Weekly Rundown:: Week of January 29th, 2024

Weekly Rundown
Written By Reed Dailey
 

Are you ready to blend the latest in business, technology, and local culture into one engaging listening experience? Welcome to the Daily Blend Show with Reed Dailey, your go-to podcast for everything noteworthy and innovative.

This week, we take you through a journey of sound and style. He discusses the transition of Dailey Blend's music projects to feature more original mixes, giving you a taste of what's to come in 2024. If you're a music enthusiast, this is your cue to indulge in the DJ sets from the past year and discover new tunes that could become the soundtrack of your life.

NAMM was last week, and we give you the scoop on the latest DJ equipment hitting the market. From Alpha Theta's Omnis Duo to Headliner's new rotary mixer, he shares his insights on the tools shaping the future of DJing. Whether you're a professional DJ or an aspiring one, these segments will have you yearning to get your hands on the latest gear.

In addition to the tech talk, we share takeaways from CES, the mecca of consumer electronics. He highlights the standout innovations and teases the potential of AI and holographic technologies in our homes. You will want to take advantage of a glimpse into the future.

Hometown feature: we are spotlighting Tropical Bros, a clothing brand that embodies its hometown's vibrant and carefree spirit. It's a reminder that innovation isn't just about gadgets; it's also about the experiences and lifestyles they inspire.

And for those participating in dry January or simply looking for a refreshing, non-alcoholic option, Reed has you covered. He shares his favorite non-alcoholic drinks, proving you can still enjoy a sophisticated beverage without the buzz.

The Dailey Blend Show is more than a podcast; it's a community where business, technology, and local culture converge. It's where you can stay ahead of the curve while celebrating the spirit of your city. So, why take a break from the ordinary and tune into the extraordinary? Subscribe to the Dailey Blend Show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube, and join Reed on this exciting journey.

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Across Dailey Blend

  • My Favorite Mixes of 2023. Not necessarily released in 2023, but these were the mixes I listened to most last year. To all the DJ's out there who made them, thanks! You helped me get through busy work, house tasks, deep thinking work, and served as a inspiration to me for my own mixes. - Linked Here, embedded below.

Across Business and Tech

  • AlphaTheta FKA PioneerDJ

    • AlphaTheta Corporation, the designer and developer of products under the name Pioneer DJ, is pleased to announce new products under the brand AlphaTheta. Now, with products launching as AlphaTheta, we’ve created a brand that will propel us into the future, while also maintaining the quality and innovation that you’ve come to expect from us.

      The name AlphaTheta directly refers to the brain wave frequencies achieved in optimal performance. Music often guides us into these extremely powerful states of mind. Our aim is to use our innovative technologies in sound and music creation to enable and enrich these peak moments.

  • Portable DJ Gear by AlphaTheta

    • Out of the Blue: Introducing the OMNIS-DUO portable all-in-one DJ system. The perfect setup for throwing DJ parties anytime, anywhere, features battery power and multiple audio input and output options including BluetoothⓇ/MD connectivity.

  • Headliner’s 4-channel, $600 rotary mixer

    • Introducing the Headliner R4, a 4-channel analog rotary mixer designed to elevate your DJ experience. Continuing the tradition of precision, warmth, and affordability, the R4 is packed with enhanced features and top-notch components, including genuine ALPS potentiometers, ensuring an unparalleled mixing experience.

      • 4 Channel analog rotary DJ mixer with built-in Filter.

      • Analog High Pass / Low Pass filter with frequency and resonance controls to shape your signature sound.

      • Four stereo channels featuring gain control with peak LED, 3-band isolator EQs, headphone cue selector, generous channel volume knob, and a filter activation switch, granting you precise control over your sound

      • Four line inputs, three phono inputs, and two mic inputs connecting a wide variety of devices including turntables, media players, and microphones.

      • Independent Master and Booth outputs equipped with volume controls, balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA connectors, ensures seamless connectivity across various sound systems.

