Don’t want to spring for the real thing? You can now experience AlphaTheta’s new flagship CDJ-3000X DJ player in virtual realityFollowing the launch of AlphaTheta’s flagship CDJ-3000X DJ player earlier this month, a software version is coming to virtual reality.
With Tribe XR, AlphaTheta is bringing the CDJ-3000X – and DJM-A9 – to virtual reality setups including Meta Quest and Steam VR, describing them as “authentic 1-to-1 recreations of AlphaTheta’s latest flagship products”.

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If you need a refresher, the CDJ-3000X launched earlier in September, bringing Wi-Fi functionality and cloud and streaming features, a larger, sharper 10.1” display, and improved hardware.
Now, with its new collaboration with Tribe XR, AlphaTheta aims to bring the CDJ-3000X experience – and that of the DJM-A9 – to a wider audience of users.
Within TribeXR, users can fully explore the CDJ-3000X and DJM-A9, and even learn via interactive lessons, and real-time guidance from AI mentor DJ Beatbot.
DJs with access to compatible VR systems can load their own music or use streaming libraries (Beatport, TIDAL, SoundCloud Go+), and use “digital twins” of the CDJ-3000X and DJM-A9. “Every knob, screen and fader is recreated,” AlphaTheta promises.
“Our partnership with Tribe XR builds on AlphaTheta’s ‘One Through Music’ mission, enabling DJs everywhere to discover, connect and perform with a global community through our innovative products in new and inspiring ways,” adds Yoshinori Kataoka, CEO of AlphaTheta. 
“DJs across the globe can now step into a booth with our newest flagship products from launch day.”
Tom Impallomeni, CEO of Tribe XR, adds: “We are excited for DJs to try out AlphaTheta’s incredible new club setup virtually, instantly, and affordably. It’s a game-changer for DJ training and performance.”
You can get a seven-day free trial to Tribe XR, after which subscriptions are $9.99/month, $79.99/year, or $199.99 as a lifetime purchase.
Learn more at Tribe XR.

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IK Multimedia Space Delay is only $10 at AudioDeluxe until September 30th
IK Multimedia has slashed the price of Space Delay, its lush tape echo emulation, to just $10 at AudioDeluxe (regular price $99.99). The offer is valid until September 30th, and it’s an absolute steal if you’re into vintage echo effects. Space Delay is IK Multimedia’s detailed recreation of the iconic Roland RE-201 Space Echo, a [...]
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How do DJs break out in 2025? Femme House, Beatport & The Lot Radio have ideasI often joke that everyone in New York City either works in finance or is a DJ. Obviously, this is not true, but there are more DJs than you can reasonably count here. Nowadays, it’s a Herculean task to create buzz as a fledgling selector anywhere. In Britain, over 400 nightclubs—more than one-third—have shuttered in the last five years, meaning less spaces for newer DJs to make a name for themselves.

