Friday Top Five:: 08.05.22
Each week in our ‘Friday Top Five’ segment, we feature five things we thought were interesting, notable, or culturally significant. This week we are showcasing stories about Tip Top Cocktails and how they are changing the cocktail on-the-go game. Traktor DJ turns 20, Jeff Bridges drops what might be the best show of the year, Gary Vee and Empathy Wines release a 2021 Meerkat Muscat, and how to manage metadata across DJ platforms.
Story-1:: Tip Top Cocktails Summer Packs
Story-2:: Traktor DJ Software + Gear Turns 20
Story-3:: The Old Man with Jeff Bridges
Story-4:: From Napa Valley to the Moon with Empathy Wines X VeeFriends 2021 Meerkat Muscat
Limited EditionStory-5:: Beatsource Tech Presents Meta Data Management for DJ Software
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Story-1:: Tip Top Cocktails Arrived
Overview: We believe good stuff should be accessible. In our previous lives, we were music industry veterans behind some of the largest festivals in the country. Along the way, we saw the demand for quality cocktails growing, but the careful preparation required to make one-made service in high-volume environments pretty difficult. We fantasized about creating a world-class cocktail in an easy-to-serve vessel, thinking maybe we could help solve a problem for venues, events, restaurants, bars, airplanes, and regular folks at home on the couch. Eventually, we stopped fantasizing and started actually doing it.
Tip Top offers prepared classic cocktails that hit on all the notes of traditional recipes, allowing modern drinkers a balanced beverage whenever and wherever.
Enlisting the help of our favorite bartender and James Beard finalist, Miles Macquarrie of Kimball House, we developed classic cocktail recipes and packaged them up to drink at any time and, just about, any place. Tip Top Proper Cocktails are always within reach, especially if a trusted bartender or fully-stocked bar are not.
Pair these quintessential crowd pleasers with anything from sprinklers to barbecues, pools to parks. This limited edition 8-pack will help you keep things cool when the weather’s warm.
2 x Margarita: Tequila, Lime, Orange Liqueur (26% ABV)
2 x Bee’s Knees: Gin, Lemon, Honey (26% ABV)
2 x Negroni: Dry Gin, Red Bitters, Sweet Vermouth (26% ABV)
2 x Daiquiri: Rum, Lime, Sugar (24% ABV)
Don’t forget to check out the episode of Sound Off Podcast with the Tip Top Cocktail Founders - Linked Here.
Links: Instagram | Summer Pack | Website | Merch
Story-2 :: Traktor DJ Software + Gear
Overview: Whether you’re on the road, in the club, at home, or in the studio, Native Instruments continues to push the envelope for DJs everywhere. By combining our flagship TRAKTOR software with a range of innovative DJing hardware designed to provide hands-on control of your decks and effects, TRAKTOR delivers seamless integration, one-touch looping, and sample and mixer manipulation for creative DJ sets in any genre
Here are the Four Products that I think anyone can check out and get into DJing really fast. Now, some of these are free, others cost a few dollars, and some are well expensive. But if you are like me, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and you can head to Guitar Center and check out their used Native Instrument Gear.
- TRAKTOR PRO 3: Laptop Software
-TRAKTOR KONTROL S3 - Essential 4-Channel DJ Controller
-TRAKTOR DJ 2 - Free dj app for desktop and ipad
-TRAKTOR KONTROL X1 ULTRAVIOLET
My next purchase is the Control Vinyl for Traktor which works with any sound card. I just ordered the blue vinyl and hope it comes this weekend so I can have a bit of fun with it and my new K2 Controller.
Links: Website
Story-3:: The old Man
Overview: A former CIA officer who's living off the grid finds himself on the run from people who want to kill him.
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Thomas Perry, The Old Man stars Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow and Amy Brenneman. The Old Man centers on Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges) who absconded from the CIA decades ago and has been living off the grid since. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past.
