Honey, darling, babes, sweethearts, lovelies…. how are you? I’m so glad to see you today. I’ve lost the login info at first, couldn’t get into the login site…now my firefox-browser crashes everytime I try to upload a picture to Wordpress ( that’s the software we are blogging on here.) BUT I intend to get something [...]

I don’t know how I miss this, but I did. From the land of my old stomping grounds, Wale, Tabi Bonney, The Five One is a band out of the DMV(DC, Maryland, Virgina). The Five One consists of 4 members represented by colors: Red, Blue, Green and Gold, and they actually wear their colors so not to be confusing.

It was only time before we see a game similar to Guitar Hero made for DJing. Now, being a DJ, I’m not sure how I feel about this. It could be a good thing or it could be a very bad thing.

[ April 18, 2009 9:00 pm to April 19, 2009 2:00 am. ] DJ Benzi returns to Milwaukee on Saturday, April 18th to Moct in Milwaukee and Rhythm Lab and Needledrop proudly welcomes him. Originally from Michigan, Dj Benzihas become one of the most influential and prolific mixtape DJs in the world.

[ April 4, 2009 12:00 am to April 5, 2009 12:00 am. ] On Saturday, April 4th at Turner Hall Ballroom in Milwaukee one of the most premier events in hip hop will take place. It is the Miltown Beat Down Hip Hop Olympics: Battle of Champions. Over the last two months beatmakers, producer have been competing for a chance to be crowned the best beatmaker/producer in Milwaukee.

Check this cover of MGMT’s Kids made on iPod touch and iPhone by UK’s The Mentalists using only apps downloaded from the Apple App Store. Apps used Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, DigiDrummer Lite.

You go to love the Onion. They have mastered the art of the parody, and you can beat this quote, “I buy anything that is shiny and made by Apple”.

It looks like Swedish group Peter, Bjorn and John are going to have the 2009 version of “Young Folks”. The song is apparently called “Nothing to Worry About”. Could this song be the official song for the global economic crisis. Guess who leaked the tune. None other than Kanye West.

Here at Needledrop we will be starting a podcast simply called “The Drop”. The first episode will be all on women producers from a variety genres. One of the producers we are planning to feature is an artist by the name of Rucyl out of NYC. Not only is she producer, she is also a singer and founder of the label Elektrocardio. This is not what sets her apart from other artists. Here is the kicker she also is an inventor with a keen fashion sense.

Our peeps over Epic Fu have a great episode on starting the year off right! Check it out and don’t forget you can visit us at the Epic Fu community here

Nowadays, anyone with a computer and some software such as Ableton Live or Reason can make beats, but what if you don’t have the cash for software or the right computer to run some of the software? Well there are some online web tools that allow you to make music. Some of theses online tools [...]

As some of you may know, the polaroid camera is all but dead.  The company will cease to make film for the cameras by the end of 2009. This is very unfortunate.  There have been quite few photographers who have made Polaroid cool again such as our man Rony.  But don’t worry (sort of).  There [...]

Just recently, my headphones finally broke.  I have been looking for a new pair of dj headphones.  While I was looking, I came across these headphones called Beats by Dre.  Yes, you heard correct headphones designed by Dr. Dre.  The headphones are manufactured by Monster (the same people who make the monster cables).  The headphones [...]

I love turntables because you can actually touch the “music”. However, this cat by the name of Scott Hobbs took the concept of “touching music” one step further by creating this prototype digital turntables called Attigo TT. He created this for his thesis. Damn.  He basically has two touch screens about the size of a [...]

In a previous post, I mentioned a cool device called the Pacemaker. Think of it as turnables and a mixer meets the iPod. Well the company who created the Pacemaker just launch a new social network for DJ mixes. They also give you free software to create your mixes and publish [...]

I found two interesting gadgets for DJs. The first one relates to Serato and devices like Torq and Final Scratch. Lately, I have been getting gigs with other DJs who use different Vinyl control devices. It is a pain to try to switch between them. I have Torq and then the [...]