The Latest Chart Hits – Feb. 2010
The latest chart hits on the commercial mainstream music for Feb. 2010
1 ARCTIC MONKEYS – “Dance Little Liar”
2 JUSTIN BIEBER – “One Time”
3 BLACK EYED PEAS – “Rock That Body”
4 MARY J. BLIGE – “I Am”
5 TONI BRAXTON – “Yesterday”
6 CHERYL COLE – “Parachute”
7 EMPIRE OF THE SUN – “Without You (New Version)”
8 CALVIN HARRIS – “You Used To Hold Me”
9 ERIK HASSLE – “Hurtful”
10 HONOREBEL FEAT. PITBULL & JUMP SMOKERS – “Now You See It”
11 LADY GAGA FEAT. BEYONCÉ – “Telephone”
12 PIXIE LOTT – “Gravity”
13 PHOENIX – “1901″
14 PLACEBO – “Bright Lights”
15 RIHANNA FEAT. JEEZY – “Hard”
16 SATURDAYS – “Here Standing”
17 SUB FOCUS – “Could This Be Real”
18 SUGABABES – “Wear My Kiss”
19 TIMBALAND FEAT. KATY PERRY – “If We Ever Meet Again”
20 YEASAYER – “Ambling Alp”
This latest chart hits playlist was taken from MasterMix
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Ultimate Ears, In-Ear Headphones

These Ultimate Ears in-ear headphones are easily breakable and the cables wear out quickly but they are a great listening experience and can fit into your ears perfectly. They are very good at keeping the outside noise out too.
It can also be used as DJ headphones. Some top DJ’s are already using them. They can help protect your ears in a very loud environment.
More info in this link here:
Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10 Noise Isolating Earphones
Most probably it’s a Shure here in Amazon:
The Very Best High-End In-Ear Headphones
And here you find more info for in-ear dj headphones for DJs
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Laptop DJ’ing

Laptop DJ
The key to running a successful software based DJ system, is to buy a dedicated laptop for the task, and to only run the operating system and DJ Software on there, and never allow it to run other applications or even connect to the internet.
This way the installation runs and remains clean and largely error free, will rarely have a corrupt file, and won’t get infiltrated or bogged down with several other applications.
This advice is given by DJ’s including me who have been using software and PC’s for many years, and have found this method of DJ’ing to be just as reliable as conventional DJ’ing from CD’s.
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With large laptop internal hard drives, you can store thousands of 320-bit MP3s though a lot of DJs use CD-quality WAV or AIFF files instead.
Video files take up much more space , so an external hard drive is necessary.
Sending video signals also uses more bandwidth than audio, so while a USB 2.0 drive is good for audio, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 are better connections for video.
For video drives, pay attention to drive speed (7200 RPM is essential) and the chip set.
The 500 GB external drives have fallen to low prices now, and terabyte drives are coming down in price.
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Italian DJ Giuseppe Ottaviani playing live with two Apple Powerbooks running Ableton Live & Tracktor, two keyboards, two different mixers and an effects machine during Crasher Hyper Royale night at Gatecrasher One, Sheffield 2007, Picture by ©BrianOMahony.net .
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And here a more recent video
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Laptop DJ Pro Soundcards – Echo AudioFire 4

Echo AudioFire 4 FireWire Audio Interface
- Software console for monitoring, metering, and setting levels
- Bus powered with 6-pin FireWire interface
- Near zero latency hardware monitoring
- Heavy-duty aluminum case
- External 12VDC power supply provided
For Laptop DJ-ing
Apart from a good reliable optimized laptop for DJ-ing, is to have a good quality pro sound card so if you haven’t done so then it is worth investigating in the top sound cards available.
You can start with pretty much right away with the right software and your laptop but to benefit from hardware mixing (most DJ’s usually would prefer this). Your laptop needs at least two separate stereo audio outputs.
With an internal mixer, or mixer inside the software, one stereo signal will be the cue and the other will be master out. With an external mixer, or hardware mixer at the club, there will be a separate stereo signal for both tracks. Some software packages allow more than two tracks to play at once.
As a few laptops come with a multi-channel soundcard, an external soundcard is essential. There are several USB soundcards for less than $200, such as the M-Audio Fast Track Pro and Numark DJ I/O.
FireWire soundcards can offer higher sound quality at a higher price; Presonus and Echo make excellent FireWire options, and if your laptop has a PC Card slot, the Echo Indigo DJ is another great option.
There are also controllers equipped with soundcards, such as the DJ Console Rmx, Omni Control, VCM-100 and M-Audio Xponent.
Echo AudioFire4 is a bit pricey but it really is one of the top best quality sounds around.
Echo AudioFire4 at Amazon here
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Goa Trance, The Sprawl EP – Amygdala
A September 2009 Release – Progressive, Goa, Techtrance.
The Sprawl EP – Amygdala

Progressive, Goa, Techtrance.
02 :: Oxylerator (Part 1) (132 BPM)
03 :: The Sprawl (132 BPM)
04 :: MetaMusic (132 BPM)
05 :: Tweakend (140 BPM)
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““The Sprawl” is one of the best tracks I’ve listened to in a VERY long time!”
Free good quality download here at Ektoplazm .
And here is a video :
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Cheerio!
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