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Think of DJfindr as a modern-day marketplace for hiring DJs or a complete business suite for discovery and showcase. DJfindr is a modern marketplace for hiring DJs, built to make finding, booking, and paying a DJ simple, fast, and professional by streamlining discovery, communication, booking, and payments in one place. For hosts, it’s a platform to discover DJs [...] The post Find a DJ with DJfindr appeared first on DJ LIFE Magazine. View the full article

Some DJs get weirdly offended by the idea of other DJs practising. Falling back on set routines, rehearsing transitions, planning the run of a mix – apparently all of that makes you somehow less of a “real” DJ. I think that’s nonsense, and so does our tutor James Hype. He recently posted this on social … Continued The post Why Practising DJing Is Not A Crime appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

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“[For DSP,] PreSonus keeps things simple with a clean LCD display and straightforward navigation. The onboard presets include Front of House, Monitor, Speech, and DJ modes… [but it] also includes placement-based settings such as Stand, Monitor, and Bracket.” As a club DJ, one of the things I’m most proud of is being the son of a DJ. My father started [...] The post PreSonus AIR XD 12: For DJs Doing It All [Review] appeared first on DJ LIFE Magazine. View the full article

Phase has announced that its wireless control pucks now work natively with rekordbox over HID, so you can ditch the RCA cables running to your mixer and connect the receiver to your laptop with a single USB cable. It’s a free update for existing owners. If you’ve used Phase, you’ll know the appeal: the little … Continued The post Phase Adds Single-Cable HID For Rekordbox appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

Rock the Dancefloor!, the best-selling DJing book from Digital DJ Tips’ Phil Morse, is now available in a Danish edition. Published in hardback, it’s on sale online and in all good bookstores. The Danish edition contains exactly the same information, photos, and resource links as the English original, with fully translated diagrams, checklists, and more. … Continued The post Our Bestselling DJing Book Now Available In Danish appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

A club-inspired workflow, streaming-ready performance, and flexible music access in one compact system for the journey from home to the club. AlphaTheta has just announced the XDJ-AN, a new 2-channel all-in-one DJ system designed to make the transition from home DJing to club environments more intuitive than ever. Featuring a layout inspired by professional CDJ [...] The post AlphaTheta XDJ-AN: The All-in-One DJ System appeared first on DJ LIFE Magazine. View the full article

Ideal for DJs, nightclubs, bars, and more, the Fantasy FX brings imagination and impact to any setup. Eliminator Lighting, a brand of the ADJ Group of Companies, has released Fantasy FX, a compact yet powerful duel-effect fixture that combines a center beam with a circular halo of 288 RGB LEDs, delivering both focused wash effects and dazzling multi-colored chases. Ideal [...] The post Fantasy Island: Eliminator Lighting Releases Fantasy FX appeared first on DJ LIFE Magazine. View the full article

If you’ve learned to DJ on a controller at home, stepping up to a club setup can feel like being thrown in at the deep end. AlphaTheta’s new XDJ-AN is designed to smooth out that learning curve, packing a familiar club-style workflow into a 2-channel all-in-one system that works with USB drives, streaming services, laptops and even your phone... The post AlphaTheta’s new XDJ-AN makes the leap from bedroom DJ to club booth a whole lot easier appeared first on MusicTech. View the full article

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Built for modern DJ setups the new CDJ-1500X combines flagship-inspired features with cloud connectivity and a space-saving footprint. AlphaTheta has just unveiled the CDJ-1500X, a new professional DJ multi player aimed at performers who need the flexibility of a modular setup without sacrificing valuable booth space. Drawing inspiration from the flagship CDJ-3000X, the player is [...] The post AlphaTheta Introduces the CDJ-1500X, a Compact Multi Player appeared first on DJ LIFE Magazine. View the full article

AlphaTheta has launched CoBeat, a service that lets audiences send song requests straight to the DJ’s player. It debuts on the new CDJ-1500X, currently the only hardware that supports it, and runs through a Rekordbox update arriving shortly after the players. The DJ builds a request catalogue of up to 200 tracks in Rekordbox and … Continued The post AlphaTheta’s New CoBeat Lets The Crowd Request Songs appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

Mixo, the cloud-first DJ library tool, has added the ability to export your library straight to Rekordbox USB, ready to plug into Pioneer DJ and AlphaTheta standalone gear. In other words, you can prepare and organise your music in Mixo and then walk up to almost any club CDJ or standalone player in the world … Continued The post Mixo Now Plays Perfectly With Pioneer DJ & AlphaTheta Gear appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

