Friday Five: New Console Game Lets You Be A Mashup DJ

A pretty cool looking new console game is our lead story, as we take a look back through the last seven days in the wider world of DJing in our regular round-up of DJ-related stories from around the world. The good, the bad and the plain bizarre are all fair game for Friday Five!

1. Rock Band and Guitar Hero Creator Announced Fuser, A DJ Mash-Up Game – Coming later this year for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC, this looks like the best attempt yet at a DJ/producer mashup game. Cnet has it Read more
2. Have We Hit Peak Festival? Festivals, it has to be remembered, are not something that have been around forever – certainly not to the scale they are nowadays. So will they keep growing, or have we hit “peak festival”? DJ Mag investigates Read more
3. The Art Of Production With Ron Trent – Resident Advisor gets inside the studio (and creative mind) of a true house music innovator, active since the mid-80s Read more
4. DJ On Bus To Play “Marathon Set” At Iconic Running Event – London Marathon organisers have organised a bus to drive at the back of “the pack” for the slowest runners, with a DJ on board, playing an, ahem, marathon eight-hour set, reports Runners World Read more
5. Turn Brushing Your Teeth Into A DJ Set With This Bizarre App – Got kids? Be the coolest DJ parent in town by downloading the Brush DJ app and getting your kids to use it when brushing their teeth. All tracks are exactly 2 minutes long… Read more

That’s it for this week, have a great weekend and we’ll see you on the other side…