I wish everyone a happy new year. I hope that 2010 will be an exciting year and that the DJ & music evolution will continue in all it’s forms as it did in 2009.

In 1990 they hit the charts big with Dub be good to me, the boys and girls from Beats International. Today the sound and samples still echo in many DJ sets, especially the acapella.

In search for remix material of the Fireflies track I ran into a raggaeton remix from steffwell4.

The 10 year anniversary of Ableton is bringing us a lot of goodies just before the holidays: big amounts of discount, the release of Max for Live and a special Lite and Intro Edition of Ableton Live. On top of all that they also released 10 Free Ableton Live Packs from 10 different artists.

Just a few more days and 2009 is history! Like every year, a lot of people will celebrate this from all over the world. At that same moment a lot of DJs are playing all night long with at 12 o’clock the New Years Eve Count Down for 2010.

Yesterday evening I called OverSoft to plan a new Ableton Live MIDI synced session. Since he has upgraded his MacBook Air for a pretty heavy MacBook Pro and also ordered a Novation Launchpad.

From a number of people I got questions about the Kesha mashups and the Tik tok acapella. Everyone is wondering where I did get the Kesha Tik tok acapella from.

I knew you could mix it when you’re a bartender, but now you can also mix it together with music and listen to the taste: Radio MaliBoom Boom, the Malibu Radio Station.

AKAI released the technical documentation for the AKAI APC 40. This is the official documentation on how to make custom midi mappings with the APC 40.

A little bit late but definitely not less, the acapella of the month spotlight shines during December on Cuba Gooding – Happiness is just around the bend. A slow and soft disco song from 1983, but definitely a solid ingredient used in tons of house productions and a must have for DJs!