Milan's mischievous crunk house tag team Crookers are primed to be the next dance music superstars. Prior to a momentous gig at London's top dance fest Get Loaded In The Park, in August, and a forthcoming debut album, DJmag collars the Italian pranksters to find out how they do things, Crookers style...

Jon Carter and Alex Blanco discover that Akai's new APC40 Controller is the perfect bedfellow for Ableton Live

Pacemaker is a portable music player and mixer with all the features you need to deejay anywhere, anytime. Instead of simply listening to your music you can now completely interact with it and the possibilities are only limited by your own imagination.

The EVO5 is amongst the new breed of mixers taking centre stage in the digital DJ rig, but should it be your nerve centre?

Native Instuments' next generation of groove production studio brings together hardware and software.

Functional, versatile and easy-to-use, Allen & Heath's new budget mixer is their cheapest yet

Is the Finnish EKS company coming of age with their new Otus digital DJing interface?

Is the Finnish EKS company coming of age with this new digital DJing interface?

It's a massive thumbs-up for our new-look Tech Awards at this year's BPM show at Donington Park

His M-audio Xponent - and here's why...