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FX Rentals Behind the Decks at Nokia Urban Music Festival
FX Rentals has once again played a major role in the annual Nokia Urban Music Festival with The Prince's Trust, a hugely successful two-day event held at Londonıs Earls Court in April. FX provided all equipment for the Nokia DJ Workshop, supplying a Soundcraft K3 40 channel console 15 Vestax Mixers and 30 Technics SL1210 turntables. Here, wanna-be DJs as young as eight years old were able to try out their skills on the decks, assisted by DJs including Mr Thing, DJ Skully and Ritchie Rufftone.
All the audio channels from the 15 DJ systems were fed into the Soundcraft so individual stereo channels could be solo'd at any time and fed through the main PA system. This was also provided by FX and comprised four Mackie SRM 450 self powered speakers with four HZ PB400 sub bass units. FX also provided two Mackie SRM450 speakers, a Mackie 1202VLZ mixer, a Denon CD player and a Shure SM58 mic for the Breakdance Area.
FX was hired by the Prince’s Trust to provide the equipment. "FX Rentals have been great to work with on our DJ workshops and went out of their way to find us the best equipment at a brilliant cost," says the Trust’s Joseph Howes. "They certainly helped The Prince's Trust reach more young people at the Nokia Urban Music Festival."
The DJ Workshop was once again organised by the D-Pat Turntable Academy which works with youth services across London providing DJ, MC and music production workshops to provide bespoke workshop sessions tailored to the specific needs of the groups, providing a hands-on learning experience.
"We had 15 sets of decks available for people to walk up to and have a play on, supervised by eight tutors who were on hand to offer advice about DJ skills, from basic to advanced," says D-Patıs James Fornara or DJ Dub, aka Jim'll Mix It.
"This walk-in policy meant that a huge amount of people around 400 - had the chance to benefit from one-to-one tuition with one of our DJ tutors. We also hosted showcase sets from DJ Skully and DJ Pogo - both world DMC champions - and UK DMC champion DJ Blakey, as well as a demonstration of the Scratchophone - a new portable turntable and mixer that can be played like a guitar. Once again, FX were a fantastic help in providing the equipment for the event."
5th May 2005
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