Tonight I went to the Traktor 2 Launch hosted by Store DJ at their Brisbane store in the Valley.

Presented by Jason Hearn a.k.a. JaseFOS (NI Product Specialist, CMI Australia) and DJ Kuya (Store DJ), the event got off to a rocky start and not the best sales pitch by saying how easy and awesome the new Sample Banks are in T2 and then failing to get the demo working and even later when trying again it was a poor demonstration. I hope it was just first time demo jitters and it gets better in Sydney.

Jason Hearn did most of the presenting and it's unfortunate he didn't just do more hands-on demos, as he talked about how he uses cue points to do quick jumps in his mixes, so it would have been nice to see him actually doing it.


Anyway, the event was about Traktor 2 and it was all about the new features such as the coloured waveform, which I'm still unsure how that's going to help but at least it looks pretty, right ?


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Here's the latest video from the forthcoming London Elektricity LP, this one titled Round the World In A Day featuring Elsa Esmeralda on vocals once again. Very rock pop orientated.

Check out the Official Video for the title track - Yikes!, which is off the forthcoming London Elektricity LP. Another top notch video, this time using the London backdrop.

Official Video for the latest London Elektricity and Elsa Esmeralda masterpiece - Elektricity Will Keep Me Warm.

Last week I received my Midifighter from DJ TechTools. What's a Midifighter you ask ?

A midifighter is a midi controller made up of 16 arcade buttons (slightly smaller than your standard arcade ones) on a light frame that connects to your PC or Mac via USB. This controller talks to your DJ software, in this case, Traktor Pro -- and with the aid of different mappings you can create something out of nothing.

Check out this demo video I did using the Deckalized mapping and below is the Instant Gratification mapping.