Pioneer DJ have announced ambitious plans to unveil a state of the art “hands free” mixer in early 2016.
The announcement was made at Pioneer DJ’s annual general meeting in Tokyo earlier this week, the first since Pioneer DJ was taken over by private equity firm KKR in September last year.
“This is the natural evolution of Pioneer DJ,” claimed KKR spokesperson Barry Greaves. “We didn’t buy this company to continue making industry standard equipment that we can be proud of, we bought it to milk the EDM explosion like the cash cow that it is.”
“And the best way to do that is to make all of our equipment as gimicky, cheap and easy to use as possible,” explained Mr. Greaves, “so the hands free mixer, or the EDMDJM 5000 as it’s likely to be called, is going to be our flagship piece of kit to bring us into the next chapter of the Pioneer DJ story.”
Originally posted by Sushipunk
I saw that on FB earlier :stongue:
It's great :haha:
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“There’ll be four main voice activated commands on the mixer. Obviously the most important one will be ‘play’, it’s also the only one most EDM DJs will actually use,” revealed the anonymous Pioneer employee. “But for the more adventurous DJs there’ll also be ‘sync’, ‘fade left’ and ‘fade right’. It should be a fool proof system but we won’t know for sure until we’ve tested it on Steve Aoki.”
“It’s early days in development and we’re still considering adding a couple of additional, more advanced commands like ‘flange’ and ‘spin back’ but we’re not sure if our targeted audience will have the brain capacity to remember more commands than they can count on one hand.”
News of the hands free mixer has been very well received by the EDM elite, who see it as the perfect way to “free up time to wave your hands in the air, take selfies and make heart hands”.
So far a number of the world’s top DJs including Diplo, Afrojack and Avicii, who is said to be delighted to finally be able to “wank during sets”, have publicly shown their support.
I can;t wait for Aoki to lose his again and try to sue them for the umpteenth time lol
