DJs Spinning Those Hard Drives

Mipmap writes "Ben Kirkendoll leaves the records at home in favor of his iPods, Apple Computer's disk-based music player, which he simply plugs into an audio system's mixer. He's part of a small but growing number of DJs who have turned to MP3 music files for their accessibility and convenience..."

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Video soon?

[Antity-H]

It seems that the digital revolution is reaching the last places it had not yet conquered, whatever the djs use to mix/beatmatch/... their mp3s, doesn't matter. I don't think there is any analog effect that can't be reproduced digitally. I hope the next revolution in djing will be more video oriented ... what i mean there is that if mixing/beatmatching/... all the usual dj stuff is made easier, Djs will try something more advanced in matching video and sound. I am aware of few djs actually doing this and even fewer doing something really complex with it . And yet if you ever tried to adapt your milkdrop effects to match songs you will know that the effect is really great. (even better but harder try it with g-force) milkdrop and gforce are winamp plugins but there are equivalent for xmms and others.