A few photos from the 2010 NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA. Namba Gear was located in the technology section of NAMM next to our good friends at Bias software and Apogee. Here is our booth with Akai APC40 resting in the open Studio Backpack. Notice the “sneak peak” of the new Midnight Blue Limited Edition Backpacks on the top of the shelf, and our buddy Fred the Mannequin displaying a Mayan Brown Remix Backpack. 

Namba Gear owner Woody Moran (l) with Shaka Laptop Messenger Bag owner  Jamez Bernardi (r) helping out at the Namba Gear booth. Nice t-shirt Jamez.

We noticed right away that Jamez has a “special talent” and was really good at making friends and showing off the Samba Personal Stash Bag. Pictured writer/reporter Amy Kelly (l) and Jamez (r). 

Great friend, Grammy Award winning producer, and Namba Gear endorser Jason Miles (l) with Woody (r). Jason uses the Big Namba Studio Backpack, Kava Laptop Messenger and just purchased a Samba Personal Stash Bag. 

Namba Gear co-sponsored a Fiesta Latina concert along with other companies represented in Latin America by Studio Sound International (SSI). From left to right Marco Renteria (bass), Norman Merten (guitar), Waldo Madera (drums) and SSI owner Chris “Fingers” Adams on keys.

At the party we ran into our Italian distributor Moreno from Soundwave Distribution (l) and award winning German composer and Namba Gear endorser Volker Barber (r). 

By the time the fantastic Marco Mendoza Trio arrived on stage for a smokin’ set, things were starting to get a little fuzzy. At the time, we actually thought that this was a really good photo of the band taken from the house console. Sorry, this is the best photo we have of the band, but the music was an incredible treat.

It was not an unusual sight to find folks trying on the bags to see how they fit. Pictured are proud new Namba Gear owners Rebecca and Rene.

Several of the people who purchased bags while at the show promised to send us photos of their travels with Namba Gear. We’re looking forward to posting their photo adventures here, and/or on Facebook and MySpace. If you aren’t already our friend on these social networks, please friend us.

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Our first blog of the new year and it’s a nice event announcement. The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) is having their yearly exhibition on January 14th - 17th at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. Namba Gear will have a booth on the show floor in the technology area of Hall A, located between Bias software and Apogee Electronics at booth #6424(B).

The NAMM show is for the trade only and is not open to the public. However, if you are going to be attending NAMM and already own a Namba Gear bag, please stop by, say hi and let us get a photo with you. See our 2009 NAMM Show wrapup by clicking here.

If you are a reseller, distributor or independent rep, please give us a moment to show you why Namba Gear is in a league apart from other laptop gear transportation solutions and why we proudly proclaim our products to be “high performance”. If you would like to set an appointment, write to: woody@nambagear.com.

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OK, we suspect that it’s a little childish, but the Namba Gear crew was actually giggling with excitement when our 1st Official Namba Gear T-Shirts arrived. The boxes of navy blue t-shirts were opened in our warehouse and a big cheer went up as the shirts were displayed for the 1st time. The consensus seems to be; these are very cool shirts and a great addition to anyone’s wardrobe. To find out more about our t-shirts click here.

Here’s the Holiday Special

We are going to get just a little jump on the holiday spirit. Since we can hardly wait to start seeing our shirts being worn… on the streets, in the studios, in the clubs, (Heck, we would be happy to see one on someone weeding their garden). But we digress, since we can hardly wait to see our shirts being worn, we are going to include a FREE Namba Gear t-shirt ($20.00 value) with every webshop laptop bag order from now until January 1st, 2010.

Order either the Big Namba or Lil Namba laptop backpack, or Kava or Shaka laptop messenger bags off our online webshop (sorry, the Samba Personal Stash Bag doesn’t qualify) and we’ll put a free men’s large t-shirt in the box. You don’t even need to order the shirt, we’ll just put it in the box. The shirts are also available in men’s medium or men’s xl sizes, so if you need a different size just tell us in the comments section of the order form.

We have limited quantities, so this offer is available only from our online webshop, while supplies last. Our webshop ships U.S. orders only.

Happy Holidays from your friends at Namba Gear!

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Introduced in the Spring of 2009 in Namba Gear’s  recognizable Mayan Brown exterior with blue interior, the Lil Namba Remix Backpack is now available in Namba Gear’s Olive Green and Charcoal Grey colors. Both bags follow Namba Gear’s bright interior color scheme with a bronze interior for the Olive Green bag and red interior for the Charcoal Grey bag, so that a musician or Dj can easily find their gear even in a dimly lit backstage area.

The Lil Namba Remix Backpack was created by our design crew to provide the best carrying solution for a computer Dj using Rane/Serat0 or Vestax VCI300. The Remix Backpack functions equally well  for transport of a laptop mobile studio using a smaller footprint keyboard controller such as the M-Audio Oxygen 8, and using up to a 15″ laptop computer, including the larger screened 15.4″ MacBook Pro.

The Lil Namba Remix Backpack is another in our line of high performance bags. We gave them the high performance designation because of the attention to construction detail and the extreme high grade weather-resistant 1680D poly nylon materials used.

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Namba Gear now has a FaceBook page, so if you are on FaceBook please stop by and become a fan. There is already a wonderful collection of musicians, djs, engineers and producers as our fans.

In addition to special content, we will also run the occasional promotion to just our fans on FaceBook, so another nice reason to hook up with us. Be sure and leave us a comment.

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The Akai APC40 dedicated controller for the Ableton Live software fits perfectly in the Big Namba Studio Backpack. 

