When I joined the student association Biton about ten years ago and immediately signed up to be a deejay (everything at Biton is done by volunteering menbers, and to become the man behind the music at party’s all I had to do is write my name down on a poster). At first I had to familiarize myself with a lot of music I did not know much about at that time, but I got hooked on deejaying pretty fast and grew out to be a pretty good all-round deejay, if I do say so myself. I had much fun, but a few years ago I grew tired of maintaining my knowledge of current pop music, most of which I didn’t like that much myself anyway.

I continued learning to beatmix for fun, and because the home-made deejaying software we used at Biton did not run on my Mac I started to look at alternative software on a whim at USB controllers. I do not own a mixer and turntables or cd players and and do not have much money to invest in a small hobby. To my surprise there are plenty affordable deejay controllers. Continue reading »