Flying Lotus - Los Angeles - Review

Flying Lotus Out On Warp

Flying Lotus’s new album Los Angeles is the first review by Kookin

With it’s strange mix of electronic sounds and harmonics with hip hop beats the album lets you chill out and tune in at the same time.

Some of the earlier tracks in the album are atmospheric and as the album goes on it becomes a bit more beat lead, it’s a nice wee progression.

You will probably hear me talk alot about ‘Sunday Morning Albums’ well people, Flying Lotus Los Angeles is the first of the year for me!

You can pick up Flying Lotus Los Angeles CD and vinyl at amazon.co.uk for the same price but I must say if you do like your vinyl you should get this one, its sleeve is impressive!

What we thought of the Behringer BCD3000

Behringer BCD3000 USB dj controller our review

Well as mentioned before we at Kookin have been playing with some of the digital toys out there. This time it is the Behringer BCD3000 that has caught our intention.

The Behringer BCD3000 was released in 2007 and is in the mid-price range for this type of controller. To be honest I am very impressed with it; the build quality is pretty decent, and once you get it up an running with Traktor (dj software) you can whack about the crossfader and knobs and it doesn’t feel as if it’s about to break!

I’m using the Behringer BCD3000 with Traktor (in my opinion the best dj software out there). I used it initially with a Window XP machine with a celeron processor and 2 gig of ram. I had loads of problems with it jerking and pausing it was unusable, so I went and got a MacBook Pro. God damn it works well, I’m not saying you need to get a top of the range computer to get good use out of it just make sure you have the absolute minimum requirements which my PC didn’t have. After running it on a compliant computer I realised how good it was for the money, £145, you can do everything that a normal mixer can do and what I really like is that you can plug your decks into it and mix mp3’s and vinyl, I think it adds diversity to your set. I’m still working out how to use it with other apps like cubase and Ableton Live but it looks fairly simple.

Some people will turn there nose up at the Behringer BCD3000 because it’s not some big dj brand name like Vestax. If you are looking to try out a mp3 mixer for the first time you don’t want to blow £300 on a mp3 mixer to find if you like it or not then the Behringer BCD3000 is for you.

I think it’s a great toy and would recommend it to anyone!

You can pick up the Behringer BCD3000 at Dolphin Music for £146.00.

Resources:
Helpful site
BCD3000 USB dj controller .tks files

Kookin Music Reviews

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Kookin at the Queen’s Park Carnival

Get down to the Queen’s Park Carnival on August 23rd

Kookin will be playing their stuff at the Queen’s Park Carnival on the 23rd of August alongside some of Glasgow’s best known DJ’s, such as JD Twitch, Andrew Divine, Furious Breaks and LOADS more!

This lovely wee event (I say wee but there is actually 15 DJ’s then an aftershow, so it ain’t wee) is all in the name of Childline and all the proceeds go straight to them so get on down and shake your thang!!