  • Dentsu at CES 

    • A 23 page report from our people on the ground, looking at six emerging themes, cutting through the hype, and offering very sensible and practical advice.  A lot of what we need to do is around empathy - understanding who your customers are, what they want, what they do, and how you can satisfy this need.  But as commerce starts to appear everywhere - shoppable TV shows for example - it is also about imagining what is now possible, such as showing up unexpectedly in media formats that will appeal.  There is also a really entertaining podcast episode.

Keep It Local - Exploring My Town, My City, My State

Tropical Bros

Sick of looking at overpriced Hawaiian shirts.  I was also bored by the same look and feel of old tradition tacky Hawaiian shirts.  That led me to go out and find a way to deliver awesome, unique, young, high quality shirts to my consumers.  So that's what I did.  We are all overwhelmed with the stress of day to day life and Tropical Bros wants you to be able to put on a new shirt, get in the tropical mind set, and go out and have a blast.

Tropical Bros, a brand founded in 2015 in Chicago, is more than just a clothing line - it is a state of mind, a lifestyle, and an experience. Their mission is to bring happiness to their customers through high-quality, comfortable, and stylish clothes. With a focus on always updating designs and fabrics, Tropical Bros aims to sell the best of the best.

Connect and Shop online - Website Linked Here | Instagram @tropical.bros

Drink With Greg & Negronis with Greg

    • Drink of the Week

      • Still on dry January and since I have tried about everyone of these alternatives spirts, I am keeping it simple this week with Ruby Red Grapefruit, packed with Citra, Amarillo, Mosaic and Azacca hops, delivering a zesty, tart flavor with a strong hint of hops, all with no calories and no sugar. Linked Here

 
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Friday’s Top Five (Now a Newsletter)

  • A Recap From Last Week

    • Each week in our ‘Friday Top Five’ segment, we feature five things we thought were interesting, notable, or culturally significant. Last week we covered Apps to boost productivity, prompts to enhance wellbeing, books to inspire, coloring books to decompress, and gear for the adventure ahead.

    • Friday Top Five Archives are Linked Here

  • Subscribe to the ‘Dailey Blend Newsletter’

Tools & Toolkits

  • The Dailey Blend ‘Life Optimization Playbook’ is a comprehensive set of guides designed to help you optimize your life and achieve your goals. One of the key features of the playbook is the Daily End of Day Checklist, which is a step-by-step guide that helps you plan and execute your day at the start of the week and helps you stay on track throughout the week. By regularly using this checklist, you can increase your productivity, focus, and overall well-being, and feel more in control of your life.

  • Access the playbook element by clicking here.

 

Connect Online

And, as always, please give me feedback on X, formerly Twitter @DaileyBlend or Instagram @DaileyBlend. What do you want more or less of? Other suggestions? Which features were your favorite? Please let me know, and don’t forget to put #FridayTop5 at the end so I can find it. Enjoy the week, and catch you next week with the Dailey Blend Show weekly Rundown.

Transcription - Dailey Blend Show Updates Website, Launches Video

Host Reed Dailey (IG & X - @ReedDailey): This is the weekly rundown segment of the Daily Blend Show

Everyone, welcome m back to the Dailey Blend show with me, Reed Dailey. If you are new around here, this is the weekly rundown where I feature things that I thought were notable and interesting across business and technology. I highlight things that are going on in and around the Dailey Blend. Special projects that I'm involved with, collaborations, and also highlighting things going on in my hometown. Basically anything that I want to highlight that I like going on locally, kind of in my city and in my state. if you have never tuned into this show before, then do me one big favor, and that is subscribe on your favorite podcast platform. That is Spotify, Apple Podcast. Or you can listen subscribe to us over on YouTube. And if you are a social person, which I am, check us out at Dailey Blend on Instagram and X. I promise you, you will enjoy the content on all of those amazing platforms. All right, so let's jump into the show with all of that out of the way. from, cross Dailey Blend, we're continuing to, put out music projects, but, doing a little less featuring of other people and a little more featuring of myself and projects and sort of original mixes done on behalf of Dailey Blend, in 2024. With that said, this will be the last week that we kind of really showcase others for a while. so we've got, the dj sets from 2023 that I was hammering into. And I've also kind of put in the show notes, some of the throwback Thursdays from all of last year, as well as all of our music Monday features. So if you're looking for new music to get inspired and listened to for work or the gym, head over to DaileyBlend.com, go to our navigation window, and you'll be able to go to the show and click on this episode from, the week of January 29, and you'll be able to go check out all that great music. Trust me, it is a lot of it.

