Dora in Turin, northern Italy. New additions to the Saturday bill, which already features Ricardo Villalobos and Chris Liebing among others, include Marco Carola, Raresh and Margaret Dygas. Ben Klock, Apollonia, Ellen Allien and Nicole Moudaber, who goes back-to-back with Skunk Anansie's Skin, are locked in for Sunday, lining up alongside Sven Väth, Nina Kraviz, Carl Cox and more

Complete line-up for Sonar 16-18 June 2016

Barcelona's Sónar Festival has finalised its 2016 lineup. 

An additional 38 acts have been added to the bill, taking Tim the total to more than 150. Highlights include Underground Resistance'seline live band, Booka Shade, Eats Everything, Gerd Janson, Lafawndah, Jacob Korn and Ethiopian artist Mikael Seifu, who recently released the Zelalem EP on RVNG.

Omar-S presents new album, The Best - 31 March 2016

Great news everyone, Omar-S has revealed details of his next album, The Best!

News of the record first broke back in December, when Omar-S, real name Alex Omar Smith, contributed a three-hour mix for RA's 500th podcast. The LP will be Smith's fifth full-length release, and arrives three years after his most recent album, 2013's Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself. Like almost all of the Detroit artist's catalogue so far, The Best lands on Smith's own FXHE Records. It comprises 11 tracks, featuring collaborations with fellow Motor CIty acts such as Norm Talley, OB Ignitt and Kyle Hall. It's due to hit shelves on March 31st.

Astral Plane Recordings announces EP from Chants

The new label's second release lands at the end of April.

Astral Plane Recordings's next EP will come out on April 29th.

The label arm of the well-respected club music blog launched back in January with an RA Recommended EP from little-known UK producer SHALT. For the second release, the imprint has dug up another up-and-comer, Chants, who hails from Wisconsin. (He offered up a track for the Heterotopia compilation back in 2014.) Astral Plane says that The Zookeeper "continues our mission to push club music into noisier and more abstract territory," and sees Chants "turn his focus towards texture and rhythm," inspired by David Mitchell's novel Ghostwritten.

Cristian Vogel next up on The Tapeworm cassette label

The legendary producer has prepared a 90-minute 'Mist Tape, out later this March.

Cristian Vogel will release 'Mist Tape via The Tapeworm later this March.

Vogel describes his project for the experimental tape label, which has also issued cassette works from Fennesz, Pye Corner Audio and Stephen O'Malley, as such: "I found some talking books out on the street—someone was throwing them away.

Juan Atkins reveals Metroplex reissue campaign

Juan Atkins reveals Metroplex reissue campaign

Some of Atkins' early Model 500 records, along with a rare 1996 EP from Robert Hood's The Vision alias, are set to be repressed.


Detroit innovator Juan Atkins is giving new life to material issued on his influential Metroplex label, starting with some of his work as Model 500. 

Records from Model 500 formed the bulk of Metroplex's early output, back in the mid to late-'80s, and nowadays they're often hard to find. On Facebook, Atkins has called this the "first back catalogue repress," and fresh releases—on vinyl as well as digital and CD—of Night Drive, Sound Of Stereo / Off To Battle and The Chase are on the way.