Juno Download, one of the original DJ-focused music download stores, has closed for good. On Monday 1 June 2026 the site stopped trading without warning, replacing its storefront with a short farewell message and pointing customers towards rival stores. There was no countdown, no closing-down sale, and no advance notice to the DJs who had … Continued The post Juno Download Closes After 20 Years appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

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If you have ever looked into recording or livestreaming your DJ sets, you will have hit a wall of confusing kit and even more confusing marketing – proprietary boxes with their own apps, handheld recorders aimed at filmmakers, podcast interfaces bristling with inputs you will never use, and prices from under £30 to several hundred. … Continued The post Audio Interfaces For DJs – Cutting Through The Jargon appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

If you’re starting out, or coming back to DJing after a break, there are five habits that will get you good quickly – and most have nothing to do with gear. They’re about how you practise, what you play, and who you play for. Skip them and you’ll stall. Build them in early and your … Continued The post 5 Habits That Will Make You A Better DJ Fast appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

A new online mastering service called SetMaster Pro is targeting a gap the bigger auto-mastering platforms (LANDR, eMastered and the rest) weren’t really built for: full DJ mixes, not single tracks. Why does that matter? Well, the mastering tools you’ve probably heard of are built around a single piece of music: a producer’s finished song, … Continued The post SetMaster Pro: Online Mastering Built for DJ Mixes, Not Tracks appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

Howler Audio has announced the Howler recorder+streamer MK2, an updated version of its pocket-sized hardware device that now allows DJs to record a set locally while livestreaming to a mobile device at the same time. The original version was a welcome addition to the market, but it forced users to choose between saving a high-resolution … Continued The post New Howler MK2 Records & Streams Simultaneously appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

Spotify’s third-party DJ software integration has been broken for nearly a week, with users of Rekordbox, Serato DJ Pro, Serato DJ Lite and Algoriddim djay all reporting that their Spotify playlists show up as empty inside their DJ apps. The fault first surfaced on 12 May and at the time of writing it is still … Continued The post Spotify Down In Rekordbox, Serato & Djay appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

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Engine DJ has announced version 5.0 of its software, available today across both its embedded hardware OS and the Engine DJ Desktop app. The headline feature is on-board stems rendering on the Rane System One, which makes it the first standalone DJ system able to render stems without a computer. The release also rolls out … Continued The post Rane System One Just Got Onboard Stems Analysis appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

Serato has announced that Serato Studio, its DAW for DJ edits and beat-making, is now included as part of its flagship DJ software, Serato DJ Suite, at no additional cost. The change is live immediately for current Suite subscribers and licence holders, with no price increase on the Suite itself. For anyone already on Serato … Continued The post Serato Adds Studio To DJ Suite (So Why Not Add Pitch ‘n Time To Pro?) appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

Berlin-based Native Instruments, the company behind Traktor DJ software, has been bought by US music tech firm inMusic. The deal brings Traktor under the same roof as Akai Professional, Denon DJ, Numark, Rane, M-Audio and Moog Music, and also includes Native Instruments’ Kontakt sampler platform and the iZotope, Plugin Alliance and Brainworx production tools. The … Continued The post inMusic Buys Native Instruments & Traktor DJ Software appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

Landing regular DJ gigs doesn’t have to mean waiting for the phone to ring. In this free lesson from our Complete DJ Course, we cover two practical ways to find gigs nobody else is pitching for – including venues that don’t currently have DJs at all, and untapped time slots at venues that do. We … Continued The post How To Get Regular DJ Gigs appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

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Returning DJs make the same five mistakes in their first month back, every single time. After 15 years of teaching DJs at Digital DJ Tips – and watching tens of thousands of comeback DJs work their way back to the decks – I see the same patterns repeat. Two of these mistakes are about the … Continued The post 5 Mistakes Returning DJs Make Every Time (& How To Avoid Them) appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article

Mixware brings back the original Crane Stand Plus, reissuing the iconic folding design that helped define the modern DJ booth setup. Mixware LLC has announced the return of Crane, the brand widely credited with pioneering the folding DJ laptop stand long before they became standard gear in booths and studios. Relaunching under the Mixware umbrella, [...] The post Crane Returns: The Legendary DJ Laptop Stand Is Back appeared first on DJ LIFE Magazine. View the full article

As VirtualDJ software actually works with pretty much all DJ gear, every year I ask the boss of VirtualDJ the same question: which five controllers do you reckon work best with your software? He has skin in the game, he knows the mappings inside out, and his picks go straight into our annual Gear Guide … Continued The post VirtualDJ’s Top 5 Controllers 2026: Hits, Misses & Maybes appeared first on Digital DJ Tips. View the full article