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| News | Los Angeles claims USA’s dance music crown Posted: 09 Sep 2008 10:46 PM CDT As Hunter S. Thompson might say, Hollywood is a cruel and shallow money trench, a plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side. Ever since the booming 1930’s movie industry, Hollywood’s reputation has been double-sided. It is the glamour capital and dream factory; but people also “come to California to die,” wrote Nathanael West in his novel ‘Day of The Locust’ (1939), a book that revolves around characters whose dreams of success have effectively failed. Today the divide between those who see Hollywood as a place for ruthless self-advancement, and those who view Tinseltown through cynical, deluded eyes is still there. |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2008 10:15 PM CDT I’m going to rear-vision you a decade back, to Melbourne’s (Australia’s) tech-house heyday, when that city was up in the Top 5 international cities for the style, and every international DJ/producer of tech-house worth made his way down most weekends. On one particular date – it was September 5th, 1998 – we had the Swedish triumvirate of Cari Lekebusch, Adam Beyer and Christian Smith all lined up together to headline at Hardware 13, in the massive Shed 14 down at Victoria Docks in Melbourne. Watch this video on Beatportal.com |
| News | Interview with The Zoo Project’s Live act Saytek Posted: 09 Sep 2008 09:17 PM CDT The Zoo Project’s live act Saytek has gained a reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative live acts around. His undying love of hardware sees him regularly arriving at clubs with a Roland work station, synths, Ableton, Kaos pads and various other noise mangling gadgets and weaving together a seamless mix of floor shaking electronic that is as live as humanly possible . |
| News | ‘Waxpoetics Japan’ to be launched soon Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:25 PM CDT Great news for all soul, jazz, funk and hip-hop lovers in Japan. One of America's most acclaimed and most respected music periodicals out of Brooklyn, 'Waxpoetics' will launch its Japanese edition on October 27th. It makes perfect sense as many of us music geeks living in the biggest record collecting nation have been purchasing the magazine's original editions anyway, even though we couldn't fully understand what it was saying. |
| News | Leading music journalist attacks vinyl fans Posted: 09 Sep 2008 05:51 PM CDT Semi-notorious British music journalist Steven Wells has launched a scathing assault on "loathsome turntable-owning nerds" in a new post for his Guardian Unlimited blog. His attention-seeking vitriol has predictably resulted in an outcry from the vinyl-worshiping community, but beyond the over-the-top rhetoric and questionable attempts at humor, does Wells have a point? |
| News | Little Nobody bears forbidden fruit Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:04 PM CDT Never imagined you could slot together two such disparate terms as "weird" and "beautiful"? Think again. 'Woklurk Orange' is one of the more gorgeous EPs I’ve heard this year – weird or not. "Funnily enough, it has everything and nothing to do with the movie," Andrez Bergen tells me down a particularly crackly phone line from Tokyo, Japan. Bergen is referring to neither weird nor beautiful, but to Stanley Kubrick's seminal sci-fi movie, A Clockwork Orange, and to his new EP's similar-sounding name: 'Woklurk Orange'. |
| News | Carl Craig and Moritz von Oswald to perform live with classical ensemble at Berghain Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:20 PM CDT In a little more than a month, on October 17th, Moritz von Oswald and Carl Craig's recomposition of Maurice Ravel's 'Bolero' will be released on the German jazz-label Deutsche Grammophon. Ten days prior to that, on October 7th, the two techno originators will take this recomposition to the dancefloor of Berlin's Berghain., live with a classical ensemble. |
| News | Billy Dalessandro unleashes new alias, Tyrone, with debut EP on Siteholder UnCut Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:51 AM CDT Chicago-based producer Billy Dalessandro has never lacked for quantity when it comes to busting out tracks at a breakneck speed. What separates him from the rest of the pack, however, is the undeniable quality accompanying each individual production that has launched his status to that of an elite few in the genres of house and techno. Following the success of his Huge Hephner alias (whose recently released 'Nymphotech' full length LP continues to garner critical acclaim and top tier DJ support), Dalessandro returns with a newly developed style that falls under the alias of Tyrone. |
| Videos | Tiefschwarz: Noze - ‘Danse Avec Moi (Sascha Funke Remix)’ Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:42 AM CDT In this video we see Tiefschwarz dropping one of the summer's sleepers, the Sascha Funke remix of Nôze's 'Danse Avec Moi' at Electro Nation in Amsterdam. From the Get Physical label, Sascha Funke has given Noze's 'Danse Avec Moi' a total and complete club-friendly makeover, working the sultry vocals of Dani Siciliano so they punctuate the track with a sexy stamp. Watch this video on Beatportal.com |
| Videos | Riche Hawtin’s DJ set up revisited Posted: 09 Sep 2008 01:21 AM CDT In this educational and comprehensive video interview, Mr. Techno himself Richie Hawtin breaks down the features of his complicated DJ setup in layman's terms. Elaborating upon a previous posting, here we get to see exactly what happens behind the decks as he demystifies the rather complex interplay of his own setup and the intricate dance of technology involved in the making of a Kontact show. What the Minus man relies on to make his sets so stellar is his arsenal of gear: two Macbooks, an Allen & Heath Xone 69 or Xone 92, and two Allen & Heath 1D MIDI Controllers. Watch this video on Beatportal.com |
| News | Charles Webster ‘Coast2Coast’ out on NRK Posted: 09 Sep 2008 12:29 AM CDT UK dance veteran, Charles Webster, compiles the latest Coast2Coast. A double mix treat for lovers of the deep techy sound, with tracks & mixes from Pepe Braddock, Roy Davis Jr, Henrick Schwarz and Chez Damier. Includes 6 brand new Webster remixes, exclusive to this comp. Now available as a digital album on Beatport. |
| News | Filterheadz - Day At The Beach Contest Posted: 08 Sep 2008 06:09 PM CDT For those who haven’t had the chance to check out Filterheadz's comeback-release on Sander van Doorn’s Doorn label, now may be the time to do so. Doorn’s mothership Spinnin’ Records is handing out some neat, sand-colored UDG bags containing the vinyl release to five lucky downloaders. |
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