As recognisable to the DJing community as Fender guitars are to rock and Cristal was to hip hop, Pioneer’s celebrated line of decks, the Pioneer CDJs, are pretty much everywhere in modern club culture. As such, it’s a damn big deal when the tech-wizards behind the Pioneer Pro DJ brand come out with a new model that will surely take over many a DJ booth. That’s just what happened overnight, as Pioneer took its new babies – the CDJ-2000 as well as the new CDJ-900 – out to the public, and they look great. How great? Grab an up-close look at the goodies with ITM’s new gallery of the CDJ-2000 in the link below!

> Pioneer CDJ-2000 Showcase Gallery

The most immediate thing one will notice about the brand new ‘2000s is the presence of its luminous 6.1 inch LCD screen, which will display song titles, wave forms and art and much more. There’s also the inclusion some brand new USB connectivity, allowing DJs to ditch the record bag for a simple external hard drive.

Yep, it’s very much a digital beast, reflecting the uptake of digital-files over traditional media. The new system also supporting playback of MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF file types. Nice, right? It doesn’t stop there, just check out the full run-down of exclusive features below.

• Multi Format Playback – The CDJ-2000 enables playback of MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF audio files on CD,DVD-ROM, SD card and USB memory devices.
• Pro DJ Link – New Pioneer Pro DJ Link that enables up to four CDJ-2000/900s to beconnected and share a single music source.
• 6.1” Full Color LCD panel and Graphic User Interface – For displaying song titles, jacket art as well as detailed track information and wave form display of each song so DJs can find informatio nneeded to select a song at a glance.
• Needle Search – Helps DJs instantaneously get to a specific part of a song with a simple touch of the Needle Search pad.
• MIDI – Users can assign various buttons of the CDJ-2000 to trigger other devices, such as DJ effecters and software with MIDI mapping capability.

• Free Rekordbox Music Management Software Included – Both the CDJ-2000 and CDJ-900 turntables include rekordbox, Pioneer’s proprietary music management software that organizes and catalogs a DJ’s entire music library. When music files are imported to rekordbox, the software analyzes each file and prepares them for use specifically with thenew CDJ turntables.

  The new system looks like it’ll be a guaranteed success, and we’re clearly not the only ones thinking that, with heavy-hitting DJs like Laidback Luke, James Zabiela, Roger Sanchez and Armin van Buuren already showing the CDJ-2000 some serious love.

  Check out a video overview of the new CDJ-2000 in the clip below for another close look at the what’s already being referred to as ‘the new industry standard’ for DJing.

  Pioneer’s new CDJ models are expected to roll out before the end of the year, so lift your jaw off the floor and get pre-orderin’!