Vellu Maurola is a very cool man indeed. Not just because he has cool hair, calls himself DJ Slow, and is DJing at the Nokia World conference using two N91 mobile phones connected up to a set of decks. Although that is pretty cool. But because he made them himself. I caught up with the Finnish DJ as he dropped (is that the right word?) Peggy Lee’s ‘Fever’, to find out more.
"It’s a mobile setup that I invented a couple of years ago," he says. "You have these MP3 controllers in the software, and the phone is connected via USB as an external hard drive, so you can browse the songs. I only need one device to play the songs, but there are two reasons why I have two. First, if one crashes, I can use the other one. And second, it looks much better!"
"One thing that’s different is that you’re browsing through file names, which is weird for me, because I like to see things, y’know, colours and shapes. Maybe one corner of a record sleeve is broken, for example, and I will remember that it’s good. It’s confusing when you only see file names. Maybe the answer will be to have a small picture on the screen of the cover like iTunes does."
Source: Tech Digest
More information about the DJ here: DJ Slow
I’ve seen people DJ with minidics, ipods, and now N91’s. What’s next?!