Giving everyone an excuse to not learn an instrument :: DJ Hero
DJ Hero turntable controller
I have friends who are Guitar Hero/Rock Band addicts. It’s to the point where most of them that are good, and I mean staying-up-until-6am-playing-Guitar Hero good have never touched a guitar, more or less any other type of instrument. These types of games were always interesting to me because they allow you to kind of but not really learn the fine art of performing with an instrument. Me? I’m so terrible that I usually last about 5 minutes before my rockstar-esque randomly generated video game entity gets boo’ed off stage.
Enter DJ Hero which was displayed at the G3 conference in LA this week which has audible contributions by Jay-Z, Emimem, and others. DJ Hero drops in September of this year and will also host generes outside of hip hop including R&B, techno (I can’t wait to get my Bad Boy Bill on… siiiiiike), and Motown and will be compatible with other Rock Band instrument controllers.
The most entertaining part? The turntable controller also comes with a pseudo flight case and a stand, making it 90x easier to carry around than an actual set of turntables.
The most WTF part? Where is the mixer?! Thanks to Andy in the comments – there IS a mixer.
The most hopeful AND scary part: Maybe people will start respecting the art of turntablism after they have turned into closet scratch masters again… and in turn, flood the entire industry with a bunch of shitty turntablists who are scratching in the sequence of the Contra code.
And now, for some dj turntable goodness which doesn’t play around with controllers.
Dj Chonz & Dj Vajra, circa forever ago