Alpha Theta, parent company of pioneer DJ, has released new products

and let's move into kind of the news that was quick on Dailey Blend. Alpha, theta, which is the parent company of pioneer DJ, has released new products for Nam. So Namm is North America music merchants. I believe I've got that right. And Alpha Theta has owned Pioneer DJ for a number of years and they've managed to maintain the Pioneer DJ branding. However, they seem to be pivoting from that and unclear if that's going to be for all products, for consumer, kind of light consumer products. My guess is the Pioneer DJ brand will be retired overall and they're going to go to the alpha Theta, branding. Now you can go to Pioneer DJ and go check out all the old products. You can also go to Alphaseta.com, which of course we've linked, and you can check out two new products that have come out. The first one is the Omnis Duo, which is a portable all in one DJ system. It's perfect for throwing parties anytime, anywhere. It features a five hour battery pack and with an adapter, there is a low latency, Bluetooth converter or connector, I suppose, to new speakers that they've released. And so when I look at this device, it is freaking awesome. I mean, yes, there is the denon prime series that looks and feels a lot like this, but this is Pioneer. They've got record box working. There's going to be a serato lite coming out soon. And for many people, Pioneer and record box, or serato down the road has been the premier or prominent software music management platform. This device has the newer design language that we saw, alpha Theta, aka Pioneer release with the omnis, what is it? Quattro. They're basically their big, very big, like $3,000 controller. This thing is perfect for wedding djs. This is perfect for people who want to go DJ at the park, in the woods, throw a party. The only downside is it's like one, four, or $1,500, which feels extremely expensive for what it is. So if they were to, have priced this at the sub $1,000 mark, let's say six to $800, I think you would have gotten a lot more people excited about this that are sort of outside the community of the DJ world. So, sure, this is going to hit every DJ blog, website, trade magazine. But if you had priced it at, 600, $800, I think probably like 7700. 800, you would have gotten in complex, you would have gotten in GQ, you would have gotten in insert every magazine that is targeted towards, I don't know, 16 to 35 year olds. So that's my only gripe on this. Everything else I'm really excited about, I want to play with it. A lot of the, controls are happening in the software on the touch screen, which is an interesting change of pace. So there's less buttons. But I did watch a few videos and they've got obviously the high, medium lows, volume controls, and they've got some stuff for looping and effects. So there's enough there to keep you happy with the knobs and keep it simple.

Headliners coming out with four channel rotary mixer for $600

So if we move from, the cutting edge of technology, with the alpha Theta's omnis duo, we're going to talk about headliners four channel, brand new rotary mixer. And so not that m my comment wasn't meant to slight or anything, just yang and yang. So headliner came out with a two channel r two last year and this is their r four. And so this is a rotary style mixer which means big knobs instead of faders. And it's got analog high pass, low pass filters, four channels gain controls and you're able to do three inputs, two mics. And for those who are loving vinyl or just want that sort of like rotary long mix feel, this device for $600 looks pretty special. I'm not going to comment on sound quality. I'll let Mojax from DJ city kind of comment on that, or Beatport tech however you want to call this company. But from a look and feel of this, I desperately want to get one of these and hook it up to my technic one, two hundreds and play some vinyl sets. Have a little fun with it. So when this comes out I'm going to be putting in an order into guitar center and I will have basically an analog and digital setup. So I'll have my DJ Rx three from Pioneer which is basically thumb drive and ready to rock. And then I'm going to have this thing hooked up to my turntables and just play some vinyl. So I see a lot of Sunday sessions all vinyl and just exporting out to my little pocket recorder. So kudos to headliners for putting out what looks like a great product.

