CANADIAN TV SHOW ROCKS THE HOUSE WITH CORTEX
April 6th, 2007

'Ed's Night Party's Musical Director now powered by HDC-1000 

CANADIAN TV SHOW ROCKS THE HOUSE WITH CORTEX 

 

April 5, 2007, Edison, NJ: Eagle-eyed fans tuning into the new season of irreverent weekly Canadian late night television comedy show Ed and Red's Night Party might notice something different about Musical Director James "Professor" Stamos' DJ set-up.  James is the latest DJ to make the transition from CD's and fragile laptop computers to the latest in digital DJ technology, a Cortex HDC-1000! 

 

Hosted by hand puppet Ed The Sock, Canada's most-loved and most successful pop culture hero, James rocks the house in between rounds of Ed's edgy humour and stinging political commentary, making the show's Party Girl Dancers shake their booties each and every week. 

                

 

Musical Director - don't call him a DJ - for Ed and Red's Night Party for the last seven seasons, Toronto-born Stamos spent his twenties in New York City honing his skills as a bassist for a number of bands including a group managed by a supermodel Beverly Peele which included male model Tyson Beckford. While still in New York, James would have friends send him tapes of Ed the Sock's early shows and upon returning to Toronto, it was almost fate that James became involved with the show. 

 

"Being the musical director on ED the Sock's late-night show Ed and Red's Night Party for seven years now, my musical setup has morphed and expanded with mini-discs, CD players, and Palm Pilots," explains James.  "The HDC-1000 Dual Digital Music Controller really helped streamline my entire setup and I am lovin' it!" 

 

"We shoot as many as 8 shows over a 3 day period (3 times a year for each season) and I need all my ED Dancer music, show stingers and bumpers organized and ready to go," James elaborates. "The HDC-1000 lets me store everything (just like a PC folder format labelled by episode number!) all on a

USB Pen Drive

.  Being this organized almost guarantees a mistake-free show, because if I mess up, ED the SOCK WILL LET ME KNOW!!!"  
 

Shown on CITY-TV (and in the US on cable channel G4), the long-running Ed's Night Party has steadily ascended from cable-access show to nighttime powerhouse, holding the top ratings spot in Canada opposite The Tonight Show with Leno and The Late Show with David Letterman for 4 years running. 

 

For more information on James "Professor" Stamos, Ed The Sock, and Ed and Red's Night Party, click to: http://www.edthesock.com/  

 

A part of GCI Technologies, Cortex is a digital audio controller company that specializes in bringing advanced technology to the DJ and professional audio community. Since debuting at the 2006 Winter NAMM tradeshow, Cortex has received rave reviews with its patent-pending intelligent, hard-drive based technology. For further information, click to www.cortex-pro.com.  For pricing information, contact GCI Technologies at (732) 346-0061 

 

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