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Enter “The Block,” a shipping-container-turned-DJ-booth outfitted with a Funktion-One sound system. Beatport Live created this mobile space to highlight emerging DJs at major festivals and beyond—a 500-capacity stage for newer artists to shine and more established ones to play an intimate set.
“We’ve been keeping a close eye on the impact of venue closures,” Ed Hill, the Bristol-based SVP of Beatport Live, explains. “A lot of Beatport customers are grassroots and up-and-coming DJs. There aren’t enough places for people to play anymore, so we wanted to create a space where people could get exposure playing on a good sound system in front of crowds at festivals, and be able hone their skills.”
The Block debuted in late July at Junction 2 Fest in London, adding an extra stage with a 60 per cent female lineup, featuring surprise sets from Sofia Kourtesis, O’Flynn and PARAMIDA, plus Beatport Next 2025 artists Azzecca and Ma Sha, alongside a roster of 12 emerging DJs. Beatport’s Live and Curation teams listened to nearly 1,000 mixes submitted for consideration and chose Bob Cojones, ESHE, Montif Clare, sooyeon, Cleopatra, LDH Records, debbiesthuglife, Sands Spheric, Cheers!, Rabbit Hole, Francesca Rose and imad:re. One of the artists reported fielding multiple booking requests afterwards.
The crowd at The Block. Image: Press
After our conversation, The Block brought 14 more upstart DJs to Creamfields, which hosts around 80,000 ravers and over 300 artists. Beatport received 400 mix submissions in just 48 hours from DJs eager to get a slot. Due to the enthusiasm, Beatport is aiming to tour The Block across the UK and Europe in the coming months.
Throughout this winter, The Block will be posted at Bristol venue The Prospect Building to host more DJ sets, along with workshops, tutorials and beyond. There, it is intended as a hub for people to connect, including those who can’t afford music festivals.
As for spotlighting emerging sounds and scenes, Beatport has unique insight into what’s next, thanks to seeing what music is being downloaded (and uploaded) where.
“Our Curation team can see and predict patterns before they emerge, because they’ve got so much music [coming in], and we see buying patterns from each city and country. When we’re doing something like Beatport Next, the biggest components are diversity and looking at new sounds and new territories that are popping off or just about to pop off. We concentrate on trying to push those sounds and be a leader in what’s happening,” Hill notes.
Azzecca. Image: Press
There’s a Gaggle of Great DJs on the Lot Radio
Across the pond in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighbourhood, another converted shipping container has been hosting emerging and big-deal DJs since February 2016, when Belgian expat François Vaxelaire opened The Lot Radio. 24 hours a day, the small-but-mighty non-profit livestreams DJ sets highlighting the eclectic sounds of NYC’s music scene.
The DJ-booth-slash-mini-café sits on a once long-abandoned lot, transforming the space into a popular hangout and destination for dance music fans, DJs and neighbours alike; an inviting third place. It boasts a fully equipped DJ booth (with digital and vinyl decks) for DJs to experiment, meet and collaborate.
The Lot’s lineup is home to 200 local regulars like Love Injection, Toribio, Mickey Perez, Justin Strauss, DJ Swisha and many more, who deliver weekly or monthly sets alongside drop-ins from artists in town for shows. Tame Impala, Floating Points, Ben UFO, Fred again.., Nia Archives and Four Tet have all paid visits, with the latter an unofficial regular.
“I arrived in New York in 2010, when there was a big revival of electronic music and techno… I was really impressed by the quality and the fierce energy of the young people here, the talent here,” Vaxelaire reflects. “That’s what got me excited to start the radio, which came along at a good time… It became a house to welcome all the people who were already part of that scene.”
Tune into The Lot, and you’ll hear much more than club music: ambient, experimental, soul, salsa, deep cuts from around the globe and across the years, and even some live vocals. While it’s an important part of the local electronic scene, Vaxelaire is always looking to expand into other genres and bring young people in to keep things fresh. Thus, curating the schedule and creating a diverse line-up that continues to represent the Big Apple is a never-ending math equation.
“We’re trying to have a beautiful equilibrium. It’s really hard, it’s kind of a dance you have to work on every day, all day. We want to be an open and welcoming platform for the young talents of New York in any kind of music, as long as those people are as madly in love with music as we are. Also, we welcome bigger profile artists that we admire… It’s an equilibrium between major artists, more up-and-coming ones, and local legends,” The Lot Radio founder explains.
“We get a huge amount of requests from really big acts in the electronic scene that we say no to because they’re way too popular. They have such [a big] platform, they don’t really need us. We feel that it’s sometimes that they’re trying to reach a bit more street credibility by being here.”
Bob Cojones. Image: Press
Femme House is Doing the Most for the Girls
Another non-profit music org going above and beyond for the electronic community is Femme House, helmed by DJs LP Giobbi and hermixalot. In 2019, when LP Giobbi was a rising DJ herself, she wanted to do more to address the wide gender inequality behind the decks and in the studio. Femme House’s impressive efforts to create and platform a more diverse DJ and producer pool continues to grow with online and in-person classes, stage takeovers and tours, Insomniac Records compilations, their new Femmy Awards at Miami Music Week, and much more. Hermixalot, a Black queer woman, leads their DEI initiatives, which include BIPOC and LGBTIA fellowship programs and efforts to bring on more women of colour to teach and attend their programs.
While the gender and racial disparities in music are still wide, LP has noticed change happening slowly as more people put their hat in the ring, and gatekeepers become more intentional about who they book and promote.
“It’s a very slow change because it’s hard to be what you can’t see. When you’re at a festival and you see yourself represented by somebody on stage, you think, consciously or subconsciously, Maybe I can do this. When you believe there’s a shot, it’s easier to do the work, to learn how to DJ and make music. That’s a long, slow process,” she posits.
For every Femme House stage, from EDC to ADE, they offer the opening slot for someone who’s never played a fest before. LP books women openers whenever she can and plays women producers in her sets to share their music with her fans and help them climb the Beatport charts—something she doesn’t always see other women DJs doing.
LP Giobbi. Image: Carolina Isabel Salazar
After many requests from festivals, bookers and music behemoths to share DJs with them, Femme House created a spreadsheet of female and gender-expansive acts, meaning tons of rising DJs get exposure to opportunities. When it comes to curation and diversity at Femme House, LP Giobbi is focused on making space for women and gender-expansive people of colour while ensuring their music is a good fit for the audience.
“I’m mostly making sure the communities that are underrepresented are represented; non-white, non-binary, female. Those are the first things that are requirements for the people that we’re going to support. And when we’re looking for an opener, we’re making sure the sound is going to be the right fit for the person they’re playing after,” the producer says. “Once we’re past the diversity piece, it’s really just about making sure that we’re putting them on stages where they can gain fans, in places where their music will connect with the people who are there to see the headliner.”
Femme House, Lot Radio and Beatport offer DJs at all career stages essential spaces to play and gain new fans. For regulars at the Lot, it’s a place to grow, one where they can experiment with their sound, play music they wouldn’t at the club, and connect with fellow DJs. Femme House and The Block carve out space for DJs to break through with major festival sets, a vital foot in the door to get more bookings. Femme House is also bringing more women into DJing and production with femme-centred classes and educational resources.
These are not the only people and orgs attempting to diversify the DJ pool, but if more people in the industry thought about community over individual success and intentionally sought out and made space for fresh talent and sounds, things would look, sound and feel a whole lot better.
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Nvidia partners with UK crypto miner’s arm as part of AI push: ReportThe reported $683-million investment from Nvidia into Nscale came amid a push by the UK government to develop the country’s AI infrastructure.

