5 DJ yang Paling Produktif dalam Industri Musik

Beberapa tahun terakhir, genre electronic dance music (EDM) booming banget dan jadi favorit di Indonesia. Jika dulu image EDM adalah musik buat dunia malam aja dan berkonotasi negatif, maka kini nggak lagi. Musik satu ini sama dengan genre lain, enak didengarkan kapan saja bahkan tiap ada festival musik ini tiketnya selalu sold out dan jadi konser yang paling ditunggu-tunggu.

Hal ini nggak terlepas dari peran para DJ yang produktif membuat lagu-lagu terbaru yang mencuri hati banyak anak muda. Kerennya lagi, banyak banget DJ yang usianya masih di bawah 30 tahun dan udah tur keliling dunia dan punya jutaan fans. Siapa aja sih mereka dan apa aja prestasinya?

Alesso

Alessandro Lindblad a.k.a Alesso emang baru berusia 23 tahun, namun ia udah memulai debutnya sejak 4 tahun lalu. Ia memilih progressive house sebagai spesialisasinya, dan berada di urutan 13 dari top 100 DJ versi DJ magazine di tahun 2012. Ia udah kolaborasi bareng Sebastian Ingrosso, Ryan Tedder, One Republic, Matthew Koma, Dirty South dan masih banyak lagi. Beberapa singlenya yang jadi favorit adalah “Years”, “City of Dream” dan “Under Control”.

Hardwell

Kalau ada DJ yang paling sering merilis album kompilasi, mungkin Hardwell orangnya. Sejak tahun 2005, DJ dengan nama asli Robbert van de Corput ini udah menciptakan beberapasingle dan jadi hits di beberapa radio dan juga chart musik. Tahun 2010, ia mulai merangkumnya menjadi album kompilasi yang diberi nama Hardwell Presents Revealed 1 hingga 5. Tahun 2013 kemarin, namanya berada di nomor 1 top 100 DJ dan tahun 2013-2014 ini Hardwell bikin tur keliling dunia. Cool!

Avicii

Setiap DJ punya gayanya sendiri, begitu juga dengan Avicii alias Tim Bergling. Ia interaktif banget saat perform di atas panggung dan juga murah senyum. Pemilik lagu-lagu hits "Wake Me Up" , "Hey Brother" dan “Adicted to You" ini juga langganan menang award. Salah satunya adalah American Music Awards di tahun 2013 sebagai Favorite Electronic Music Artist.

Zedd

Ia merupakan salah satu DJ yang menguasai hampir semua alat musik lho! Ia memainkan lagu-lagunya secara akustik dengan piano, gitar, drum, dan semuanya dengan fasih. Ia juga mencampurkan beberapa genre seperti Electro house, progressive house, complextro, dubstepke dalam setiap karyanya. FYI, DJ yang bernama lengkap Anton Zaslavski ini udah memulai kariernya sejak usia 12 tahun lho! Ia juga terkenal sering bikin lagu bareng penyanyi terkenal seperti Hayley William dan Ellie Goulding.

Andrew Rayel

Trance music punya penggemarnya tersendiri. A State of Trance nggak asing untukmu? Maka Andrew Rayel yang berkiprah di genre Trance, progressive trance, EDM ini nggak akan membuatmu kecewa. Ia udah menciptakan karya musik sejak usia 12 tahun, which is sejak anak-anak. Cowok asal Moldova ini jenius banget! Ia punya puluhan single dan remix dan tahun 2014 ini, Andrew merilis album pertamanya, "Find Your Harmony", di bawah bendera label Armada music.

Ada sensasi dan kesenangan tersendiri ketika melepaskan diri untuk ngedance seru diiringi musik-musik ini. Sibuk beraktivitas boleh, tapi jangan lupa buat having fun ya guys!

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Recommended DJ Software in 2014

It’s that time of the year again ! The most popular post of all times on Digital DJ INFO website.

Who doesn’t like free stuff ? I know we all do. That’s why we carefully selected the best free and open source DJ software out there for our readers.

In addition to our 2013 list, there will be few more which I think you guys would like to try and use.

Below is the list of 10 best digital DJ control programs for your convenience. Enjoy.

1. Serato DJ INTRO

It sounds hard to believe, right ? Serato has a free edition.

The basic version of Serato with limited features and functions is compatible with Denon, Numark, Pioneer, Reloop and Vestax controllers.

All you need to do is visit their official product page, enter your email address, select the controller model and wait for the download link in your mailbox.

