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Electronic and dance music has never been as popular as it is right now. Since it first emerged as a genre, there was always a patronising majority who thought it would be a fad that would go the same way as glam rock and disco. But electronic and dance music has grown, diversified, and evolved

Denon DJ has today officially announced a complete ecosystem of pro DJ gear and software including the flagship SC5000 media player, signalling a comprehensive assault on the commercial DJ booth, a space that has, of course, been dominated by Pioneer DJ for more than two decades. Read on for full...

The latest mixing plug-in from iZotope is Neutron, and in some ways it picks up where Ozone—the Boston-based company’s mastering software—left off. While iZotope’s Ozone has been widely used as a mastering and instrument bus plug-in, Neutron aims to assist us in solving some of the mixing

After some carefully crafted tweaking, Serato has finally taken the training wheels off Serato DJ 1.9.3, and opened the door to a synergy just waiting to be properly tapped: the ability to link across platforms (most notably with Ableton Live). Stalwart Serato fans will recall that Ableton Live

Pioneer DJ sells a range of DJ controllers suited to the home end of the market, so it’s not a surprise to see the company also launching speakers that would pair well with such controllers. The DM-40s, at a price point of around US$150 and sized to fit any small bedroom or “corner of