Thanks to a dodgy French retailer, Sony’s new 8GB NWZ-S544 and 16GB NWZ-S545 personal media players have been unveiled. The new players feature built-in speakers, 2.4-inch (QVGA) screens and contain a Lithium Ion battery that Sony claims provides 42 hours of audio, or 6.4 hours of video playback. Other features included an on-board “kick...

Now we’ve never been too impressed with Denon’s marketing of their DJ products — every announcement seems like an afterthought, but the company has just unveiled four new products for the DJ line. Developed under a new strategic partnership between Denon DJ and Serato, Denon has premiered the new DN-HC5000 Serato ITCH Controller. The...

This lunacy seems like something that Sasha Baron Cohen would dream up, but apparently Calvin Harris has decided to rig up a bevy of bikini clad women with some sort of conductive paint to perform a version of his mediocre new single “Ready For The Weekend” (Got My Ass-less Chaps On)” on a unique human synthesizer that he’s dubbed, a...

Pioneer has announced the DJM-5000, a four-channel Club DJ mixer and controller with a built-in soundcard. The DJM-5000 delivers 96kHz/24-bit sound and is also fully MIDI-enabled. Its built-in sound card for the laptop DJ guarantees quick and convenient PC/Mac connectivity, while three microphone channels together with four mic effects and an Advanced talk over...

Dave Smith Instruments has released Tetra, a new polyphonic analog synthesizer. Tetra’s four voices feature a 100% analog signal path and four-part multitimbral operation with individual outputs per voice. Tetra is basically four Mophos in a very compact (7.9″ L x 5″ W) enclosure, a sort of mini Prophet with a couple of extra tricks up its...