Jonas Tempel Leaves Beatport
Jonas Tempel, the founder and former CEO of Beatport, has officially left the company. Tempel built Beatport into the industry-leading, dance music online store and was credited with developing several digital music innovations in his tenure with the company. Beatport officially launched in January of 2004 with about 80 labels and then literally exploded as digital DJing was gaining momentum within the industry and jocks needed a...
Technics Officially Dead
Panasonic officially announced that they are discontinuing their Technics division. We’ve heard chatter that this had already occurred within the Japanese concern in January of this year, but now it’s official. Apparently, Panasonic has sold over 3.5 million 1200s to date since its introduction in 1972, but sales have dropped off substantially. In fact, sales of 1200s today only amount to 5 percent of the total sales...






