11 September 2008

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News | Francesco Tristano ‘Auricle Bio On’

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 10:42 PM CDT

After having paired up with Murcof on his first album 'Not For Piano' on InFiné and being remixed by Apparat, Kiki, Balil and Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano will release 10th November 'Auricle Bio On' a keystone post-produced by Moritz Von Oswald, propelling his career towards new and unexplored sonic territories.

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News | Remix Hotel Atlanta 2008

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 09:25 PM CDT

Remix Hotel is heading to SAE Institute of Technology in Atlanta from September 18th through the 20th for another jam-packed, all-inclusive weekend of music-production technology, master classes, panels, demos, artist performances and more. The extensive panelist lineup for this time around includes appearances by Needlz, Don Cannon, Bryan-Michael Cox, J-Live, Kandi Burruss, Trak Starz, DJ Toomp, Richard Devine and several others.

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Podcast | Beatport Burners: Episode 77 - Beatport

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 08:00 PM CDT

Beatport Burners take the hottest new releases out there and wrap them up in a nice little weekly podcast, handpicked by Beatport staff so you don't have to sift through the swag. If you're a DJ looking for what's hot right now, then you need a weekly dose of these podcasts, which include tracks that are sure to be blowing up a dancefloor near you. This week we're serving up a fresh mix of Djuma Soundsystem & Flip, Robert Babicz, Deadmau5, a Style of Eye remix of Josh Gabriel, Ultra, Vapour and more. And remember that Beatport Burners are 'enhanced podcasts', so you can skip through tracks, see the cover art and click through to Beatport to download releases. So get in on the mix and check them out.

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News | Top Track: Forsaken ‘Last Saloon Swagger’

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 06:03 PM CDT

The problem with most underground scenes is that when they start to break into the main stream a lot of bandwagon jumpers tend to dilute the musical output and many tunes start merging into one, big homogenous sound. It takes a few select artists or labels to push the musical direction into new areas, to push through experimentation and imagination into their output; Forsaken is one of these people.

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News | Exclusive Interview with Appart

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 02:07 PM CDT

Producer Anthony Rouchier aka Appart has set aside some time for his Beatport fans to share with them a little bit about his most recent release, 'Flamencotronics' on Milan Records.

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News | Interview: Serge Santiago - an education in Italo

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 11:03 AM CDT

The We Love resident explains his love for experimental Italo disco. Serge Santiago couldn’t care less about following trends.

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News | 54 Music London Launch Competition to Find The World’s Hottest Talent

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:30 AM CDT

54 Music invites you to join them on their journey to becoming the most talked-about, innovative, boundary smashing label in the UK. With a launch set for in March 2009, in time for the Miami Winter Music Conference (WMC), the label has one clear, objective - to search for the future stars of tomorrow. 54 Music is set to take dancefloors by storm, launching a nationwide search for talented artists and producers, giving them the chance to make the trip Miami for the WMC with them, and releasing or remixing a track on either side of the label.

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News | Audion ‘Billy Says Go’ remix competition

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 03:38 AM CDT

Leading techno artist Matthew Dear aka Audion is offering fans a chance to remix one of the biggest techno tracks of 2008, Audion's 'Billy Says Go' on Spectral Sound. Two remix parts are available to download for free, and there's also a premium bundle for sale for $3.99 containing all the parts to 'Billy Says Go'. Participants are free to remix the track into whatever genre they like, and the top remixes will be listened to by Spectral Sound. As usual, the Beatport and Beatportal community will have the chance to vote for the best submitted remixes by 'spinning' their favorites. Click through for further details and prize information.

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News | Dirty South interview

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 12:46 AM CDT

Grammy nominated DJ and producer Dirty South is about to drop a new release on Toolroom Records on September 15th. Click through for the scoop on this forthcoming album's sound, its construction and Dirty South's opinion on the state of house these days.

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Videos | Meet Allan Klinbail, Melbourne’s own tech house hero

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.

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Videos | Richie 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.

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