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| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:12 PM CST One of the biggest surprises to have dropped during day 1 of NAMM 2009 was news of Steinberg's remote control iPhone app for Cubase, called Cubase RC. The app will run on an iPhone or iPod Touch and connects via Wi-Fi. |
| Above & Beyond’s 2009 North America tour Posted: 16 Jan 2009 12:39 PM CST Trance threesome Above & Beyond have announced that they will be touring across North America from January 17th - February 23rd. |
| Desperate to name a track? Use Beatportal’s BeatDetect! Posted: 16 Jan 2009 11:38 AM CST Ever been to a club and heard a DJ drop a great record that afterwards you were desperate to name? Or ever listened to a DJ mix and felt compelled to track down that bomb from 00.15.36? Yes, we have too. That's why we've decided to launch a brand new Track ID section on Beatportal, which we're calling BeatDetect. Simply embed a YouTube (or any embeddable web video) clip of a DJ dropping a killer track, or upload an audio clip of a tune that you really what to ID, and the ever-knowledgeable Beatportal community will hopefully ID it for you. Submit your Track ID requests, and help others find their dancefloor bombs, at: www.beatportal.com/beatdetect |
| Ministry of Sound to host monthy NYC events Posted: 16 Jan 2009 10:18 AM CST British clubbing giant Ministry of Sound has announced that at the end of January it will begin hosting monthly parties in New York City at 530 West 28th St (formerly Mansion). Look out Pacha. Ministry of Sound, which is the world's biggest dance brand, recently opened an office in New York, and the party on January 30th 2009 is the first major event to have come out of the Stateside venture. |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 08:01 AM CST With thousands of electronic music producers out there vying for a place in our collective consciousness, Beatportal has decided to name six artists whom we feel deserve to realise greatness in 2009. Our list comprises mainly of producers who did great things in 2008, and they will, we feel, have their profiles raised to stratospheric levels within the next 12 months. |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2009 04:27 AM CST Omar S has been placed in line to mix the next installment of the fabled Fabric mix series. The Detroit producer has taken the path trodden by Ricardo Villalobos and opted to build his Fabric mix entirely from his own productions. |
| Brit government wants 70 db limit in venues Posted: 16 Jan 2009 03:22 AM CST Live music fans and clubbers in Britain are currently petitioning the government over its plans to introduce sound control devices as a legal requirement for entertainment venues. Although unconfirmed at this point, the organisers behind the online petition believe the devices cut-off point will be "dreadfully low", at around 70 dB. |
| Records Back - Hardy Hard, Lady Waks and Mr.X Posted: 15 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST Hardy Hard and Lady Waks stormed to the front of modern day breakbeat back in 2007 with their cheeky parody on 'Minimal' music - the Rogue Element remix ended up becoming one of the biggest breakbeat anthems of that year. Now they’re back with a party breaks tune that has a similar note structure to Justin Timberlake’s ‘Sexyback’, and comes with a storming nu-skool breaks remix from Robosapiens. This time they attack laptop DJs. |
| Native Instruments unveils Maschine Posted: 15 Jan 2009 05:38 PM CST Today at NAMM 2009, Native Instruments unveiled its new Maschine, "a next-generation groove production studio that makes beat creation and arrangement more immediate and tactile than ever before." The system is a combination of software and an outboard controller, which is seamlessly integrated. The idea is that the groove production process is as easy as the days of analogue drum machines, but the power, stability and flexibility of software is available too. Yes, when we saw it a little bit of wee came out too. |
| Native Instruments introduces Audio 4 DJ Posted: 15 Jan 2009 03:28 PM CST Today at the NAMM show Native Instruments unveiled their cheaper USB 2.0 audio interface for Traktor, called Audio 4 DJ. It's basically a half version of NI's famed Audio 8 DJ interface. |
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