Keep in mind that it only supports Windows Vista and 7 on PC platform, also Mac OS.

Please read the minimum system requirements before you decide to use it.

2. Mixxx

This is one of the best free DJ software you can have. It’s open source and fully featured.

Itunes integration, compatibility with most DJ controllers, sync and recording are some of this great software’s features.

Please visit their website for more info and download instructions.

3. PartyCloud.fm

Here is your chance to mix 20 million songs !

Partycloud is different from the others. How ? Let me explain.

It’s browser-based, no downloads needed. Instant start for DJ’ing.

The music database comes from SoundCloud with 20 million choices. You naturally need an internet connection to perform.

All you need is type the song name in the search box.

Despite these great features, PartyCloud is limited in terms of being controller friendly. Only one controller is fully mapped for it which is Mixvibes U-Mix Control.

It’s your choice. if you like Partycloud, go ahead and buy the Mixvibes controller.

Visit PartyCloud website for more details.

4. Virtual DJ Home Edition

This is the free home edition of #1 DJ software in the world.

We didn’t put it in the first position. The reason is that the home edition is pretty limited for controller usage.

You have only 10 minutes with your controller and after that keyboard is in charge.

Like most free versions, Virtual DJ Home Edition also comes with lack of full functionality.

Please visit their official product page for more information and download.

You always have the option to upgrade to full version for a fee.

5. DJ PRODECKS

This might be a good choice if you want to use it at home just for practicing.

DJ Prodecks is controlled only with keyboard, other than that it’s fully featured.

Latest version is also compatible with Windows 8. Automix is one of the features of DJ Prodecks.

Please visit their website for more details and download instructions.

6. Blaze

Blaze is a completely free and non commercial DJ software developed by hobby DJs.

Features include but not limited to sync, BPM detection, looping and more.

You can use Blaze with your controller and customize the mapping.

Visit their website for details.

7. DJ ProMixer

Free version of DJ ProMixer has an audio setting limitation of 10 minutes, other than that it’s fully functional.

Good news is, you can upgrade to full version for a small fee, 1.99 €.

It has interesting features like downloading and converting videos from YouTube to MP3, complete audio setup including ASIO support, automix and more.

DJ ProMixer is also compatible with 22 controllers including Pioneer, Numark, Denon, Vestax, Reloop, Hercules, Ion and Behringer models.

Please visit their website and get all the details about this great product.

8. UltraMixer

#8 on our list is another demo version of pro DJ software.

In fact, you have options on this one. Either the Pro Demo version with full functions for 60 minutes and a restart (you can repeat this as much as you want), or a previous free version with only keyboard control. it’s your choice.

UltraMixer comes with lots of features that you would find on other major DJ software.

Go ahead and visit their website to find out how you can download it.

9. KraMixer

KraMixer is quite simple and for mostly home use. It doesn’t seem to be MIDI compatible as there are no settings for it.

Only keyboard I guess. But hey, it’s free, so worth a shot.

Here is the official website for the download link.

10. Zulu DJ Software

This is the last pick of our free DJ software list in 2014.

Zulu is free to use, but no MIDI controller support yet.

It has features like automatic beat detection, real-time pitch and tempo adjustment, sync between decks, effects, recording mixes and saving as audio file and more.

If you choose to try Zulu, here is the website link.

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Five Nights at Freddy's

About

Five Nights at Freddy’s is a point-and-click survival horror video game in which the player must survive five nights working as a security guard working at the Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza restaurant, avoiding being dismembered by the animatronic animals wandering the establishment.

Gameplay

The player sits in an office and monitors security cameras positioned throughout the restaurant to observe the animatronic mascots. The player has a limited amount of power to view camera feeds, light hallways and close the doors next to him. To advance to the next night, the player must survive from 12:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. The four animatronic characters that must be avoided are Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken and Foxy the Pirate. Foxy the Pirate is unique in that he will remain at the pirate cove unless triggered, causing him to rush the security office (shown below).

 

Online History

The game was developed by Scott Cawthon using Clickteam’s Fusion 2.5 engine. On June 13th, 2014, Cawthon submitted Five Nights at Freddy’s to the Steam Greenlight.^[7] On July 14th, the first trailer video for Five Nights at Freddy’s was uploaded to YouTube (shown below).

On July 24th, a demo of the game was released via indie games website IndieDB^[5] by user animdude. On August 9th, the full version of the game was released on the gaming website Desura.^[6] On August 13th, Cawthon’s Steam Greenlight submission was approved and the game was subsequently released via Steam store^[8] on August 18th.

