DJ & Producer
With cheap MIDI controllers, “music theory hacks” and cracked copies of Ableton, pretty much anyone can be a music producer now. But for genuine, impassioned electronic musicians, is it actually any easier to get heard today than it was at the turn of the millennium? I still remember, years ago, listening in the car to…
Today’s announcement that Beatport and SoundCloud have both made partnerships with Pioneer, allowing DJs to stream tracks from the cloud straight into their mixing software, is bad news for smaller labels. The only thing that has actually changed this week is that DJs can now queue up tracks from Beatport and SoundCloud into Pioneer’s WeDJ…