(Image Caption: Turn The Beat Around: If you want to make an individual music element louder in your SurfaceDJ-created track, just drag its icon to the center of the turntable.)

SurfaceDJ features five different genres of music: ambience, electronica, house, instrumental and techno. When you first launch the app, you'll find five sample tracks which you use to learn the application. SurfaceDJ divides each track into its core individual elements, each of which can be added to every track you create. These elements include drums, lead, rhythm, guitar, bass, cymbals, and piano. When you open each track or project, you see all the elements at the bottom of your screen.

You create your own DJ tracks by either altering the pre-assembled tracks or by forming new tracks from the available elements. You can create a track with just one element or as many as you'd like. You can also combine any elements together to create a new track.

Once you've selected elements for your track, you drag them onto a turntable at the top of the composition screen to create a new track (or edit an existing one, for that matter). You can also adjust the volume of each element, dragging it to center of the turntable to make it louder.

While each track can only hold up to 10 different elements, you can create a track using those elements in almost any combination imaginable. While this does mean that you are limited by the elements you selected at the beginning, the fun of combining those elements to make new songs never grows old. After you create a track, you can save it, and the app will automatically identify it with a genre based on the elements you selected for your song.