Years upon years ago, I sold my bass amp and bought a couple of shitty Numarks with a shitty mixer and started DJing. It was a blast and I’ve never regretted it. But now that we’re moving into the 21st century, it’s time to ditch the belt-driven turntables of the past and embrace the digital movement. Numark’s “NUMARK TOTAL COMPUTER DJ IN A BOX” has the worst name ever, but the right idea is there. It’s a MIDI controller with built-in mixing board, headphones, an I/O interface and you score a copy of Traktor LE software. It won’t turn you into Justice anytime soon, but it’s a good start.

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You absolutely have to check out the above video with audio on. The crude device is called the Abelincoln Live, which is surely a pun on the popular sequencing software Ableton Live. It’s a sampler, so you can do a lot of fun, noisy things with it. Utilizing three voice recorder units and a passive 3-channel mixer, Abelincoln has plenty of ways to let you mod your recording.

While the rest of the details are extremely intricate, anyone who can solder and assemble the parts should be able to make their very own Abelincoln. Now all you need is a bag of shrooms to make your music worth listening to.

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Unless your name is Paul Van Dyk or Matthew Edwards, chances are you won’t be able to spend $3120 on a DJ workstation. After all, if your card-table-in-the-living-room setup isn’t working out, you’re probably destined for your local bar instead of a nightclub. Those of you who have mastered the 1200s, however, can can gaze upon designer Reynold Rodriguez’s DJ workstation.

Made from composite wood with four areas that can hold sets of Technics, CDJs, laptops or whatever it is you use, it’ll really do a nice job of hiding the ugly sets of cables and dust that come associated with DJing. Should you need it custom-built for your setup, it can be done for a heightened price.

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The question that springs to mine is “How’d they do it?”. The answer is still unclear, but then again, who the hell cares?! It’s a friggen iPod DJ Mixing Studio for under 40 friggen dollars! The device connects an any iPod or music device with an audio output and lets you create your own digital mixing effects for a minimal price related to other mixing equipment on the market. For such a minimal price, we can’t imagine that the quality of the miJam is as good as some of the more expensive ones are…or is it?

The miJam comes with two discs, that when rotated, create six different background fills, 3 drum, and 3 voice effects. Volume and tempo controls on the mixer assure that your effects can be heard over the volume of the music. It also can be connected to both PC’s and Mac’s so your DJing skills can be saved and shared with millions. Supposedly it’s good for ages 8 and up, but any parent that buys their 8 year old an iPod deserves to be shot. — Andrew Dobrow

iPod DJ Mixing Studio [Book Of Joe]