Well written, tech heavy, and one of the best writeups I've seen on ripping vinyl to USB high speed SD cards.
* And those were mentioned almost in passing, entirely not the point of the article, but so great to see!
I want to also tell the world about Techno-club.net. There's a ton of UR-related artists still making true-spirit techno. Fantastic selektors!
Avalon Emerson is such a great dj and producer. I’d love to see them live sometime - I’ve a great set from 2017 of theirs on SoundCloud that’s really eclectic. Love the style.
Ha fun to see this on HN! Love the approach she outlined here, though I’ve tried doing similarly but don’t have the time or incentive to invest in it just to play on my decks in my living room once a month haha.
(2019) English link: https://ra.co/features/3392
Why them, when you could pick...
Jeff Mills https://ra.co/features/3436
Fabio https://ra.co/features/3631
or even like Louie Vega https://ra.co/features/3338
I always get cinfused between Avalon Emerson and Aurora Halal
The art of USB-Jing
A few months on Hacker News there was a post about Mixxx[1], an open-source DJ software. It prompted me to download it and play around. It's very cool. Despite being a complete novice, I learned a few things after a dozen hours of playing around:
* I don't have a physical controller, but I can understand why people always use them. Keyboard and mouse are not fully sufficient.
* The built-in key and beat detection is really quite good for house music, and it gets you most of the way there in terms of managing song transitions (but not all the way there)
* A side effect of consuming 99% of all of my music from youtube and spotify means I have no local library to feed into Mixxx (I ended up yt-dlp'ing a bunch of stuff)
* There is a true art in song selection, and I don't possess this skill.
[1] https://mixxx.org/