As you can imagine, we are getting a lot of international traffic from all over the world on our website. A friend called our attention to the Google Translate application which will translate every page on our site into other languages.

The Google Translate control is on the right sidebar at the end of the column. Just choose your language and voila (a bit of French) the Namba Gear page is translated.

We’ve noticed that even if you don’t speak another language it can still be fun to play around with. The translations may not be 100%, but certainly get close enough to figure out what is being said.

Namba Gear wants to thank all of our friends and supporters around the world. Rock on, dudes! (We just wanted to see how it would translate “dudes”. In Icelandic it’s spjátrungur.)

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This was our first year to attend MBLV, the Mobile Beat DJ show in Las Vegas, NV. Namba Gear had a great location next to our friends at Rane/Serato and we met some very cool guys. Namba Gear was in the “loud room”.  It should have been labeled the “loud, dark, smokey room”.

Here is our display at MBLV, backdrop for many artist photos coming up. Love the carpet.

So that everyone immediately got the idea of how to use our laptop gear bags, we were showing the Vestax VCI-300 in the Lil Namba Remix Backpack and the Novation SL25 MKII MIDI controller keyboard in the Big Namba Studio Backpack.

Featured performer and Washington DC native, DJ Kool (l) showed up at our booth 1st thing to get a Remix Backpack. Shown here with DVDJ Unique (r) and his new Big Namba Studio Backpack.

DJ Zan the Man picked out a charcoal grey Big Namba Studio Backpack.

Here are the Rane/Serato guys across the aisle from us.

DJ Ryan picking up a Big Namba Studio Backpack for the trip back to N. California.

Here’s Namba Gear’s California homeboy DJ Jimmy G and his new Studio Backpack. See you guys next year!

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Superfly Jeff just posted a YouTube video showing his Akai APC40 and additional gear loaded inside his Big Namba Studio Backpack. Thanks Jeff

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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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