Strawberries & Creem festival has partnered with Pioneer DJ for a competition to discover the UK's best new DJ talent.

The DJSUNLOCKED competition will see two DJs win the chance to play a paid set on one of the main stages at next month's edition of Strawberries & Creem. The first prize also includes a selection of Pioneer DJ equipment, including a controller, headphones and monitors.

SHERELLE is the latest artist in the return of our How I DJ series, powered by Pioneer DJ. In this episode, SHERELLE shares DJ tips and techniques including how to DJ with FX, playlisting in Rekordbox and using hot cues.

Our new series of How I DJ explores the unique styles of different artists, as they demonstrate their skills and techniques. With breakdowns of different ways to use a variety of DJ tech, artists give us an insight into their unique approach to DJing.

The next episode in the return of our DJ Mag Originals series, How I DJ — powered by Pioneer DJ — has premiered today (4th August) with SHERELLE. You can watch the full episode below.

The first episode in the return of our DJ Mag Originals series, How I DJ — powered by Pioneer DJ — has premiered today (14th July) with James Hype. You can watch the full episode below.

Pioneer DJ has launched a new series of near-field DJ and studio monitors, the VM range. The VM comes in three sizes: five-inch cone, seven-inch cone and eight-inch cone and all three sizes come with DSP technology to ‘tune’ the speaker to the space that they’re placed in. They’re designed to be used for both DJ monitoring at home when either practising, preparing your set and live streaming – where the speakers can be tuned to have more of a ‘hyped’ sound – and for use in the studio where you can switch the frequency response back to flat.

DJ EZ has dropped a new video with Pioneer DJ showcasing some of the new features of the new flagship CDJ-3000s. Throughout the four-minute video, EZ shows off some of his trademark mixing and performance skills including rapid cueing, creating new rhythms by triggering samples on the new horizontal hot cue buttons, using the white noise generator on the DJM-900 mixer to emulate scratching and pitching sounds up and down to create a new melody using the pitch fader. 

Pioneer DJ has announced a new series of updates that means their products will work with macOS Big Sur, Apple’s latest operating system. On an update on their website, the DJ giants revealed a list of products that will work with the new OS, including CDJ-3000, DJM-900nxs2 and their DDJ series of controllers. Some products will require an updated driver, which you can download here. 

Pioneer DJ has launched a new two-channel battle mixer, the DJM-S7. The mixer is a more affordable version of the popular S9 mixer, and features the same two FX levers, eight performance pads per channel with hot cue, sampler, and more, Magvel fader pro crossfader, three-band EQ and filter per channel and some new features including Bluetooth input so send loops and samples to the mixer from your mobile device and Loop MIDI mode that lets you control samples and loops from the FX levers.