Join DJ LIFE editor Jim Tremayne and Hazan Media Group President/CEO Shawn Hazan on Twitch as they visit with NYC DJ/Twitch personality Mike Marquez at 5 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Dec. 7. In addition to examining the latest developments in the DJ world, the three will discuss the recently launched DJ LIFE digizine and website, plus some exciting new moves at DJX, the trade show/exhibition that’s set for Aug. 8-11 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City. Since the lockdown, Marquez has delivered plenty of useful and entertaining content, plus some serious house jams, for Twitchers the world over.…
Author: Jim Tremayne
SoundSwitch, a leading manufacturer of DJ-lighting control software and hardware, has released Control One, a professional lighting controller and dual-universe DMX interface. Control One provides dedicated, tactile control over light-fixture color, intensity, movement, automated light shows, and FX. SoundSwitch + Control One bring music-synchronized light shows and the power of on-the-fly visual effect to the DJ’s fingertips. Control One is compatible with Engine DJ, Serato DJ Pro, Virtual DJ, and Ableton Link. Says SoundSwitchʼs Product Owner, Matt Watkins: “The Control One adds new functionally and improves the overall experience of controlling lighting while DJing. Following on from the release of…
The beat-mad throngs returned to the East Coast this past Labor Day Weekend, as the Electric Zoo: Supernaturals festival rocked Randall’s Island with a slew of top DJ/artists. Running on five stages from Sept. 3-5, Electric Zoo 2021 brought headliners like Tiësto, Alesso, Zeds Dead, Seven Lions, Kaskade, Illenium, and Steve Aoki, plus genre faves like Claptone, Andrew Rayel, Rezz, and Duke Dumont. Though the festival grounds remained only a tad wet from the week’s record rainfall – the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which took dozens of lives in the tri-state area – the kids poured in for New York’s…
After nearly 19 months of industry uncertainty, the DJ market returned in a big way as DJ Expo 2021 brought jocks of all stripes back into its community. Rebranded as DJX, the DJ Life-produced trade-show/exhibition filled the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City this past Aug. 9-12 with mobile entertainers, club DJs, streaming jocks and home-studio hounds. After missing its 2020 incarnation due to the pandemic, the show on AC’s famed Boardwalk delivered three days of exhibits featuring some of the industry’s latest technologies, four days of seminars, workshops and keynotes, and three nights of sponsored After Dark events.…