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| Beatport Burners: Episode 80 - Beatport Posted: 08 Oct 2008 10:52 PM CDT Beatport Burners take the hottest new releases out there and wrap them up in a nice little weekly podcast, painstakingly handpicked by Beatport staff. If you're a DJ looking for what's hot right now, then you need a dose of our weekly Beatport Burners, which includes tracks that are sure to be blowing up a dancefloor near you. This week we're serving up a fresh mix of Pryda Recordings, Paragraph, Echoes Records and Bedrock Records 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. |
| ‘Sky and Sand’ - Paul Kalkbrenner Posted: 08 Oct 2008 09:49 PM CDT It's been appearing in Paul Kalkbrenner's live sets for a while, and now this melodic techno anthem is finally available on Beatport as part of the soundtrack for the much-anticipated movie 'Berlin Calling'. The lyrics were written and sung by Paul's younger brother Fritz Kalkbrenner, giving the track a melancholy sweetness that will surely make it the biggest hit spawned by the film. Read this music recommendation on Beatportal |
| Production Master Class: Intros and Outros Posted: 08 Oct 2008 08:00 PM CDT Welcome to the Beatportal Master Class series on production techniques. Starting this month, we’ll be polling Beatport artists and producers on their approaches to various production techniques and reporting their answers in roundtable format. As artists, we all have our own preferences and philosophies that comprise our sound, and those philosophies are what makes each artist unique - and to some DJs and audiences, even inspirational. In the interest of increasing that inspiration, we’ll be getting insights and tips from producers with tried-and-true techniques that have earned them their place at the peak of many DJ sets. This month, we’ll be talking about approaches to track intros and outros. |
| The Shapeshifters announce North American tour Posted: 08 Oct 2008 07:00 PM CDT UK house duo The Shapeshifters have announced details of a seven-date North American tour kicking-off on Halloween. Mansion in New York will play host to the first party October 31st with dates at Vinyl in Denver, Ultra Bar in Washington and Set in Miami to follow throughout November. See full details after the jump. |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:48 PM CDT Stimming, the tech house man of the moment, recently struck gold with his EP for Diynamic Music, 'Una Pena'. This jam features tough beats, tripped out FX and a surprise hook that should keep dancefloors happy. Read this music recommendation on Beatportal |
| Adam Beyer’s Top 10 chart for Drumcode Tour Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:29 PM CDT From tomorrow, Beatportal will be joining Swedish techno spinner Adam Beyer and his DJ cohort Joel Mull on their North American tour. During our live blog, the Drumcode pair will be playing at Cielo in New York, Circa in Toronto and 90 Degrees in Miami and we'll be there reporting on all the action as it happens at: www.beatportal.com/topics/c/drumcode-tour Ahead of the tour, we asked Adam Beyer to provide his Top 10 DJ chart so that we could have a taster of what to expect during the tour. Check out Adam Beyer's Top 10 after the jump! |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:55 PM CDT Coachella festival has set the benchmark high for US-based music festivals - when Beatportal checked out the 2008 edition, we were knocked sideways by how clean it was, how well organised it was, and by how bad ass the sound and lighting were on the different stages. The main stage even had surround sound, which they utilised just for Roger Waters (from Pink Floyd) set. The organisers of Coachella had this clever plastic bottle collection system whereby attendees who picked up 10 plastic bottles and delivered them to a recycling point were given a free bottle of water. The result was a trash-free festival ground. |
| Dubstep forum closed down indefinitely Posted: 08 Oct 2008 01:24 PM CDT Dubstepforum.com, highly regarded as the number one source for news, discussions, new mixes and events, has closed down after three successful years. In a statement the site says, “We’re also closing the forum. Indefinitely", providing no further indication as to whether the forum will go back up. |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2008 10:21 AM CDT The trio dOP are the latest French sensation, but unlike Justice or Daft Punk, or disco house or any other French sound that might come to your mind, dOP sound more like Nôze. Beatportal grabs Dam from dOP to ask him some questions, but it ends up turning into a joke fest. |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2008 07:13 AM CDT Commix were one of the highlights of last year, and the original of this track was a dance floor annihilator for 2007. Taken from the new ‘Metalheadz Presents The Platinum Series’, featuring some killer new cuts from the Metalheadz camp, this track has been reworked by the one and only, Break. Read this music recommendation on Beatportal |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2008 03:03 AM CDT If you're into high brow electronic music composition, Mnml ssgs have a Q&A with New York's Ezekiel Honig, a producer who takes reference from musique concrete and people like John Cage. "I don’t consider using electronic sounds (synths, drum machines, etc.) because there is so much interesting sound in the world already, and it’s impossible to run out of material when you think of it in that way," said Ezekiel Honig, who runs the labels Microcosm and Anticipate. Ezekiel Honig's 'Scattered Practices' album from 2006 sums up his idiosyncratic flourishes with sonic forging - check it in the player after the jump. |
| Girls Suckcess - Marcus Schossow Posted: 08 Oct 2008 12:18 AM CDT Innovative Swedish trance producer, Marcus Schossow discovered his own unique sound when he created the track ‘Mr White’ last year, and his most recent production, ‘Girls Suckcess’, follows the same style. Read this music recommendation on Beatportal |
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