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A YouTube guy named Andy, user named TheRasteri has a solution - he hacked Pioneer DJ XDJ-R2 to run the classic video game DOOM . In the video, the user can be seen plugging a USB stick into the R2, as well as a keyboard into the second USB port and loading the game onto the touchscreen. He discovered earlier this year that Pioneer DJ’s onboard computers not only run Linux and could potentially boot custom firmwares from USB sources. Instructions to get this to work : (do not attempt this unless you’re good at soldering/linux/etc) 1. Cross-compile fbDOOM for ARM – https://github.com/maximevince/fbDOOM 2. Put it on a USB stick alongside DOOM.WAD from the shareware release (or full version if you like) 3. Connect a 3.3v UART to port CN1002 on the main PCB (1=3.3v, 2=TXD, 3=RXD, 4=GND) 4. Get Root ( https://twitter.com/G33KatWork/status… ) 5. kill rbp 6. run fbDOOM from the usb stick (it gets mounted in /media/usbx/sda1) If you want to give it a go yourself, he also posted instructions

The Chemical Brothers are auctioning off one of the touring Roland Boutique TB-03 bassline synths as part of a fundraiser for the #ILoveLive campaign, aimed to raise money for backline staff and stage crew during the pandemic.  Tom and Ed from the Chemical Brothers explained:  “This is a favourite piece of our live gear that we’ve sadly not been able to use this year on the road, so it seems a suitable fund-raiser for music crew and technicians across the UK. Hopefully, it will also help someone else keep working & create something special in the future”  To be in with a chance of winning the TB-03, donate to the cause HERE . The auction runs until December 17, and the winner will be announced on December 23th. [ source ]

Richie Hawtin releases ‘ Time Warps ’, his first dancefloor-centric EP since ‘Minus Orange’, released in 1999.  This is the first release from From Our Minds (FOM1) , a new extension of Hawtin’s Plus 8 label.  In this new release, Hawtin gives us a couple of new club songs, secretly recorded and with a combined duration of more than 30 minutes.  "Time Warps" portrays the blurred and stretched perception of time that has been so characteristic in 2020. Richie Hawtin’s ‘Time Warps’ is now available digitally and on vinyl from December 4th. Richie Hawtin · Richie Hawtin - Time Warps Hawtin and long-time collaborator Barbara Klein worked together to create a full-length video portrait to capture the atmosphere and feelings of the main track ‘Time Warps’. [ source ]

  Awakenings promotes # technotogether campaign with all ravers, artists, managers, and other members of the techno community.  Through this movement , they seek to make a powerful statement to the government of the Netherlands and to the rest of the world so that people involved in the industry are taken seriously in this context in which an entire culture is in danger of disappearing.  "As soon as creative companies and institutions do not survive this crisis, there will be no more new artists or other creatives on this stage to build. Think photographers, dancers, DJs, sound and light professionals, the production team, bar staff, club and event managers, the list goes on and on", they explain in a statement.  To spread the message they created a video, a Photoshop filter, a Facebook filter, and an Instagram filter so they can join together ‘from listeners to ravers, from artists to festival and club teams, managers, agents, and vendors’.  Check out the video and so

Underplayed is the feature debut of New Zealand-born director Stacey Lee , who has been shortlisted for the Cannes Young Directors Award. Underplayed, in its 90 minute runtime, manages to show us the beautiful, diverse and talented multitude of people making electronic music — their history, and their hopeful future, throughout are the particular stories of a handful of women as they follow their dreams: Rezz, Alison Wonderland, TOKiMONSTA, Nervo, Sherelle, Nightwave, Tygapaw and Louisahhh. “I don’t like to talk about it a lot, but there is definitely sexism in the music industry.” - Alison Wonderland   [ source ]

Oregon became the first state to legalize the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms ,  psilocybin , that saw more states ease restrictions on recreational drugs across the country. Through Measure 110, which has captured more than 58% of the vote so far, Oregon would also decriminalize the possession of small amounts of some hard drugs, including heroin and LSD .  Instead of criminal prosecution, people in possession would face a $100 fine, which can be waived if the person agrees to pursue treatment, according to the measure. In addition to psychedelics, a number of states asked voters to choose a path forward for their regulation of marijuana, too. In New Jersey and Arizona, voters legalized the recreational use of marijuana. [ source ] 

 Charlotte de Witte has taken the No.1 spot in this year’s Alternative Top 100 DJs 2020, Powered by Beatport.  The Belgian techno dj  shot up from the No.7 spot to dethrone Carl Cox, who has claimed the No.1 title every year since the poll launched in 2018. “It’s probably the strangest year to become No.1 DJ since no one has really been DJing,” she says, “but yeah, it does mean a lot. It’s a big, big, big milestone.” In 2018, we launched the DJ Mag Alternative Top 100 DJs poll, with results generated by combining Top 100 DJs voting data with techno and house sales data from the world’s largest online electronic music shops. Check the full list HERE . [ source ] 

Techno and house events now qualify as concerts following the ruling of a German high finance court.  Clubs now only have to pay a 7% tax on ticket sales whereas previously they needed to fork over 19% .  So long as a club’s average visitor is there for the music, said the court, its owners qualify for the tax cut.  Accordingly, the law now formally recognizes DJs as musicians and techno as music. CDJs, turntables and mixers are also now defined as instruments. Alcohol sales have no bearing on a club’s eligibility.  The judgement was handed down on July 23rd but only published on October 29th. The legislation speaks to German lawmakers continued recognition of electronic music’s cultural value; in 2016 Berghain saw a similar tax break after a court deemed it “high art.”  Meanwhile, bars, clubs and venues in Germany will be forced to close from November 2nd-30th on account of a fall COVID-19 resurgence throughout much of Europe. [ source ]