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Kanye West has hit back at hitting back after he was arrested for attacking a photographer in England this week.
In a statement at his blog, West says “a picture is worth a thousand words, theirs are worth a thousand dollars”.
West is claiming self defence after being arrested for attacking the pap but says ““I didn’t assault him, but merely putting my hand up to cover his lens”.
At the blog he says “let us not forget the Paps killed Princess Diana. When will there be a law passed that simply emforces …

One of the nice things about ICon in recent years is how one of the book sellers (Tzomet Sfarim?) arranges a big display of all of the author guest of honor’s books. I think I first noticed this when Neil Gaiman was the GoH, but it persisted when Carol Berg was here, and I noticed [...]

Because I moved to a different office (formerly “the small conference room”, and sadly, we kept its table) the same day I was involved in a minor fender-bender, it took me three days to admit to myself that the pain in my back isn’t because of sitting at bad desks on broken chairs in uncomfortable [...]

he latest release of Kubuntu (the Ubuntu distribution variant I use on my home computer) included KDE 4.13, the fancy new Desktop Environment for people who don’t care why there’s a K in the name.

Nord and UK distributor Sound Technology are very pleased to announce the next generation Electro - the Nord Electro 3. With the introduction of the Nord Electro 3, the legacy of the original Electro and the knowhow that have shaped some of the other Nord models have been combined. The Electro 3 features a new organ section, a new piano section, new effects and also a new exciting feature that allows the Electro 3 to use any samples from the Nord Wave library.
New and improved features
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Currently on the promo trail for their new live DVD/album A Cross The Universe, French electro fiends Justice have made a rather frank – and quite possibly costly – admission in an interview with MTV… They didn’t clear all the samples included on their 2007 debut album †! “If you listen to Genesis, the first track [on †, there are samples of Slipknot, Queen and 50 Cent,” Xavier de Rosnay asserted boldly. “But they are such short samples no one can recognise them. The ones from Slipknot, for example, are …

A contestant on hit US television show “American Idol” who was apparently infatuated with judge Paula Abdul had been found dead outside the singer’s Los Angeles home.

Paula Goodspeed, 30, a Season 5 contestant, whose audition performance of “Proud Mary” was panned and mocked by the judges, probably died of a drug overdose. Los Angeles police Capt.
James Miller said: “Ms. Goodspeed’s mother had gone to [the sheriff's department] to report her daughter missing, and advised them that she might be suicidal.
“The sheriffs determined that Ms. Goodspeed may be up …

LOS ANGELES - Now DJ/producers and mobile entertainers can have one convenient deck that functions as a CD/MP3 player and also controls their MIDI software. American Audio has introduced the Radius 1000, an exciting new CD/MP3 player with MIDI capabilities for controlling professional music playback software.

The Radius 1000 is a radically cool hands-on device that lets you play digital tracks directly from your computer without using a mouse, just like you would with a professional CD deck, giving you a real hardware feel. That means DJs now have the ability …

WFMU’s: Long Time Coming (MP3s):  

Based on a curriculum devised by a full-time lecturer at Guildford’s Academy of Contemporary Music, the one-day courses are being offered for a whopping £300.
But unlike the plethora of DJ courses available in London, Ministry’s will see special guest teachers like house veteran Danny Rampling, drum & bass hero Ray Keith, Hacienda resident Chad Jackson and UK garage DJ Karl ‘Tuff Enough’ Brown.
And pupils will even get the chance to spin in the famous Ministry of Sound DJ booth.
If you’re interested in the course, find all the info at: http://www.ministryofsound.com/djacademy
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Loopmasters. This free download includes over 400 MB of content, featuring 400 loops, 128 Simpler
presets and 12 creative instrument Racks in a variety of musical styles.
Note: Solid Sounds is available for all registered Live/Live LE users. You will need to be logged in to your Ableton user account to download Solid Sounds.
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Native Instruments today announced TRAKTOR PRO and TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO, the next versions of its groundbreaking digital DJ solutions with MIDI and time-code control. Based on years of software evolution, the latest TRAKTOR generation offers superior creative workflow, an extremely functional user interface, powerful sound shaping features, advanced syncing and control functions, and much more. TRAKTOR PRO and TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO were designed with a strong focus on efficiency and ease-of-use, making them outstanding performance tools for DJs of all styles and experience levels.
With computer-based DJing solutions finally established as …

After suffering the wrath of the DJ world with his “They’re f***ing c**ts” comment, Canadian upstart Deadmau5 has moved to clear things up on his Myspace Blog.
The man in the mouse head said: “Okay, to say ‘all djs are… etc etc’, to be taken literally as this article did, was just painfully stupid on their behalf.”
“I’m not a total fucking idiot and I recognise talent when I see it… and there are many talented DJs out there for sure In my eyes, those would be the individuals who utilise technology …

Illustrations by Patrick Moberg