2013 Pioneer DJ Art Mix Charity Auction

A few short years ago, Pioneer allowed famous DJ's to use their CDJ decks as an art canvas to make some really cool pieces that were auctioned off for charity. Fast forward to today and Pioneer DJ has re-initiated it's efforts and this time the CDJ-2000NEXUS units have been nicely decorated and are currently being auctioned off at charitybuzz.com/pioneerdjartmix with all proceeds generated going to VH1 Save The Music Foundation, to restore music education programs in public schools.

Author:: DJ Blaze
Publish date:: Oct 30, 2013

A few short years ago, Pioneer allowed famous DJ's to use their CDJ decks as an art canvas to make some really cool pieces that were auctioned off for charity. Fast forward to today and Pioneer DJ has re-initiated it's efforts and this time the CDJ-2000NEXUS units have been nicely decorated and are currently being auctioned off at

charitybuzz.com/pioneerdjartmix

with all proceeds generated going to the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, to restore music education programs in public schools.

The List of different DJ's and organizations taking part in this effort is stunning. Head on over to the website to check out these nice works of art and place your bid for this excellent charity before Friday November 1st when the auctions close.

2013 PIONEER DJ ART MIX PARTICIPANTS

DJs

· Kaskade

· Zedd

· NERVO

· Dada Life

· A-Trak

· Laidback Luke

· Markus Schulz

· Cosmic Gate

· Crystal Hefner

· James Zabiela

· Morgan Page

· 12th Planet

· Ferry Corsten

· DJ Vice

· DJ Hapa

· Fei Fei

· Manufactured Superstars

Brands

· Rukes.com

· LRG

· Five-Axis

Artists

· Claw Money

· Jesse Dean Designs

· MEEX

· Couto Brothers

· Joex2

· Danielle Jade Gonzalez

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DJbooth.net team was on-hand at the Atlantic City DJ Expo last week and we are pleased to bring you the Pioneer Booth Video where you can see the entire Pioneer booth as it looked in all its glory. The CDJ-850, CDJ-900, and CDJ-2000's were on display with their nice assortment of mixers and plenty more. Video inside.

Every year, Pioneer DJ has the biggest and best exhibit in all of the DJ Expo Land. This year, Pioneer has its entire new lineup of controllers, CDJ's, mixers, and speakers on-had for everyone to use and purchase. The new DJM-750 four-channel mixer was on display with a set of CDJ-850's. The platinum limited edition Nexus setup also made an appearance. The XDJ-R1, DDJ-SX, and S-DJ X speaker lineup were all setup and ready to go and we have an exclusive S-DJ X speaker walkthrough coming shortly.

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Pioneer DJ is offering something special to DJ's who want to stand out from the crowd but still want the same latest and greatest features found in the flagship Pioneer DJ Setup. For NAMM 2013, Pioneer DJ has announced its Platinum Limited Edition setup which will include two platinum edition CDJ-2000nexus-M CD decks and a DJM-900nexus-M DJ mixer all for the cool price of $8500. The platinum limited edition RMX-1000-M is also available for $1200. Check out the video and full press release inside.

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The Pioneer CDJ-2000nexus is the latest and greatest CD and Multimedia deck that Pioneer has ever created. The new CDJ-2000nexus includes the Slip Mode function that was found on the CDJ-900's but was inexplicably left off of the original CDJ-2000. The Slip Mode allows DJ's to manipulate a track via loops, cue points, and platter movements while the track continues to play underneath so when the manipulation is complete, the track will continue to play in the position it would have been if there were no outside influence. Check out the Pioneer Tutorial video inside to see the Slip Mode in action.

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