Behind The Beats: Tracing The History Of The CDJ

Behind The Beats is our new video series where we give you the inside story of dance culture’s most iconic DJ gear. We’re kicking things off with Pioneer DJ’s CDJ, arguably the most popular media player in electronic dance music today. We pick apart the main features of the CDJ-2000NXS2 and trace their origins from CDJs past starting from the very first CDJ-500 in 1994. Check out the video below.

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