There are bad ideas, there are genuinely terrible ideas, and then there are ideas so magnificently misguided that they transcend criticism entirely and arrive somewhere close to performance art. The DJ Mouse, launched by DJ-Tech in August 2009, sits firmly in that last category.
Cast your mind back to 2009. Serato was tightening its grip on the professional market, Native Instruments’ Traktor was winning converts by the thousand, and controller culture was just beginning its inexorable march toward the CDJ-shaped future we now inhabit. It was, in short, a moment that demanded bold thinking. DJ-Tech duly obliged. Their answer to…
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