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See, Goldstein’s last big startup Turntable.fm imploded in late 2013. “DJZ goes away as a top-down editorial property and becomes a bottom-up remix community,” Goldstein explains. Your creations could also end up on what was DJZ but is becoming a Crossfader content site. If you find a pair of songs that sound awesome and you can lock them together as a Crossfade, save it to your profile, and share in the app’s feed where other people can re-remix it, or out to Facebook and Twitter where they’ll play in-line.

If you want a more professional tool, Djay, Traktor and Pacemaker are better choices.īeyond the instrument side of the app, you can customize a DJ profile avatar for yourself. A steady hand is important unless you want to sound scatter-brained. That’s not exactly true, though. Get jostled or forget what you’re doing and you might whiplash your audience by accidentally switching from one sample to the other. “This is about taste, not technique,” says Goldstein, explaining that a good ear for what sounds right matters more than the hand-eye coordination DJs need on traditional equipment. Tire of either song and you can swap it out on the fly and Crossfader will make the transition happen smooth and on the beat. Then tilt the phone forward/down to filter out the high end and just get the deep, low frequencies like you’re dancing underwater. Then you can lean Crossfader toward you/up to kill the bass and leave the anticipation-inducing high end audible. You might accentuate the vocals as the hook revs up, then tilt over to the beat as the drop hits with a wall of bass. Keep your phone steady to hear them balanced in the mix, or tilt left or right to fade from one across to the other in real time. Pick one on each side of the screen and they both play at the same time.Ĭrossfader syncs the two songs’ timing, tempo, and key so they always sound good together. To make a mix, you flick through regularly updated “packs” of the best snippets of songs, like the drums and hook of a Skrillex jam or the lyrics of one by Dr. Like it’s alive in your hands rather than an app you’re interfacing with. Thanks to its use of the iPhone’s accelerometers, that’s how Crossfader feels.