12 July 2008

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News | Video: Inside Club Yellow’s final parties, part 1

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 10:46 PM CDT

Club Yellow in Tokyo finally closed its doors at around 5am on Monday 23rd June after 17 glorious years of electronic music bliss. Beatportal was there for the entire week and attended every closing party to report on the closure of one of the greatest dance music clubs the world has ever seen. But then we realised that many of you may not have been to Club Yellow, and that our usual text and photos wouldn't do the experience of attending Club Yellow's final parties real justice. So we thought we would film the parties as well, but rather than just show the high points of the night, we would film the mundane too. The queue at the bar, the club's famous hypnotic flashing lights, the clubbers asleep on the stairs after a marathon dance, the happy party goers in the queue outside, as well as the usual highlights from the DJ booth and the big dancefloor destroying tracks. We hope it gives you some feeling as to what made Club Yellow so special, and what it was like to attend the club's last ever parties. After the break watch our exclusive video! We'll upload part 2 on Monday.

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News | What’s in the DJ’s box: Clive Henry

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 08:51 PM CDT

Take a look inside the record box of one of underground house music’s most respected DJs. Getting onto the residents' roster at Circoloco at DC10 in Ibiza is not easy.

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News | REVIEW: Pete Tong’s Wonderland in Club Eden, Ibiza

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 06:33 PM CDT

You've all heard about Space and Amnesia in Ibiza, and how they're technically the best clubs on the self-styled "Party Island". But what about ones like Eden: the subject of a major financial facelift in 2008? If the biggest DJ in the world – Pete Tong – moved his residency there, its surrounding San Antonio district surely offers more than regurgitating last night's paella on the kerb?

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News | Fabric owners unveil Matter club at The O2 Arena

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 04:55 PM CDT

The owners behind London's Fabric have revealed that their new superclub at The O2 arena (formerly known as the Millennium Dome) will be called 'Matter'. The three-floored giant is scheduled to open in September and at 32,737 square feet it will be capable of hosting up to 2,600 patrons. And much like Fabric, Matter will encorporate state-of-the-art technology to create a futuristic dancing space.

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News | Top Track: Carte Blanche (Cosmic Gate Remix)

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 02:33 PM CDT

It’s a risky business remixing classic tunes. You wouldn’t want to get accused of ruining an anthem. But Cosmic Gate can’t seem to do anything wrong (well, apart from the release of ‘Fire Wire’ perhaps, but, hey, that was so long ago now it can be easily forgotten about).

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News | Exit festival going on now

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 05:59 AM CDT

Serbia's Exit Festival started out as a protest against Slobodan Milosevic's authority, and is now a three-day event attracting some of the biggest names in electronic music. Happening right now, Exit 08 runs from the 10th to 13th July at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, with over 500 artists on 20 festival stages performing, and over 100,000 people expected to attend. You can expect a pretty diverse line-up for this jam-packed, four-day event, with live acts and DJs ranging in diversity from the Sex Pistols through to Kruder & Dorfmeister and beyond. Check out some of the charts of the DJs in attendance and partial line-up listing after the jump.

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News | Gavin Herlihy Top 10 DJ chart

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 12:48 AM CDT

Former Mixmag editor Gavin Herlihy now lives in Berlin and is currently becoming a bit of a star of the underground, having recently been picked up by Get Physical Music. His quirky blend of forward-thinking house and techno definitely has a unique quality to it. Believe it or not, Gavin has done a remix of Get Physical's summer smash Dakkar 'I've Got That Feeling', which is just one of the sexy techy/deep house cuts featured in his Top 10 DJ chart for July.

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