Gaston Luga Backpack Review BY Ellaskins

0:00 My name's Jonathan Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor

Right guys, my name's Jonathan Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. I give online lessons for DJs and stuff. Now, having been on YouTube for quite a while, as you can imagine, on the odd occasion you'll get companies saying, would you mind using this in a video? Most of the time it is of course DJ related because that's what I do. But quite often I'll get an email saying... Would you please review a left-handed screwdriver? Or would you please review this appliance that you use in the kitchen? And most of the time my answer's no because I'm just not really interested. It's not, okay, it's good to get free stuff. It's amazing, it's fantastic. But there does come a point when you think why do I want something that slices cucumbers? Anyway, I said yes to this because I do like it.

In fact, it's one of those products where you think, you know what? It's actually sort of DJ related. It is! Seriously! It can be used by a DJ. Right, it's a backpack. Now, I know, it's almost like, it is an advert. I mean, come on, I'm not gonna, you know, I mean, yeah, this is, I'm promoting this, okay? All right, so let's get the name correct. It's from a company called Gaston Luger. They are from Stockholm in Sweden. Now they contacted me and said would you be interested in showing these backpacks in your videos? Now my first thought was well it's not really DJ stuff but when I looked at the website and I looked at the product I thought that's actually quite cool. Now the first thing that is apparent about this

Is that it's oldy-worldy. It's like, you know, the old style, old school. I can imagine someone going to the races and wearing that and looking quite smart with their tuxedo holding a glass of Pimms. On the other hand, you could see school kids taking it to school with all their books in it. But what the hell has this got to do with DJing? Well, I want to show you something. Let me show you something. Right, I'm going to open it up. I'll explain and show you all the details in a bit. Right, so let's open that. And I have here the Pioneer, there it is, a little controller. This is, well, you can use WeDJ with it. It's the Pioneer DDJ-200. Now guess what? Let's pop that in the bag. So I'm going to put that in the bag like that. OK. I'm also going to pop my headphones in there. So I'm going to put my headphones in.

2:44 Of course, you would be able to put the cables in and so on

And I'm going to pop possibly one of the most important things for a DJ, which is a bottle of wine. I'm going to put that in there as well. There we go. So I'm now going to close that up. Of course, you would be able to put the cables in and so on. Let's just secure that with the magnetic straps and pop it on me back. There we go. Now I'm turning up to a gig looking like a schoolboy, but... I have got practically everything a DJ needs. Now, you're probably thinking, well, yeah, and so, yeah, come on, carry on, you're boring the life out of me. Well, there's room in there as well for a power supply and a small mini speaker. Now, as you have seen if you've watched my other videos, you've seen me use the 200 outside with a battery and external battery pack and, of course, a small...

Powered Bluetooth speaker. So you could put all that in your backpack. So for imagine, let's say you're going off on holiday somewhere, maybe you're going for a picnic, this is the crazy thing. You have got an entire DJ setup on your back. Go hiking, DJ, go scuba diving, perhaps not scuba diving. That'll be the next thing. In a few years time they'll say we've got this player you can use underwater. Maybe not now, but you can go on a boat kayaking. You can actually go kayaking with something like that so long as you don't get it wet. Right, so I'm now going to take the 200 out. I'm going to take my headphones out. The other half's cooking. That's called the cooking alarm. It always happens this time of day.

5:02 The internal compartment has two compartments

This is just real life here, you know, if you hear noises in the background it's probably because the dog's been sick or the cat's been trodden on or the children are complaining because they've got toothache or something like that. And there's my bottle of wine. Right, okay so let's have a look. Now the fastenings are magnetic so you've got a strap on there and you can undo that if you want to but it's more simpler just to do that. The internal compartment has two compartments. It's lined so it feels good. It feels sort of like oldie worldie, how they used to make things to last. Not today where they just, I don't know, they do a 3D print of it very quickly and just throw it away and go cheers and run off hoping that they don't find out where it was made because in about four days later it'll fall apart. I can't see this really falling apart.

So there is the main compartment there, two small compartments in there and you've also got a drawstring so you can pull that tight and if you want to you can pull that tight close that so if you've got that on your back you will know if someone's trying to get into the bag because they will be fondling with bits behind you. Not a good idea just give them a slap. Right and then in the front oh sorry the back Underneath there we have another little compartment, two more of those and we have a zip and you've got a little area there to put stuff. Also on the back here, I quite like this, check this out, how are you feeling today? You've got a small area there to put... Whatever. It's a shame there wasn't a zip on there actually, just an idea because if... Sorry, bang my nose. Because if there was a zip on there that would be the ideal place to put your wallet because that is on your back and it means that it's completely covered and also secure but you never know they might do something like that.

I can't really say much more about it actually. There are different colours and I will put a link in the description to their website. I do believe also they've given me a code, I'll just check, clarify that, have a look and click on that code. But there you go, alright, so it's the backpack, it is again, make sure I get the name correct, OK, because I don't want to start calling it some random name and look and think, oh dear, I've done that wrong. Here we have Gaston Luger. Gaston Luger. If you say it French, it sounds pretty good. Gaston. It's like Gaston. Gaston Luger. Come here. Gaston Luger. Stockholm, Sweden. Now I've got a nice bluey purple one there and I've got the green one. I showed these to my son.

And he loves them. He's having the blue and I'm going to have the green one. And I'm going to be using this and taking this with me to gigs, camping abroad and goodness knows what. So there you go. Gaston Luger. I like that. From Stockholm, Sweden. Thank you very much indeed. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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