Thanks to the fact that I berate myself for this decision almost daily, I'd be lying if I told you my trip to see an exhibition about the history of Kenwood (it's at the wonderful Lightbox in Woking, the town where the mixer was first made) was an entirely happy one.
The mixer is the first product to come from the duo's new PLAYdifferently line, and they seem to be taking their brand name very literally.
The selected material for the pipe (PE granules) is first heated in the mixer machine.
It is first ground into mince and then steamed and rotated in an oven angled like a cement mixer so that the juices run off.
The GLI PMX 7000 Mixer was the first US-made mixer to incorporate a horizontal crossfader.
The performance of the first mixer is the key to the performance of a receiver.
He's a DJ whose technical mastery of the mixer is apparent from the second he hits play but there's no element of showing off, no desire to make his slot about him rather than the music.
The first real DJ mixer is designed by Alex Rosner for the Haven Club.
YouTube is second, followed by other live streaming platforms from Microsoft (Mixer), Facebook (Facebook Live) and Twitter (Periscope).
Mixer is also launching a new mobile app called Mixer Create into beta.