Reception

The game earned a rating of 79 from Metacritic^[13] and a score of 8 (Great) from GameSpot.^[14] On August 24th, PC Gamer^[15] published a review which lauded the game by saying:

“Five Nights at Freddy’s gets clever with its simple presentation. It turned my sense of awareness against me, relying on my mind tricking itself to override logic. Those brilliant moments during my five hours playing it typically came after I fought down the urge to curl into a whimpering ball of tears and sweat. It’s a first-person horror game, but the boogeyman jumping out of the closet isn’t its payoff--it’s the creeping buildup of dread watching that doorknob slowly turn.”

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Trojan.Droidpak : Sebenarnya Tidak Berbahaya

Virus di Android memang sangat sedikit, hampir tidak terdengar, tapi baru-baru ini ditemukan lagi virus komputer dengan nama Trojan.Droidpak yang menginfeksi komputer dan mampu membahayakan OS Android, benarkah? oke, kita bahas dulu

Cara Kerja Trojan.Droidpak

Trojan.Droidpak pertama-tama bersarang di PC Windows dengan menciptakan file XTL dan me-register service baru di regedit "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\flashmx" berupa ekstensi .xtl (kalo gak salah) agar tetap aktif di memori biarpun komputer mengalami re-boot. Ia kemudian mengunduh file APK yang diletakkan di %Windir%\CrainingApkConfig\AV-cdk.apk (biasanya ke-detect sebagai Android.Fakebank.B) untuk dipasang secara diam-diam ke perangkat Android yang terhubung ke PC bersangkutan.

Tingkat bahaya Trojan.Droidpak

Hal tersebut bisa dilakukan apabila gadget Android yang terhubung menjalankan mode USB Debugging. Trojan.Droidpak kemudian membikin aplikasi Google Play Store palsu di gadget terinfeksi, lengkap dengan icon yang sama dengan toko aplikasi Google tersebut, tapi namanya sedikit berbeda, yaitu "Google App Store". Symantec turut menemukan bahwa malware ini mencari aplikasi online banking tertentu asal Korea Selatan, lalu berupaya menghapus serta menggantinya dengan versi lain yang sudah terinfeksi.

Trojan.Droidpak juga mencegat pesan-pesan SMS yang dikirimkan dari perangkat dan mengirimnya ke server kendali. Dari hal ini, bisa disimpulkan malware tersebut memiliki motif finansial atau bertujuan mencuri uang.

Penjelasan tentang Trojan.Droidpak

Umur Trojan ini masih jagung banget, sekitar 20 Januari 2014 lalu, penyebaran virus ini sangat lemah banget, dengan sistem Antivirus standar sekarang yang ada di Windows, tentu sebenernya sudah aman, selain itu juga ancaman bahaya nya rendah secara server kendali yang dimaksud sebelumnya sudah mati, dan cara mengatasinya pun mudah, tinggal scan via antivirus di market dan beres aja.

Tentu gak menutup kemungkinan pengembang virus nya berhenti sampai disitu, kalo kurang canggih ya bikin lagi, Androiders Mania juga gak boleh lengah walaupun OS Android salah satu yang kebal virus, tapi gak ada Sistem yang 100% sempurna, ya kan?

Source

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Fitur Baru BBM November 2014

BBM Terbaru di bulan November 2014 kini mendapat dua fitur terbaru yaitu 'Times Messages' dan 'Retract Messages' , Dua fitur ini berhubungan langsung dengan Chat di BBM, tampak bahwa kali ini fitur di BBM semakin lengkap dan keren.

Fitur Retract Messages ini fungsi nya kalo kita gak sengaja ngirim pesan, maksudnya kita gak ada maksud mengirim pesan itu dan ingin menghapusnya tanpa dibaca oleh penerima, caranya gampang, tingal tekan dan tahan, maka akan muncul menu 'Retract' pilih dan pesan pun hilang.

Kemudian ada lagi fitur yang menurut saya kurang begitu penting tapi boleh juga, yaitu Timed Messages dimana kita bisa mengatur timer untuk mengontrol seberapa lama pesan atau gambar yang kita kirim dilihat dan melakukan "self-destruct" alias menghancurkan sendiri.

