This £169 control deck plugs into your PC and can be used to mix, scratch, pitch-shift and loop MP3s. We held a small party at Crave this morning, using the Hercules to mix songs. Even with limited professional DJ skills, you can produce remixes to rival the best that a Capital Radio pretender is capable of.
A few hours spent with these and you begin to wonder whether DJ Shadow's entire back-catalogue has been rendered redundant. Like an audience with the Wizard Of Oz, the curtain slides back to reveal that a few button presses here and there will create the same sounds we've had marketed to us under the guise of 'dance music'. What a cruel ruse. If a twenty-something tech journalist can better the efforts of Fat Boy Slim, what value does this skill really have in the modern world?
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