The future of LED moving head effects has never looked brighter - or smaller, or “greener”! American DJ has introduced two revolutionary new LED-powered DMX moving heads, the Vizi LED Spot and Vizi Wash LED 108, that deliver a super-brilliant high output, along with loads of professional effects and features in an amazingly compact, energy-efficient package.

During the last year, the technical and buying teams at equipment retailers Terralec have commissioned a new range of products, designed specifically with their customers’ needs in mind, taking into account quality, ease of use and price.

The new Impulse 12D powered enclosure features a true ribbon driver and a 12” Peavey Black Widow® loudspeaker engineered with dual voice coil, push-pull technology and a neodymium magnet. A Woofer Servo circuit monitors back-EMF and controls cone motion, ensuring the cone’s movement mirrors the driving signal from the power amp, resulting in very low distortion, high power handling and rock-solid low-frequency attack. The advanced new ribbon driver - an exclusive Peavey design based on the ribbons used in the Peavey Versarray™ line array - provides 90° H x 30° V coverage, with sonically transparent reproduction.

The art of DJing is now in the digital age, and the next generation of DJ mixers needs to keep pace. The brand new DJM-2000 is Pioneer’s most powerful performance mixer and is the perfect match for the brand’s flagship CDJ-2000 digital decks.

DVJ Vision and Black Hole Recordings have teamed up to release Pixel Girls, a ground-breaking new visuals DVD. Pixel Girls contains eight original and sexy visions by director and VJ, Christopher Andrew. He creates a fantasy digital world, where beautiful women merge with technology. All visuals are edited and beat-synched to new releases from Dutch electronic dance label Black Hole Recordings, which was co-founded and owned by DJ Tiësto.

Since their explosion onto the UK DJ lighting scene just a few years ago, American DJ have rapidly become established in the market. Part of this success must be attributed to their dedication to pushing the boundaries of lighting effect technology and the truly unique key products that they launch from time to time. The new Jelly Fish is one of these units.

The Mood Cluster is the latest innovative addition to the Kam laser range. Bringing together 40mW green and 100mW red laser diodes with a 9 watt RGB LED, the Mood Cluster generates a mesmerising effect that is unlike anything else currently on the market.

Martin Professional have recently announced the launch of the new Jem ZR44 Hi-Mass™, a reliable and highly efficient fog machine capable of precise fog delivery from subtle to massive. Ideal for a variety of settings from small venues to the largest halls and leisure centres, this Jem ZR33 Hi-Mass upgrade is a solid, professional machine that features advanced technology for top-quality performance, including advances in digital functionality.

Make a little pandemonium on the dance-floor with Chauvet’s newest fixture, the Mayhem, an LED double barrel effect that creates multi-coloured beams of light from six high-power 3W RGB LEDs.

Peavey recently announced the launch of their new EU™ Series class D powered loudspeaker enclosures, including the EU 112D and EU 115D two-way loudspeakers and EU 118D subwoofer. The EU 112D and EU 115D enclosures showcase the new 12” Peavey Black Widow® BWX-DVC Neo loudspeaker, engineered with dual voice coil, push-pull technology and a neodymium magnet. A Woofer Servo circuit monitors back-EMF and controls cone motion, ensuring the cone’s movement mirrors the driving signal from the power amp and resulting in very low distortion, high power handling and rock-solid low-frequency attack.

The RM.416 is the latest in Stanton’s RM (Rack Mount) series of DJ mixers. Stanton, industry leaders in the design and manufacture of professional audio products for DJs, have created a feature-packed mixer to satisfy the most demanding mobile and club DJs. With four channels coupled with two microphone channels—in addition to a vast array of traditional connectivity—the RM.416 features a USB connection for either playing music from a software application or recording a mix in real-time.

With a very impressive 460mW from its red, green and blue laser diodes, the new Pegasus 3 from Equinox gives an incredible four colour quad laser light show featuring red, green, yellow and blue beams. Perfect for mobile DJs, the latest incarnation of the Pegasus is the ultimate multi-beam, multi-colour, laser show in a single box!