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BMI Foundation Names Janette Mata as 2025 peermusic Latin Music Award RecipientBMI Foundation, Inc. announced on Wednesday that it "has named singer/songwriter Janette Mata as the 2025 peermusic Latin Music Award recipient in recognition of her original song 'Triste Despedida.'""The peermusic Latin Music Award, established in 2003 by peermusic CEO Ralph Peer II, is an annual competition for young songwriters and composers of Latin music," a statement reads. "The award includes a $5,000 monetary prize for the best original song or instrumental composition in any Latin genre. Last year, on the 20th anniversary of the award, peermusic announced that Venezuelan singer-songwriter and producer Jorge Luis Chacín would serve as the spokesperson for the award and offering 1:1 artistic mentorship to awardees."“Music always finds new voices to continue telling the story of our humanity,” shared Chacín. “We celebrate Janette Mata, a singer-songwriter of extraordinary talent, whose art makes her a deserving recipient of this year’s scholarship.”"In the last two decades, the award has recognized twenty-one emerging songwriting and composing talents who have gone on to careers as film and media composers, songwriters, actors, and performers. Notable past recipients include singer/actor Mane de la Parra and songwriter Daniela Blau. Past judges have included composer Kike Santander, Latin Grammy President Gabriel Abaroa, composer Daniel Freiberg, producer Alcover, musician Linda Briceño, producer Andrés Saavedra, and musician Nicolás Junca from the band Monsieur Periné; and superstars such as Juanes, Chayanne, and Prince Royce have previously served as the spokesperson for the award."Listen to Janette Mata’s award-winning song “Triste Despedida”here.The post BMI Foundation Names Janette Mata as 2025 peermusic Latin Music Award Recipient first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Investors bet $800M on rocky StubHub IPO as regulators close inUPDATED: The long awaited StubHub IPO hit the market today, marking a defining moment for the secondary ticketing industry. Priced at $23.50 per share, the offering raised nearly $800 million and gave the company a valuation of about $8.6 billion. By day's end shares were down 6.4% below the IPO price.
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Smooth! Non-Planar 3D IroningIs 2025 finally the year of non-planar 3D printing? Maybe it won’t have to be if [Ten Tech] gets his way!
Ironing is the act of going over the top surface of your print again with the nozzle, re-melting it flat. Usually, this is limited to working on boring horizontal surfaces, but no more! This post-processing script from [Tenger Technologies], coupled with a heated, ball-shaped attachment, lets you iron the top of arbitrary surfaces.
At first, [Ten Tech] tried out non-planar ironing with a normal nozzle. Indeed, we’ve seen exactly this approach taken last year.  But that approach fails at moderate angles because the edge on the nozzle digs in, and the surrounding hot-end parts drag.
[Ten Tech]’s special sauce is taking inspiration from the ball-end mill finishing step in subtractive CNC work: he affixed the round tip of a rivet on the end of a nozzle, and insulating that new tool turned it into an iron that could smooth arbitrary curvy top layers.
One post-processing script later, and the proof of concept is working. Check out the video below to see it in action. As it stands, this requires a toolhead swap and the calibration of a whole bunch of new parameters, but it’s a very promising new idea for the community to iterate on. We love the idea of a dedicated tool and post-processing smoother script working together in concert.
Will 2025 be the year of non-planar 3DP? We’ve seen not one but two superb multi-axis non-planar printer designs so far this year: one from [Joshua Bird] and the other from [Daniel] of [Fractal Robotics]. In both cases, they are not just new machines, but are also supported with novel open-source slicers to make them work. Now [Ten Tech]’s ironer throws its hat in the ring. What will we see next?
Thanks to [Gustav Persson] for the tip!

