The peripheral, dubbed the Scratch Deck, is a collaboration between real mixer manufacturer Numark and electronics manufacturer Genius. It allows for realtime turntable mixing, while five promised-to-be-authentic Akai Pro MPC-style drum pads trigger various samples. A crossfader, USB mic and right/left-handed controls round out the options while the game allows players to battle it out "in distinctive urban environments."

Available this fall, I'm just praying that Harmonix announces a new DJ game of their own at E3 so my turntable trifecta pays out. [Press Release]

Packing some serious hardware—Dual Pioneer DVJ-X1 DVD Players, Edirol V-4 Video Mixer, 3 Marshal LCD Monitors, 5 subwoofers, 3 tweeters, 1100 Watt Power Amplifier and an Allen and Heath Xone 92 Audio Mixer—the company still claims "there's not an ounce of excess."

The Baby Grand Masters are for sale, but the amount is disclosed by inquiry only. In other words, it might just make you baroque.

– Mark Wilson

Product Page [via therawfeed]

This is the latest in Stanton's arsenal of next-gen DJ equipment. No longer will crates of vinyl be needed at DJ gigs, just pop the C.314 in and go to town. Stanton claims this device is user friendly, I just think it looks pretty. The large touch-sensitive jog wheel in the middle allows for scratching and beat juggling—whatever the hell that mean—to be done with ease and finesse. Also included is a memory that can store cue points and loops for up to 500 CDs. The C.314 also has high quality DSP effects and other block rockin' features. Did I mention it looks pretty? Oooh, shiny! – Travis Hudson

Stanton C.314 Tabletop CD/MP3 Player [BIOS]

The Behringer BCD2000 B-Control Deejay would seem to cover all the bases on the cheap (US$200 street). For DJs and laptop music, there are 4 channels of audio connected to your computer via USB, with 2 phono preamps, headphone out, and mic in. (So, yes, you can do that whole "two turntables and a microphone" thing.) But this isn't just a DJ mixer: every knob, button, and fader sends MIDI, so you can use it to control whatever music or visual software you like. There are even jog wheels for simple scratching.

Australian VJ Jaymis Loveday reviews the gear, and concludes that it fits the bill, as a cheap entry in digital DJing or a do-all controller for music and visuals. The bad news: MIDI assignments are fixed, meaning some software will need some tricky workarounds. – Peter Kirn

BCD200 Review [Create Digital Music]

It appears, however, because each devices uses old-timey tubes and contains some lead, Allen & Heath might have to stop producing some of their more famous models. Thanks to the England's Reduction of Hazardous Substances Act—originally designed to prevent unscrupulous junk vendors from dumping loads of toxic crap on an unsuspecting public—these classics will probably go the way of the dodo.

Product Page [Allen & Heath]
Allen & Heath Xone DJ Mixers: Risking Extinction [RetroThing]

Product Page [Faderfox] (Thanks, Blip!)

Vuksics project, called Harddisko, involves special microphones being attached to the heads of decased, defective hard drives. The microphones are then connected to a mixer. When the drives are powered they conduct initialization tests that involve the heads moving in a specific pattern that creates the noises. Each noise is different depending on the hard drive manufacturer, model, firmware, etc. Vuksic rigged up a system of different, fully-controllable power circuits for interval timing. This project is on display at Aarau in Switzerland through April 2.

Raw hard disk sound [We-make-money]

Big controls for iPod scroll wheel and transport buttons, Ins and outs for connecting other gear (like, say, a turntable?, 2-channel mixer, 3-band EQ, USB connection to Mac/PC; full docking support, S-Video out for iPod Photo, Recording support (in iPod)

It will be available in the third quarter of 2006 and be priced at $399. Quite nice. [Thanks, Sam]

NAMM: Numark Launches iDJ Mixer for iPod at $399? (Unconfirmed) [CreateDigitalMusic]