This coming Sunday (7th March 2010) equipment retailer CRS1 will be hosting their unique ‘Mobile DJ Show’ dealer day in Lacey Green, Buckinghamshire. The event will once again be held at the Lacey Green Millennium Hall located just across the road from CRS1’s Entertainment House store. Taking place from 2pm until 6pm, this is always a great afternoon offering visitors an opportunity to see the latest gear, pick up a bargain or two and network with fellow mobile DJs.

Boasting the same form factor as Denon’s famous twin CD controllers for mobile DJs, the new Denon DN-HC5000 is a dedicated professional controller for Serato® ITCH™. The DN-HC5000 provides the same control and performance capabilities as the company’s long time market leading DJ twin CD systems, with dedicated hardware control of Serato's leading DJ software for digital music files.

Lamba PLC, the company behind popular mobile DJ gear brand Kam, are currently looking to recruit a new Area Sales Manager. The company are seeking a motivated and professional individual to join their Sales Division. It is essential that they have field sales experience.

Club Candy TV is a unique new visuals DVD, from visual content producer Phil Bearman, featuring filmed professional dancers combined with stunning animated backgrounds. It is designed for video DJs to use when playing a track which has no music video and is exclusively distributed by MixMash.

When Jimmie Hontz Jr. and Rachel Welch exchanged their vows on their very special wedding day on Wednesday 10th February, their wedding was traditional in every way. There were flowers, a tiered wedding cake, champagne, a minister . . . and about 500 DJs! Jimmie and Rachel, who are both DJs themselves, decided that the annual American DJ Mobile Beat Party would be the ideal locale for their special day, where they were sure to be in the company of people who share their passion for good music and good entertainment.

Peavey have recently introduced two new mixers to the renowned Peavey XR® Series powered-mixer line, the XR 1220 console and rack-mountable XR 1212, featuring patented Peavey technology and extensive digital signal processing.

Popular gear brand Kam have a busy year planned, promoting their gear at a host of events all over the world. Kam got 2010 off to a great start with the Space New Year’s Day party in Sidney, Australia, which boasted an impressive DJ line-up including Radio One’s Pete Tong. Kam’s KHP1500 headphones were used at the event by a number of DJs including DJ Villeneuve.

German headphone manufacturers Ultrasone have recently announced the release of their latest special edition headphone – Edition 8 Palladium. Based on the design of the original Edition 8 headphone, these new special edition headphones incorporate lavish accoutrements to create the best sounding and most elegant pair of Ultrasone headphones to date.

Allen & Heath have created a one-off special edition of their popular Xone:4D mixer controller for renowned DJ endorser, Paul van Dyk. Used for the first time at last year’s Amsterdam Dance Event, Paul’s modified version includes VCA rotary faders rather than the standard linear faders. There is also custom-designed silk screening for the faceplate with Paul’s name in UV paint.

DJs your “quest” for the perfect LED lighting effect has come to an end, now that American DJ has unleashed the new LED Quest. Powered by a massive 15 watts of heart-thumping LED power, this easy-to-operate sound-active effect shoots out bright red, green and blue rotating beams from 19 lenses to cover an entire dance floor or other large area.

Apple have ended weeks of speculation with the launch of its iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading e-books and much more.

At the recent Winter NAMM exhibition that took place in Anaheim, California, early this year popular DJ gear brand Numark unveiled a clutch of new products including the MIXDECK. This innovative new product is Numark’s hi-tech reinvention of the classic DJ twin deck. This single piece of kit allows DJs to select, manipulate and mix together music from CDs, USB storage devices, an iPod and a laptop.

A new mobile phone technology called Near Field Communication (NFC) will begin to replace traditional wallets and purses from 2011, according to a new research report published recently. Banks and mobile network operators will both be seeking to make money from the introduction of the new mobile payments technology, the report predicts, and are set to go head to head in a bid to gain control of the market.