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Been looking for one for ages for my vci 380 and there are none around as far as I know. Other option is the mini innofader plus or the innobender but I read somewhere previously about the midi being affected by one or both of these so not 100% on which one is the best option.

You're not wrong. It's all about file preparation and getting that right the first time - audio quality-wise, folder storage, cue points and loops - once that is done correctly, you start seeing the advantages of djing that way. But there are a lot of times when it can feel like a real ball ache and the benefits are outweighed by the complexity, particularly when you could just be wacking a record or cd on and mixing it.

I'm working on the basis that it's all bollocks until there's a press release from Rane.

Shit, that didn't even occur to me - that would be awesome. I suspect the screen is going to be for fx of some sort, though.

Anyone thinking about buying an S9 might want to wait a little:https://djworx.com/revealed-rane-seventy-two/

I'm using an older version (1.7.3) and it's been fine for my use with a controller but with the latest version (1.9.6) they have made quite a few improvements for DVS users so that's the one to download.

I thought that was bollocks until the other day when I was asked by a guy from Baltimore whether I knew the Queen. He then asked me whether it was legal to own a handgun in England. It was a pretty short conversation.

I'm ebaying my turntables.

Seriously,though, he does look a bit ill these days. He was always slim but now he looks unhealthily skinny. Back to the main thread - The Fresherthans DMC routine for this year is a good example of the whole repetition thing. Obviously they aren't doing it to cover their mistakes though.

He's so ghetto.

'Sonic golden shower'!

Yeah, the production on that one is really nice and probably better than on Mecca and the Soul Brother although tune for tune it's not quite as good. Still a quality album though.

Fucking hell - nice one Flexinoodle! That is an absolute steal. Been following some on Ebay but haven't seen any that cheap.

I think you have to use the desktop site if you want to create a poll - at least, that was the way it worked for me. I couldn't see the same options on my mobile anyway.

This poll was inspired by the Mr Scruff thread. Just wanted to get people's views on beatmatching and how important it is to you all.

Fine words both, D00ban and Rock Well. I've seen Mr Scruff DJ a few times and each time he completely rocked it - great tunes, great programming and it flowed together so well that it felt like he was mixing everything (and I would argue that he was) even though he didn't beatmatch everything. I remember him putting together that Amerie track One Thing with Roots Manuva's Witness over the top and it was fantastic. For me, beatmatching is one of a number of techniques to mix records together rather than the only one and if you don't agree, check out that Jazzy Jeff Boiler Room London mix and see how seemless it feels even though he probably beatmatched about a third of it. The rest were really nice segues featuring well-timed delays, echoes and other effects. I'm not saying that being able to beatmatch isn't important and it is definitely more important in some genres than others, but Mr Scruff is probably the wrong target because he is a really, really good dj whether he is beatmatching or not.

That's what you get for talking to Q-Bert. Joking aside, though, I agree with you. It's pretty shitty for someone to take your idea and pass it off as their own and I know I'd be mightily pissed off if someone did it to me. Whether that's 100% the case in the case of the Disk/Babu turntablist "controversy" is debatable (clearly), of course.

Yeah, he did. And that may well be exactly why Disk is taking offence at it. He definitely made it seem as though it was his concept that he had come up with by himself. Disk's story sounds legit to me but who really knows...

(In Donald Trump voice) Tupac and Biggie? Overrated!

The whole of Biz's first verse on "Just rhyming with Biz" and a lot of Erik Sermon's stuff. Both proof that you don't have to be the most technically adept MC to be a great rapper. And Phife had a lot of memorable lines that always got stuck in your head, actually more than Q-Tip. Like "When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?"

I remember that John Peel did a couple of shows with the Scratch Perverts as guests in about 1998 - had one of them on tape but binned all my tapes a couple of years ago unfortunately.

Oh yeah, and this of course:

Just found this: How to Breakdance circa 1984 - that's how we used to roll in the 'burbs.

Early hip hop memories part 2: I grew up in the South East of England, about 30 mins on the train into London, and breakdancing (as it was known in the not-so-mean suburbs of Cheshunt) was just becoming popular there in about 1984. In fact, I would have been completely oblivious of its existence at that time (I was only 7) had I not had an older brother who was 11 and who had some mates at school that were into it. But I had no real concept of it being anything other than a short-lived fad. I don't even remember thinking that it was a dance as it was just some acrobatics as far as we were concerned. The only music I remember being played that was in any way associated with it was Break Machine, which my brother had on 7 inch. I also have a (very, very) dim memory of visiting London around that time and seeing bodypoppers in Covent Garden. But there was never any connection made between that and what happened when rap started becoming popular amongst suburban kids in the early 90s. They were two very separate and unrelated things as far as I knew.

To be honest, I didn't get into hip hop till the mid-nineties when I was about 18. I had listened to some gangsta rap stuff a few years before that (NWA, etc) but wasn't really into it. Then I read a review of the reissued version of It Takes a Nation of Millions... in NME of all places. It said something like "This is the greatest rap album ever made" so I figured I might as well start there if I was ever going to get into rap. I was big into metal at the time and my first thought when I listened to PE was "there's not enough guitar"! My favourite track for a while was 'She watch channel zero' for that reason alone - goes to show how little I knew about how hip hop was made that I didn't even recognize that the riff was taken from Slayer and I was into them in a big way at the time. Anyway, listened to that PE album for the whole of the summer of 1995 and had memorised every word by the end. That was my introduction to hip hop.