The first time I heard about Ableton Live was the Frankfurt Musik Messe trade show of 2002, when I was VP Sales & Mrktg for M-Audio. My old friend, Craig Anderton, grabbed me and said, “you’ve got to come see this new software.” He pulled me over to this small green booth where I got my first “hit” of Live. I was impressed. Within a few months after the show, we had struck a deal for Western Hemisphere and UK distribution and introduced Live. All of that is simply to say, I’ve been an Ableton Live fan for many years.

I was recently speaking with a reviewer for Future Music, and he said, “The best thing about the Akai APC40 is that it encourages you to use Live in the way it was intended… On Stage.” Why was he talking to me? He needed to get a case for his new APC40 and he had heard that Namba Gear had the solution with the Big Namba Studio Backpack.

It seems that the word is out on the forums, chatrooms and twitter. The Big Namba Studio Backpack has room for up to a 17″ laptop, headphones, audio device, cables, mics and your Akai APC40 with room to spare.

Congratulations to Akai & Ableton for making a wonderful product. A big Hooray for all of the Ableton users that we have such a great new tool to use with our music. And if you need to take it to a gig, don’t forget about Namba Gear.

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Sometimes the best ideas sneak up on you. An old friend and recording artist approached me at the January NAMM Show in Anaheim. He was wearing the coolest small bag slung across his chest and I immediately had to find out about it. He told me that he had picked up this “stash” bag in a dj shop in New York, but had subsequently been unable to find another like it because he wanted to get a couple more to give them as gifts to musician friends. Then he started to tell me about all the different ways that he used the bag…

In a promotional setting, he could fit about 5 or 6 demo CD’s inside. For recording sessions, going back and forth to the studio, he used it to carry his iLok, memory stick & CD-R’s.  He used it as his remote recording bag to hold his handheld digital recorder and in-ear monitors to do field recording or capturing samples. And of course as an everyday bag to carry the stuff that you would typically spread into a four or five pockets in your clothing.

I got him to dump his bag out so that I could see what he had in it and was amazed at how much this little bag could carry: a wallet, business cards, note pad, couple of pens, camera, memory stick, cell phone, keys, chewing gum & breath mints; and there was still room in the bag. Wow, this little bag was amazing. “You know,” my friend said, “Namba Gear should make a little stash bag like this. I bet there are a lot of guys that would really dig this.” So that’s how we got the initial idea for the Samba Personal Stash Bag.

Measuring 7″ x 7″ x 3.5″, the exta long strap allows the Samba Personal Stash Bag to be worn across the chest or off the shoulder. Features include a metal clasp,  two inside zippered poskets and one outside Velcro pocket, and can be used to carry CD’s, memory stick, iLok, wallet, keys, handheld digital recorder, camera, iPod, in-ear monitors, phone, pen, notepad, business cards and hundreds of other small items and personal essentials that a musician or dj needs to carry with them.

The Samba stash bag is made of the same high performance, weather resistant, 1680D/poly nylon materials and construction as the rest of the Namba Gear product line. The bag is available in Mayan Brown, Olive Green and Charcoal Grey. And yes, we got the official seal of approval on the Samba Personal Stash Bag from my friend.

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Famed drummer Mauricio Claveria of La Ley and Los Concorde recently got a Big Namba Studio Backpack and noticed that we didn’t have much information about our products in Spanish. So our new amigo Mauricio volunteered to give us a video in espanol to help us get our point across.

For those that do not speak Spanish, Mauricio arrives at the studio in Mexico City on his motorcycle with his aerodynamic Big Namba, and proceeds to explain all of the equipment he carries in his Namba Gear backpack. (Watch for the part where he puts his headphones in the front pocket and the bag just swallows them.)

Muchos gracias, Mauricio!

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“Make a backpack for Rane/Serato.” “Hey, why don’t you guys make a backpack for Rane/Serato users?” Okay, okay… we heard you. So we made a backpack for all of you Rane/Serato guys called the Lil Namba Remix Backpack. Of course in doing so, we’ve made a laptop backpack that is just ideal for a number of uses.

Just like its big brother, the Big Namba Studio Backpack, the Lil Namba uses weather-resistant, high performance 1680D poly/nylon material and over-sewn stress point construction techniques to deliver a superior product. When you examine the semi-rigid form using high-density internal cushioning for your precious cargo, you know that you have found the right stuff. Again, our designers have delivered a musician and dj friendly transportation solution built on the keywords of security and protection.

What’s more, the Lil Namba Remix Backpack is specifically tailored for the computer dj using products such as Rane/Serato or the Vestax VCI300 controller, as well as the mobile studio owner using a small footprint 2-octave MIDI keyboard controller, such as the M-Audio Oxygen 8 or the Behringer UMA25s, or alternative controllers such as Native Instrument’s new Maschine are a perfect fit.

The Lil Namba Remix Backpack features a security design that can hold up to a 15″ laptop computer. the bag is also equipped with cable-ties as part of an integrated cable management system and contains a secret stash pocket.

Other features of the Lil Namba Remix Backpack include: lockable zippers, holds 12″ vinyls and audio devices, convenient carry handles, extra thick padding, extra wide shoulder straps with integrated phone pocket.

Upon online product registration, Namba Gear offers a free one year membership to Broadjam’s online musician community, a free one month membership to HowAudio video tutorials, along with free software downloads and other valuable offers.

The Lil Namba Remix Backpack is available in a Mayan Brown exterior with a high-contrast blue interior, and is shipping May 1, 2009.  Namba Gear products are available via select retail merchants as well as the Namba Gear online webshop.

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