Meet the new music streaming service that’s ditched algorithmic playlists… and it’s licensed by all three majorsMBW's Trailblazers series meets Randy Fusee, CEO of music streaming platform Coda Music
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Reverb Machine PS-48PS-48 is a collection of 100 synth patches inspired by the Yamaha PSS-480, a compact keyboard that, despite its modest design, delivers distinctive two-operator FM tones. The PSS-480's sounds are identical to those of the PSS-580, so this pack also covers the full PSS-580 sound set. Phoenix are among the best-known users of the PSS-480, featuring it both in live performances and on tracks like Girlfriend, Rome, 1901, and Entertainment. The pack is built from samples of the original instrument, recreating all 100 factory sounds with the added flexibility to adjust envelopes, vibrato, tremolo, and other parameters. Sampler Patches PS-48 includes patches for Native Instruments Kontakt, one of the most widely used software samplers. The patches feature a custom graphical interface with adjustable settings, modulation controls, and built-in chorus, delay, and reverb effects. These patches require the full version of Kontakt (version 6 or higher) and will not work with the free Player version. The pack also contains presets for the free Decent Sampler plugin, compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS. This version mirrors the Kontakt interface but replaces the LFO setting with an Autopan effect. Ableton Live PS-48 also includes over 100 Instrument Racks for Ableton Live, using the same samples and settings as the Kontakt and Decent Sampler versions but designed to work directly in Live. The Live 11 or later version is arranged like the Kontakt and Decent Sampler patches, with sounds grouped into categories. Individual patches can be selected using the Macro Variation control on the left side of the rack. Live 10 does not support Macro Variations, so the Live 10 version includes 100 individual Instrument Racks, one for each sound. Freshly Updated PS-48 is an updated version of my earlier Porta pack, expanding the original 40 Yamaha PSS-480 sounds to all 100 from the keyboard. The samples have been newly recorded for cleaner, lower-noise playback, and envelope controls are now fully adjustable, making it possible to extend or sustain sounds that were originally short and decaying. Read More

