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| Damian Lazarus: Devil Night Tour diary entry #4 Posted: 19 Nov 2008 03:44 PM CST Now in its fourth edition, Crosstown Rebels boss Damian Lazarus has been sharing his innermost thoughts with Beatportal users as he spins his way across North America for his second annual Devil Night Tour. Those of you who have been following the action thus far will have realised this is far more than a boring, self-promotional DJ tour diary; rather, it's an honest account of life as a traveling DJ, pondering such great issues of the day as DJ sing-songs, sub-standard club gigs and the Muppets... |
| Video: How Roger Sanchez builds beats Posted: 19 Nov 2008 02:12 PM CST Roger Sanchez was kind enough to invite Beatportal into his studio in his villa in Ibiza to get a sneak peak of how he builds beats. The studio session was based around a new remix of his track 'Bang That Box' which was released today. |
| Beatport Burners: Episode 87 - Beatport Posted: 19 Nov 2008 01:00 PM CST 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 Noir, Ad Brown, a Mark Knight & Funkagenda remix of Pete Gooding & James Doman feat. Dru, Ultra, Cr2 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. |
| Tutorial: How to use modulation effects Posted: 19 Nov 2008 01:00 PM CST With compression, gates, delay and reverb covered, we’ll now delve into the mysteries of modulation effects. Flanging, chorusing, phasers, tremolo, and auto-panning are the most common types of modulation effects in modern synths and digital audio workstation software. Since each of these effects has its own flavor, this tutorial will cover the specifics of what to use and when to use it. For example, flangers are great for adding animation to percussion and sweeps, but can be problematic when used on bass. Let’s find out why. |
| Justice respond, ‘The USB cable fell out!’ Posted: 19 Nov 2008 10:56 AM CST Yesterday we published a photo revealing Justice's Gaspard Augé to be using a MIDI controller that wasn't plugged in, and now they've responded to the allegations that the duo fake their live sets. "I couldn't remember the city but I think it was in Manchester," he said. "I didn't notice at first, because as you can see I was looking at the computer to launch the next vocal hook and right after I realised that the blue screen went black, so there was no way possible it could work. So I plugged it back in, big deal! And the next thing you know is this picture." |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2008 10:25 AM CST With his instantly recognizable minimal sound, Gaiser is one of the most talented producers in the Minus camp, and his debut artist album 'Blank Fade' has been a long time coming. The wait was well worth it though, as 'Blank Fade' is his most impressive body of work yet and further proves Gaiser's one of the geniuses of the minimal genre. To celebrate the release of 'Blank Fade', Beatportal has teamed up with Minus to offer three lucky winners the chance to win some very rare Minus swag including new Gaiser 'Blank Fade' tshirts and handmade leather bracelets with sterling silver Minus logos. |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2008 08:27 AM CST Kicking off with a rather sinister plucking of a bass guitar string, this track could easily have been the intro for a Black Sabbath tune, but once those breaks start kicking off you know it’s something more perverse. Returning from their recent Moby remix, the Dutch noise-core trio don’t disappoint with this hard edged d&b number taken from their fiery Fabric mix. |
| Musinaut offer free MXP4 training in London Posted: 19 Nov 2008 03:22 AM CST MP3 might be the preferred format of choice for digital music files currently, but since its launch in September over 5000 artists have downloaded the free next generation MXP4 Creator from Musinaut. The French company hopes to change the way we consume digital music with its new MXP4 technology which offers better encoding quality than MP3, plus splits digital music files into layers and tracks, allowing users to create their own remixes on the fly. They're now also offering a free three-hour MXP4 training class in central London on 25th and 26th November with the aim of educating consumers about the benefits of the new technology. |
| Posted: 18 Nov 2008 09:09 PM CST Polish label Apparition Recordings is an interesting new discovery for us recently. While the previous two releases on the label were more conceptual electronica, the new 'Formart' EP from Fabienne features three uncomplicated dubby techno and tech house tracks in a similar style to the recent output of Move D & Benjamin Brunn, Touane or the more dancefloor-orientated works of early Murcof. |
| Justice faking their live sets? Posted: 18 Nov 2008 05:25 PM CST Poor old Justice are having a hard week. Last Thursday the duo admitted in an interview that their album [†] contained at least 400 uncleared samples, and now comes this photo which shows the pair faking it during a live set. The MIDI controller on the left ain't plugged in, but the tall fuzzy-haired one is pretending that it is - he's got an intense concentrated look on his face whilst moving the faders and knobs. Busted! |
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