The Chemical Brothers have done it again!

The video to their new single ‘Midnight Madness’ features a break-dancing gremlin and a four minute trip around some of central London’s more salubrious back streets before making his way to The Astoria for a final dance-off on stage.

Directed by Dom and Nic, it has been tipped as one of the best dance vids of the year so far.

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1. Siriusmo - Wow (Modeselektor Remix)
2. MGMT - Electric Feel (JUSTICE REMIX)
3. Boys Noize - Let’s Buy Happiness (Proxy Remix)
4. The Proxy - Dancing in the Dark
5. Seamus Haji - 24H (Norman Doray Remix)
6. Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Laidback Luke Remix)
7. Steve Angello and Laidback Luke - Be (Laidback Luke Rave)
8. Robbie Rivera - I Want Candy (Robbie Rivera Mix)
9. Snoop Dogg - Sexual Eruption (Dirty South Remix)
10. Sinden & Count of Monte Crista - Beeper (Fake Blood Remix)
11. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Laidback Luke Remix)
12. Benny Benassi - Electro Sixteen
13. The Who - Baba O’Riley (SebastiAn Remix)

Looking like something you’d expect to find in a lab, the nano series is Korg’s latest stab at the controller market.  Aimed at laptop users, producers on the go and msuic-makers lcked into minimal spaces, the range consists of compact kets, trigger pads and even a channel mixer.

All three are the same size and shape, measuring the same width as a MacBook laptop by a couple of inches deep, and have a low profile.  The nonKEY spans two octaves with its 25 keys; the nanoPAD sports 12 trigger pads and an XY pad; while nanoKONTROL offers nine faders and knobs, plus 18 switches and a transport section.

All units feature a consistent white and blue plastic design, and connection is via USB, which also supplies the unit’s power.

Pricing and availability have not been specified yet, but we expect it won’t be long now.

The touch-screen turntable has been a dream for many DJs, but it has now become reality thanks to the pioneer efforts of Scott Hobbs.  The Attigo TT is the result of his final year design project and is a touch-screen interface designed for DJing with mp3 tracks.

Attigo (pronounced a-tee-go) is the Latin word for ‘touch’ and TT is an abbreviation for touch-screen turnable.  It allows DJs to see, hear, touch and manipulate a track as it is being played.  It uses a visual waveform of the music travelling vertically upwards on a conveyor belt, in a similar way to Serato Scratch.

Boasting all the same functions of a turntable, including transport buttons, as well as the cueing and looping functions of a CD deck, Scott claimed: “There is nothing that the TT will no be able to do.”

The Attigo TT is not available to buy yet but keep up with the latest developments through Scott’s website at www.scotthobbs.co.uk and www.attigo.co.uk

This year the DJ Award ceremony will take place at Pacha, Ibiza on Thursday 25th September.  This is the 11th year the DJ Awards are to be held, and is now one of the most important award ceremonies in the music industry calendar.

I take great pleasure in announcing that LAIDBACK LUKE has been nominated in the “Breakthrough” category.  Other DJ’s that have been nominated include Deadmaus, Sander van Doorn, Dirty South and Hot Chip.

As with previous years, the winner of this category will be decided by the public.  So go please do to www.djawards.com and vote for our friend, Laidback Luke.