With Dan Chase flushed out of hiding, the FBI’s Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Harold Harper (John Lithgow) is called on to hunt him down because of his complicated past with the rogue fugitive. Working alongside Harper is his protégé Angela Adams (Alia Shawkat) and CIA Special Agent Raymond Waters (E.J. Bonilla). When Chase proves to be more difficult to apprehend than the authorities expected, Julian Carson (Gbenga Akinnagbe), a highly trained special ops contractor, is sent to pursue him as well. While on the run, Chase rents a room from Zoe McDonald (Amy Brenneman) who draws on reserves she never knew she had in order to survive the day when she learns the truth about her new tenant. Bill Heck, Leem Lubany and Pej Vahdat also star in the drama series.
Teleplay and created for television by Jonathan E. Steinberg & Robert Levine, The Old Man is executive produced by Warren Littlefield, Steinberg, Dan Shotz, Levine, Jeff Bridges, David Schiff and Jon Watts who also directs the first two episodes. The series is produced by 20th Television in association with The Littlefield Company.
Links: Website
Story-4:: Empathy Wines x VeeFriends 2021 Meerkat Muscat
Overview: "VeeFriends, like Empathy Wines, is a culmination of my life. If social media was around when I was younger, I would definitely have bet my lemonade money on predicting both of these projects coming to life in the future. Now in my forties, it’s fun for me that I’ve fulfilled two very clear destinies: building a wine brand from the ground up and creating an extraordinary community around creativity and intellectual property." - Gary
WHAT IS VEEFRIENDS?
VeeFriends is an NFT company based on 268 characters that symbolize characteristics and traits that creator Gary Vaynerchuk believes drive happiness and business success. All VeeFriends characters were created with alliteration around a key quality and an associated animal or figure. Through collaborations and storytelling, it is VeeFriends and Gary's ambitions to empower our community and the world at large to understand, respect, and ultimately utilize VeeFriends traits and what valuable lessons they may provide in their personal and professional lives.
Story-5:: Beatsource Tech: Use Your Serato Library On CDJs – DJ Conversion Utility Review
Overview: A question often asked by some Serato DJ Pro users is how they can get their crates, cues and loops into Rekordbox. Not because they want to switch, but so they can do a gig or two playing just off USB drives on CDJs. On the new episode of Beatsource Tech, we look at Mojaxx‘s favorite tool for doing that job (and a lot more besides): DJ Conversion Utility.
Pay to own, not a subscription. DJCU is on the market for almost 6 years now. All updates have been free and so is our knowledgeable support. We are committed to continuing this policy in the future.
https://www.ATGR.nl is now an interactive advisory tool. Simply select your current DJ software and where you want to convert into and the site will show you all the relevant info including the apps you need and the tutorial videos.
This is just a small selection of all the tutorial videos:
Convert from Traktor to Rekordbox 6 & other DJ software DJCU 5.0 [macOS]
Convert from Serato to Rekordbox 6 & other DJ software DJCU 5.0 [macOS]
Convert from Virtual DJ to Rekordbox 6 & other DJ software DJCU 5.0 [macOS]
Conversion from djay (iOS or MacOS) to Rekordbox.XML, DJCU 4.75 [macOS]
From Rekordbox.xml to Serato, Traktor, Virtual DJ, djay Pro 2, iTunes DJCU 4.5 [macOS]
Convert a CDJ USB into one that also works with Traktor, Serato, djay Pro AI, Virtual DJ and Denon Prime (Denon Prime compatibility requires the Denon Conversion Utility, to be purchased separately)
Ask Me Anything collection conversion and management for DJs : One Drive to Rule them All 2020
What does DJCU convert from and to?
Cues, loops, beat grid, folder/playlist structure (for Traktor & Rekordbox) or crate structure (for Serato) for the following platforms:
Traktor To Rekordbox.xml
Serato To Rekordbox.xml
Virtual DJ to Rekordbox.xml
Algoriddim djay to Rekordbox.xml
Rekordbox.xml To djay (see below for supported versions)
Rekordbox.xml to iTunes (no cue, loops and other DJ specific tags but folder/playlist/crate structure with their containing tracks)
From Rekordbox XML to Serato
From Rekordbox.xml to Traktor
From Rekordbox.xml to Virtual DJ
It is possible to make combinations, e.g. when you want to convert from Serato to Traktor.
Convert from your current DJ software to Rekordbox.xml, you don't need Rekordbox at all, just the XML produced by DJCU.
Convert the Rekordbox.xml created in the previous step to the target DJ software.
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