Pioneer has released info about their new top-of-the-line mixer, the DJM-2000.  The two most interesting features at a glance are the evolved beat effects and inst fx.

Read more in the forum or on the Pioneer web site.

Each country will find its own DMC Champion, and the night will even crown the first ever DMC Nordic Champion.

If you want to compete, please mail denmark@dmcworld.com with contact info.

More info on www.myspace.com/dmcnordic and www.dmcnordic.com (opens March 15).
Each country will have 2 judges each, and the 2008 & 2009 DMC World Champion – DJ Switch (UK), will be judge no.7.

See http://www.speech.kth.se/~kjetil for more information.

Hope to see some DJBattle people there!

Our friend Laurent Fintoni over at Turntableradio.com announced a great schedule for the upcoming weeks:

“As mentioned a few weeks back on Rhythm Incursions we’re starting a series of weekly podcasts, lasting a month, featuring exclusive live audio from Ken One’s recent ‘Skratch Evolution 2‘ event. Held at Kichijoji’s Star Pines cafe, this musical evening featured a rather interesting mix of Tokyo’s underground music scenes with scratch DJs, producers and MCs coming together for a series of live showcases alongside some live painting. This was Ken’s second such event, up a notch from the first which was a more scratch-centered affair.”

The “WTK WORLDWIDE SCRATCH BATTLE 2010″ is an international online scratch battle.

That battle will carefully be judged by a professional jury.

The concept is simple:

Each contestant must download the WildStyle looper 3 ( http://www.myspace.com/wtkbattle / http://www.yourlooper.com ) which contains several beats, record a video set of 1min30 and then send a video of his performance using one of the 15 proposed beats.

Youtube and Beat4Battle forum will be hosting the videos of all participants.

Best sets will be rewarded with prizes from our partners. (Vestax, Serato, Pro-x-fade)

The promotion of the event will be done via several types of media such as websites, specialized press, blogs, specialized forums, webzines to make sure to cover the largest number of participants.

How to Sign up :

return the registration form duly completed at :

- wtkbattle@hotmail.fr

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Rules :

1 / Any Dj of any country can sign up

2 / Dj’s must have a scratch routine of 1min30s on the beat of their choice but it has to from the Wildstyle looper 3.

3 / The scratch routine must be video recorder in “one shot” and sent on youtube with the title and the following tag: WTK WORLDWIDE SCRATCH BATTLE 2010: DJ “YourName” before April 30, 2010.

4 / All post production work, video or sound editing will automatically result in disqualification.
However we’ll recommend the sound output to be recorded seperately for a quality purpose. Please make sure the recording is done under decent condition; Bad lighting/framing can be harmful to your performance.

5 / DJs will only use real vinyl or timecoded vinyl but no CD player, no effects, no instruments other than turntables.
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6 / The juges will award points to the dj’s of their choice based on technicality and musicality of scratches (3 points for first, 2 points for second and 1 point for third).

7 / Then the juges will have 1 week to discuss and do a final count of the votes.

8 / Good luck.

In april 2010, Rane is releasing their new SIXTY-EIGHT mixer. Judging by the data sheet, it’s aimed with users of the Rane Serato Scratch Live system in mind. The prime feature is support for two concurrent laptops attached to it, enabling the use of up to 4 virtual decks, making back-to-back mixing easier for Scratch Live DJs.

It’s also prepared with hardware controls for Scratch Live software, which enables faster handling of the software.

This also seems to be the mixer of choice for mixtape DJs, as it supports recording of every individual PGM input. This makes post-editing of your mixtapes alot easier.

Read more on the Rane website.

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