Jazz heroes by Francis Wolff
Francis Wolff(1907 or 1908 in Berlin, Germany – March 8, 1971 in New York City, United States) was a record company executive, photographer and record producer. After a career as a commercial photographer in Germany, Wolff emigrated to the United States in 1939. In New York his childhood friend Alfred Lion, had co-founded Blue Note...
MPC on the Fly for iPad
AKAI MPC Fly MPC Fly merges unmatched Akai Professional technology with the power of your iPad 2, embodying legendary capabilities that have made the MPC an industry standard like real MPC pads, MPC Note Repeat and MPC Swing. Its multifunctional, double-hinged design gives you the flexibility to produce tracks anywhere, while also acting as a...
Jimi Hendrix Anthology
West Coast Seattle Boy 180 gr 8 vinyls box Elaborate box sets for many rock and roll legends boil down to repackaging the same music you already own. West Coast Seattle Boy doesn’t suffer from the same shortcomings, since it isn’t a collection of existing albums at all. Instead, fans of Jimi will discover 45...
Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology
Miles Davis and John Coltrane are those guys with the Blue albums. Cannoball Adderly — now wasn’t he a famous dare devil? If this sounds like your internal monologue on the subject of Jazz, then we strongly suggest reading Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology ($100). Like the college course you should have picked over econ, minus...
Blackmagic Cinema Camera
For a price less than the Canon 5D Mark III, Blackmagic Designs has developed a compact video camera with enough features and specs to set off more nerd alerts than a CES afterparty. 13 stops of dynamic range, a massive 2.5K sensor (refrigerated for cooling), 24-30fps, built-in high-speed SSD recorder that captures 12-bit CinemaDNG, ProRes...
DJTechtools Chroma Caps
Today I received some new Chroma Caps from DJTechtools located in San Fransisco. As you can see the caps fit perfectly on my Ecler Evo4 mixer and Native Instruments Maschine and X1. DJTT finally started selling these knobs after 6 months of research. And I have to agree with their promisses fulfilling all DJ needs....
Propellerhead Figure
Via: Proppellerhead website Create, for creativity’s sake World-class synths? Sure. Beast of a drum machine? Totally. But here’s what matters most: Figure is fun. Figure for iOS is designed from the ground up for the mobile environments we find ourselves looking to pass time. With major synth power under its hood, Figure sounds amazing too....
5 Free Max for Live Objects For Ableton DJs
Written by madzach on April 13th, 2012 Via: DJ Techtools One of the things that really sets Ableton Live 8 in a league of its own is the ability to create your own effects, instruments, and MIDI functionality using the extremely versatile object based programming environment, MAX/MSP. Suffice to say it has a notably steep...
The dynamics of street photography with Jez Coulson
World Photo London is just days away, packing a series of events and seminars as the Sony World Photography Awards are announced. Jez Coulson, a street photographer, wil be hosting a three-day seminar on the Economics of the Street. He speaks with BJP.
Canon launches groundbreaking camera to its Cinema EOS System delivering “film-like” dynamic range
In a raft of new announcements this afternoon, Canon has unveiled the EOS 1D C, the latest addition to its Cinema EOS system, supporting 4K video capture.