We saw them at BPM, and were fortunate to get the new Reloop RP-8000Â MIDI turntables into the hands of some of the finest scratch DJs that the UK and world has to offer last weekend at the DJWORX Session Scratch Jam. And now they’re available in the shops.
To be specific, the PR says in shops today, but I suspect it’ll be more like the next week or two. I did get part way through writing my review, but sadly DJ Angelo took the units I had away to devise a new set specifically for an upcoming video to show off just what the new turntables can do. But generally I was very happy with what I found, as were the gathered scratch DJs.
The only thing I couldn’t fathom from a functionality perspective was that if these decks are aimed squarely at DVS users, why put an S-arm on? Yes I know it’s to make them as Technics-like as possible (especially with the button styling), but I wish they could have been as skip-free as possible, especially when beating the crap out of the buttons.
So I’ll wait for another to become available so that I can spend some more time honing the review. But for those in any doubt that they were ever coming out, they are and they’re good.