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| Featured Interview: Meat Katie Posted: 13 Nov 2008 03:42 PM CST Meat Katie has been at the summit of the breaks and tech house scene now for over a decade. His first major release was the big beat project, ‘Ceasefire’, which secured him an album deal on Wall of Sound way back in 1995. Now heading up the LOT49 label, Meat Katie, aka Mark Pember and his fellow tech house cohorts, are in the process of building up a massive repertoire of dancefloor artillery for your listening pleasure. |
| Genrecast: Trance 16 - Beatport Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:00 PM CST This week's installation of the Trance Genrecast was handpicked and sorted by Beatport staff, and represents a selection of favorite trance classics. As always, this Genrecast is an enhanced podcast, meaning you can view the artwork, skip through tracks, and purchase the tracks that are linked directly for download from Beatport. This week's trance genrecast features Tigerskin, Deadmau5, Vandit Records, In Trance We Trust and more. |
| New searches for New York’s clubs Posted: 13 Nov 2008 12:43 PM CST On Friday June 27th 2008, something changed in New York City. In the space of just 24 hours, 11 nightclubs and bars were raided by police and forced to close, seven in Manhattan and four in Brooklyn. The timing couldn't have been worse for Pacha, Marquee, Splash and the other shuttered venues - Gay Pride weekend was taking place, typically one of the busiest weekends of the year for New York's clubs. It was a night of nuisance abatements; the punishment New York's authorities dish out to establishments that supposedly “endanger public health and safety” by "allowing" illegal drug sales, prostitution or gambling. Since then, numbers in clubs in New York have begun to dwindle thanks to airport-like security checks being employed at almost every club front door across the city. |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2008 10:44 AM CST French electro duo Justice have admitted what many of their fans have suspected for many moons - they don't clear all of their samples. In an interview for MTV the pair came clean on the issue, saying that they 'borrowed' bits of Slipknot, Queen and 50 Cent, "but they are such short samples no one can recognize them." Xavier de Rosnay of the band said "On the album, [†], we maybe sampled 400 records." |
| Share your DJ gear reviews at EQDJ Posted: 13 Nov 2008 06:36 AM CST EQDJ, found at equipment-dj.com, is a new service which will allow DJs and producers to share their opinions and critiques of the latest equipment in one convenient place. Instead of having to search through page after page of fragmented information, this site consolidates hundreds of reviews, saving the user from the frustration of endless searching. Already at the number one spot on Google.co.uk for the search terms "dj equipment reviews", the developers are now shouting the site's merits across the hilltops. Click through for the skinny. |
| M.A.N.D.Y. tour: South America Posted: 13 Nov 2008 03:16 AM CST M.A.N.D.Y.'s tour of the Americas continues, taking the Get Physical duo to southern climes where they experience the permeating warmth of Latin culture. In this latest installment of their video tour diary, we find them in the Dominican Republic conducting a radio interview at a local station and later at that night's set in Santo Domingo. It goes without saying that no less than utter madness could be expected from these two, judging from what happened on their last tour that Beatportal's Industry Boy covered in his live blog. Click through for an additional, NSFW video of them in which Patrick gives a firsthand account of a proposition he received from a fan, as well as some other visual surprises. There's also a flickr slideshow of their most recent goings on. |
| Recommended Top 10 - Seth Troxler Posted: 12 Nov 2008 09:27 PM CST As a sort of celebratory nod towards the release of Seth Troxler's 'Love Never Sleeps', we decided to highlight his current Beatport Top 10 for your listening pleasure. Although the one-to-watch tag is often lazily thrown around, Troxler's recent output has garnered him with the title, thanks in part to the aforementioned Crosstown Rebels release and his recent 'Sexplosion EP' effort under his Sex Trothler moniker for Wagon Repair. |
| Free download: Jay Haze ‘Love & Beyond’ Pt. 3 Posted: 12 Nov 2008 05:41 PM CST Following the fire sale of part 2 of his new album 'Love & Beyond', Jay Haze is now offering part 3 of his LP as a free download through his website. The final piece of 'Love & Beyond' sees Haze center of pure instrumentals laden with melancholic broken beats, downtempo jazz and glitchy landscapes. It reveals what we always knew - that Jay Haze is man with many faces. |
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