Densu put out 23 page report on consumer electronics trends at CES

All right, moving from DJ gear, let's talk about ces. so Ces is the consumer electronics show that happens every year in Vegas. I think there was something absurd like 4000 booths, with all these sort of gadgets and accessories. cars were a little bit of the talk of the town. AI was a huge bit. But this company that I subscribed to their email blast or one of their employees email blast, densu put out a 23 page report from their people on the ground and it really was interesting to see and read the trends and I don't want to give too much away but in the piece they talk about the six emerging themes. if they cut through all the hype and kind of give practical advice. So highly recommend you going having a read of their. I don't want to call it dissertation, let's call it key takeaways from CES and let me know what you thought if you were at CES and liked the show. Let me know kind of what you're most excited about. From all the YouTube videos that have launched, I know the one thing that really struck out to me, I think it was samsung or LG, had a tv where it was not really made for a tv. It was like a hologram, and it was more like a picture frame, or like a fireplace kind of thing. And it'll be interesting to see how that technology applies to houses and house designs down the road. And if people start to incorporate the sort of holograms and different art into the design of their house, their entryways, et cetera.

One of the brands I wanted to highlight in 2024 is Tropical Bros

All right, so I mentioned when I kicked off the show that I wanted to do more in 2024 about keep it local, and it's all about exploring my town, my city, and my state. And so one of the brands I wanted to highlight, is a company called Tropical Bros. And so a friend of mine, in Lake forest, was kind enough to make the introduction to the founder of Tropical Bros. And I've gotten to know him, over the last six months. But, in summary, if I were to read kind of the taglines here, tropical, bros was founded in 2015. so we're coming up on ten years to, be more than just a clothing line. It's a state of mind, a lifestyle, and an experience. Their mission is to bring happiness to their customers through high quality, comfortable, and stylish clothes. With a focus on always updating designs and fabrics, tropical Bros aims to sell the best of the best. So, if you want to know, this is, like, bright, bold prints on golf shirts that have a ton of stretch, in them. I don't want to call it spandex, but very stretchy hawaiian shirts that match the polo shirts. The hawaiian shorts or shirts have hawaiian shorts that match, it's like these loud, great patterns, and they're just fantastic. And so, Joe is the founder there. Like I said, he's a lake forest guy, and, kudos to him for having this brand almost be out for ten years. I'm excited to start wearing some of their stuff come golf season 2024 and pool season 2024. If you've never checked out tropical bros, I've got their website linked as well as their instagram. You can find them at Tropical Bros on Instagram. And, if you end up buying anything, just, hashtag Daileyblend and let Joe and team know where you learned about it.

Greg is continuing down his dry January with some nonalcoholic drinks

All right. In terms of drink with Greg and Negroni with Greg, not a lot's going on mostly because I think I mentioned last show that both Greg and I were really sick over, the holiday break and just haven't had a chance to reconnect. But, I'm continuing down my dry January and it's boring, but it's not that hard, to be frank. I've got all these non alcoholic beers, which I find is funny because I don't drink a lot of beer, but the non alcoholic beers taste great and I feel good and it's just something different than water. But I was going to put in kind of a cocktail of the week, but instead I wanted to put in one of these ruby, red grapefruit, nonalcoholic drinks that I've been just loving. Highly recommend checking them out. I've linked to them. you can go, buy them, read about them. It's not like an affiliate link or anything like that, but, go check them out. And I am, I don't know, only four or five days away from my first negroni of 2024.

We continue to highlight the life optimization playbook

in terms of, the Friday top five, we've moved over to the newsletter. Don't forget to subscribe to that and you get all the goodness to your inbox. And then we are continuing to highlight the life optimization playbook. It's a comprehensive set of, guides designed to help you optimize your life and achieve your goals. The one that we've put out right now is the, Dailey end of day checklist. I've been using this for the last three weeks. It's really helped me stay on track without being overly, robust to set up and manage. So go check it out and let me know what you think, what changes or updates you want to make in terms of the life optimization playbook. The idea here is that we're going to put out different chapters about once a month and then get feedback from friends, refine them, and then sort of at the end of the year, ah, when it feels appropriate, kind of publish the whole playbook, in a unified sort of branding look and feel. But, that does it for, the show. as I mentioned, don't forget to like follow us on x and Instagram at Dailey Blend, you can find us on Spotify and Apple, podcast. Check us out on YouTube. You'll start to see more YouTube shorts coming out and enjoy your week. We'll catch you on the Friday top five later this week.

 
 
 
 
 

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