We like observing trends at Crossfadr, from the shoes people take to the dance floor all the way up to the intangible swells that roll through the industry. We celebrate the differences between the Sydney and Seattle scenes. We’ve enjoyed watching jungle evolve through myriad hybrid faces and emerge again, victorious, as dubstep; the...

The first thing you notice when you boot up Algoriddim’s djay, $20 USD on the Mac App Store, is its simplicity. It’s luxuriantly spacious – but it is a polished interface, featuring two big 1200-style platters complete with pilot lamps. These, and not the waveforms, are the focus of the screen, and when you drop a track...

The explosion of music apps across a range of platforms has been a recurring theme for us here at Crossfadr, as we keep an eye on the dynamic world of DJ tech. We’ve seen apps that emulate hardware, apps that control software and a few rare apps that offer something completely different, but the question remains – are apps really...

Hands up if you’re reading this on a phone? A tablet? Are you at work? On a bus? You can do this because Crossfadr is made to be supported by multiple platforms – it’ll look and behave much the same in Opera as it will in Chrome or IE; your smartphone will see it differently, but on all smartphones it’ll be basically...

We’ve covered a lot of Mixvibes products here at Crossfadr. They’re a prolific little company, going head to head with a prodigious barrage of hardware, software, and apps – so far centred almost exclusively around their flagship mixing program Cross - against some titanic competition. Unlike the slower-moving juggernauts,...