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| Genrecast: Chill Out 09 - Beatport Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:50 PM CST For this week's installment of the Chill Out Genrecast, we set it off with tracks from Terrence Parker, Kevin Yost, Gramatik, Beat Pharmacy, and more. Similar to the Beatport Burners, the Genrecast is an 'enhanced' podcast, which means each track in the mix has a track mark and shows the release artwork, so when you listen to it in iTunes or on your iPod you'll be able to skip through tracks in the mix, see the cover art of each release and click through to Beatport to buy the release. It's the easiest way for DJs to do record shopping! |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:45 PM CST Never slowing down with their award winning releases, Loopmasters have launched a few new and noteworthy sample libraries. On the celebrity soundware tip, Riley And Durrant – Progressive House Producer is a strong offering that spans progressive, tech and electro. For Ableton Live users, Carl Finlow’s IL.EK.TRO Silicon Live Pack looks to be nifty collection of both loops and Live instruments that focuses on tech and electro. |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2008 02:38 PM CST Our eternal quest to find the most upfront tunes continues this week with British DJ Chris Lake who reveals his Weekend Weapons for the Beatportal community. Lauded as an innovative producer with an ability to fuse together house, electro and progressive house, Lake in the past has collaborated with both Deadmau5 and Sebastien Leger and recently remixed Australian singer Sia. This past weekend Chris played Essence Festival in The Netherlands, and here are his three biggest dancefloor destroyers. |
| The Beatport 20 radio show episode 06 Posted: 08 Dec 2008 01:30 PM CST The Beatport 20 radio show brings together the top selling releases on Beatport.com from the previous week along with an upfront selection, chosen painstakingly by Beatport's team of electronic music experts. This second episode highlights tracks from Sten, Kode 9 & LD, Joey Negro, Sharooz, Iboga Records, Spectral Sound and plenty more. Click through to see the tracklist for this week's episode. |
| 2008 according to…Marcel Dettmann Posted: 08 Dec 2008 10:26 AM CST "2008 was a really exciting and important year for me private and business wise," says Marcel Dettmann in the first of our artist of the year 2008 profiles. Anyone with even a passing interest in techno in 2008 couldn't have failed to notice the impact that Dettmann made on the scene. Not only did he enjoy what will surely be seen as the defining year of his career, Dettmann also had a great 12 months from a personal perspective: "I met the princess of my heart," he touchingly revealed. "She gives me the strength and the positive power to challenge myself every day." |
| Pete Tong announces IMS 2009 dates Posted: 08 Dec 2008 10:22 AM CST Following on from the success of his intimate industry-focused electronic music conference in Ibiza, DJ Pete Tong has announced that the 2009 International Music Summit (IMS) will take place from 27th - 29th May. Tong said that IMS 2008 had impacted the future of the scene and the way the music industry moves forward. "The response was overwhelming; people walked away with ideas for the future, with new relationships forged from different aspects of electronica and the film and brand industry," said Tong. "In 2009, we aim to build on this with some exciting new initiatives to be announced in Ibiza.” |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:37 AM CST There is something incredibly satisfying about listening to Alvaro Ernesto's 'J.A.C.K.' It has to do with the fact the track is unashamedly straight up house music, and untainted by any surrounding genres. Jacking house music doesn't get much better than this. |
| Posted: 07 Dec 2008 05:29 PM CST Switzerland has been helping to lead the deep house revival in 2008, and the output of Agnes in particular has been particularly refreshing. Having graduated in the minimal scene with his 2007 longplayer 'Dumbles Debut', Agnes' remix of Liapin 'Redskin' taken from his 'Tonkawa' EP shows how his sound has become fuller and more loop based. |
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