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Paula Koski, who was born in Finland but now lives in Berlin, specializes in fast-paced, groovy techno—and you can hear her play out at Tresor, where she DJs regularly as a resident, or at Berghain. Her first production, true to her chosen style, recently saw the light on Soma Records. Her journey towards music began […]

Those madlads at Pioneer DJ (aka AlphaTheta) did it! After years of speculation, fan-made concept art, and wishful thinking, the company dropped the PLX-CRSS12 on the unsuspecting DJ community – and turntablists and hip-hop DJs collectively started salivating. Finally, there’s a turntable capable of playing vinyl with built-in DVS control without the need for needles, […]

Pioneer DJ, under AlphaTheta Corporation since 2020, plans to launch new products branded as AlphaTheta this week. What could explain it? It alludes to a possible contractual end to using the Pioneer name or the desire for a fresh identity unassociated with Pioneer’s financial struggles. The post Pioneer DJ to AlphaTheta: 8 theories behind this […]

AlphaTheta Corporation, the parent company of Pioneer DJ, has unveiled its latest venture – the AlphaTheta brand of music products, set to make its debut this week. Operating side-by-side with Pioneer DJ, AlphaTheta will introduce a range of cutting-edge music products, commencing with the launch of some exciting new offerings. This development comes on the […]

The intention of DJ Tara, a resident of New York, is too “amplify artists and uplift the crowds,” she says—through a collage of soulful sounds. She came into music through her childhood, learning from her father, and in particular she fell in love with hip-hop. But through party promoting she decided she wanted to try […]

For more than a decade, British producer Samuel Kerridge has been carefully turning techno inside-out. Through his releases on labels including Blueprint, Contort, and Regis’ Downwards, where he’s found a home, Kerridge has earned himself a reputation as an outlier, a renegade producer who dismantles any preconceived notions of electronic music, placing them in an […]

The DDJ-REV5 is a revolutionary scratch controller by Pioneer DJ, designed to usher in the next generation of DJ performance. This two-channel unit is tailor-made for open-format DJ performances, offering a range of enhancements that cater to the needs of turntablists and open-format DJs. The controller boasts enlarged platters complete with a vinyl-like texture, providing […]

Pioneer DJ has finally made a hybrid DVS controller and vinyl deck The post PLX-CRSS12: Pioneer DJ finally made a hybrid turntable + motorized DVS controller appeared first on DJ TechTools.

A fresh firmware update – version 3.0 – arrives for Pioneer DJ’s CDJ-3000s today, and with it comes the ability to stream tracks right from your Beatport library. A new StreamingDirectPlay feature has been added, which allows users that pay for a Professional or Advanced subscription plan to play tracks from their Beatport library on the gear. […]

Growing up, Kareem Ali—a native of New York who now lives in Tucson, Arizona—wanted to be a rocket scientist and his first musical love was jazz. He found an early hero in Miles Davis, whose seminal Kind of Blue LP prompted Ali to pick up the trumpet back in middle school. More than a decade […]

AlphaTheta Care – it’s a mouthful of a name, and it sounds familiar on first glance (hello, Apple Care?). It’s the new gear protection program for Pioneer DJ products that its parent company announced yesterday – an additional layer of security available on top of the brand’s standard one-year warranty offering. Choose your plan: Pro and Pro+ […]