Ini berarti pesan tersebut punya batas waktu khusus untuk bisa dibaca oleh penerima. Perlu diketahui kalo BBM yang bisa dikirimi pesan dengan pengaturan tersebut juga harus memiliki aplikasi BBM versi terbaru november 2014 ini, kalo enggak ya bakalan gagal dan tidak terkirim.

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Install Virtual DJ on Ubuntu [WORKED!]

Virtual DJ’ is also one of the leading MS Windows based music mixing software and many DJ hardware devices (such as those from ‘Pioneer’) include built-in support for ‘Virtual DJ’. But as a GNU/Linux user, the problem with ‘Virtual DJ’ is that it runs on Windows and Mac OS X only.

So I decided to see if it could be run on Ubuntu 13.10using ‘Wine’ (a tool that lets you run some of MS Windows software on GNU/Linux), and as you can see from the below screenshot, despite few small issues, I was quite successful in doing so.

I decided to write a simple ‘how to’ guide hoping that someone else might also find it useful. So, without any further delays, let us begin the ‘process’  .

What we need to do …

It is quite simple. First we need to install ‘Wine’ on Ubuntu (I am running 13.10 but the same instructions should work on other versions as well) & then we will install ‘Virtual DJ’ for Windows setup using it &, … that is it!.

1. Installing ‘Wine’ …

Open up the Terminal emulator and enter the below commands.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

sudo aNpt-get update

If you want the latest stable release of ‘Wine’ which is currently 1.6, then enter the below command.

sudo apt-get install wine1.6

If you want the latest unstable builds (which I do not recommend), then enter the below one instead.

sudo apt-get install wine1.7

On a newly installed Ubuntu machine, ‘Wine’ needs to download around 240-250MB of data, so it might take a little while to download. While installing a downloaded package (Microsoft’s proprietary fonts), you will have to ‘agree’ its EULA terms, & you can use the ‘Tab’ key and the ‘Arrow keys’ on your keyboard for selecting the correct buttons (shown below).

The rest is pretty much automatic.

2. Installing ‘Virtual DJ’ …

Download ‘Virtual DJ’ 7.4.1 for Windows from this page. Once it finishes downloading, go to the downloaded location and double click on the ‘Virtual DJ’ setup file. Before executing the installer, ‘Wine’ will configure its settings first (only happens when you open it for the first time).

Then it will open-up the installer, just like on Windows.

One thing to note is that, when you come to choosing installation method and you if chose ‘Typical’, then wait for few seconds for the ‘Install’ step to appear (shown below).

When all is done, click on the ‘Finish’ button and now you should see a ‘Virtual DJ Home Free’ shortcut icon on your Ubuntu desktop. This is pretty much it, now you should be able to run it by simply double clicking on it.

The Issues …

As mentioned in the beginning, I am not a DJ and thus, I can not go into heavy details. But, except for few minor issues, pretty much all the other features that ‘Virtual DJ’ present you with on Windows, worked on Ubuntu also! (including ‘Sound Setup’, Skins, effects, audio recording etc).

Issue 1 …

The only major issue is related to Window management. If you try to maximize ‘Virtual DJ’ and then unmaximize it (also happens if you try to minimize it) then the whole desktop gets stuck. The only fix is to open Terminal emulator (by pressing ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Shift’ + ‘T’ keys) and restart the display manager by using the below command.

sudo restart lightdm

Although the desktop can be recovered through it, you will lose all the opened application windows and their data. If you however can avoid using the ‘Minimize’ & ‘Maximize’ buttons, you should be fine.

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Optional …

You can somewhat fix this by using ‘Winetricks’ utility that comes with ‘Wine’.

After opening it (shown above), choose: ‘Select the default wineprefix‘ -> ‘OK‘ -> ‘Change Settings‘ -> ‘OK‘ -> ‘windowmanagermanaged=no Prevent window manager from controlling windows‘ -> ‘OK.  Now close the ‘Winetricks’ window (two windows that pop-up, one after the other).

After this, whenever you minimize ‘Virtual DJ’ it will be located around the bottom left-corner of the ‘Application Launcher’ (on ‘Trash’ but you can move the icon) and you can restore it by clicking on its icon.

It’s ugly, but hey, better than nothing  …

This does not solve it completely as the desktop gets stuck if you click on the ‘Maximize’ button, but you can recover it by: 1. unmaximize ‘Virtual DJ’, 2. minimizing it, 3. then bringing it to front again (it is weird, but it works).

BIG THANKS TO : http://www.hecticgeek.com/2014/02/virtual-dj-7-4-ubuntu-13-10/

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