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What is a vocoder? How to use vocoders in your music
Learn about what a vocoder is, how the effect works, and how you can apply vocoding in your own music with hardware or plugins.

Updates to Intuitive Instruments' Exquis MPE controller Intuitive Instruments have announced firmware v2.2.0 for its award-winning Exquis MPE controller, alongside new workflow scripts for Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio, and Cockos Reaper.

Internet Archive reaches “confidential resolution” with major labels over “Great 78” project copyright disputeIn 2023, the Internet Archive faced a $412 million copyright infringement lawsuit from record labels because of its “Great 78” project. Among a hefty 400,000 recordings so far in the archive, the project would have given the general public free access to 2,749  iconic pre-1972 tracks by artists like Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
As MusicTech reported back when the dispute emerged, labels including Sony, UMG and Capitol together claimed that the Internet Archive’s streaming and distribution of these tracks was a breach of copyright.

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Yesterday, the Internet Archive announced that some progress had been made on the case: “As noted in the recent court filings in UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Internet Archive, both parties have advised the Court that the matter has been settled. The parties have reached a confidential resolution of all claims and will have no further public comment on this matter.”
According to the CourtListener document which comes with the statement, “certain settlement terms” are pending.
This is all part of a wider argument about intellectual property rights in the music industry. Great 78’s ambitions also ruffled the feathers of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), who told Rolling Stone in August 2023 that the Internet Archive’s “mass scale copying, streaming and distribution of the thousands of pre-1972 recordings identified in the complaint — all of which are commercially available on multiple legitimate streaming services – are blatant violations of those established rights.
“Just as Internet Archive’s supposed ‘emergency library’ of copyrighted books was recently ruled unlawful by a federal judge, its ‘Great 78’ project is yet another mass infringement scheme that has no basis in law,” it continued.
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New Dutch music studio complex opens in former Cold War-era nuclear bunkerA new music studio complex is opening in The Hague, Netherlands in a former nuclear bunker dating back to the Cold War.
Comprising 17 separate studios ranging in size from 11 to 37 square metres, Subterra – located two floors underground – has been designed to offer a “distraction-free environment” idea for different styles of music production. They can say that again.

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The original bunker was built as an emergency command centre in the event of a national crisis, and its original elements, including steel doors and thick walls, have been preserved.
The facility’s rehearsal rooms are managed by the Noodzetel Foundation, which aims to support The Hague’s musicians and its cultural entrepreneurship.
“Subterra is a unique place in The Hague, and even in the Netherlands!” says The Hague councillor for Finance, Culture and Economic Development Saskia Bruines.
“Here underground, we preserve a special part of The Hague’s history, while at the same time giving local musicians the space to grow and inspire each other.
“The Hague is the cradle of Dutch pop culture, and we are determined to keep it that way. Having good rehearsal rooms and a safe place for equipment is absolutely vital. I am delighted that, together with the Noodzetel Foundation, we have been able to make this a reality.”
For 12 years, since 2013, the 2,000-square metre bunker had stood empty, but following 14 months of renovation, the new recording studios and rehearsal rooms are now fully in use. Subterra says there’s even already a waiting list.
Subterra is located near The Hague Central Station, at the Schedeldoekshaven under the former Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Learn more at storiesofpurpose.thehague.com.
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