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| DJ Hell’s ‘Teufelswerk’ the best dance album of all time? Posted: 08 May 2009 08:24 AM PDT Britain's The Guardian newspaper is calling DJ Hell's 'Teufelswerk' 'one of the most ambitious and cogent dance music albums of, well, all time.' DJ Magazine crowned 'Teufelswerk' its Album of the Month. Even indie rock rag NME is proclaiming the LP 'one of the greatest dance music albums ever made' (although to be fair, they've probably only ever heard three). Even so, the hype surround DJ Hell's new album is shockingly positive. There hasn't been a crossover, mass appeal dance album that has garnered such widespread praise for quite some time. So either 'Teufelswerk' is an astounding body of work, or the mainstream press have decided to hop on the dance music bandwagon yet again and DJ Hell just so happens to be their latest hype mongrel. |
| Posted: 07 May 2009 08:48 PM PDT Nic Fanciulli's laptop will be by his side for the next 32 days whilst he tours North America. He's a fully converted digital DJ and uses Native Instruments' digital DJ software Traktor for all of his gigs. But what is it about Traktor that Nic loves so much? How does he use it to improve his DJ sets? What is Nic's Traktor set up like? I conducted an audio interview with Nic to find out. |
| Top 10 DJ Chart - Stickman Records Posted: 07 May 2009 05:13 PM PDT Welcome to the wonderful world of Stickman Records. Well, anyway, a small sampling of it. Label owner Greg Zwarich treats us to an aural stroll down memory lane with some of the finest house music ever to come out of Ontario, Canada… or anywhere for that matter. |
| Posted: 07 May 2009 03:09 PM PDT Speaking of early rave days (well, I was, even if you weren’t)… remember Rabbit In The Moon? Surely you at least remember being in the crowd at a dark sweaty rave and coming to the slow but certain realization that there was a man on stage dressed in some sort of armor suit pressing a metal grinder to himself shooting off sparks in every direction making beautiful tiny rays of fire? |
| Bizarre video, weird track, strange name Posted: 07 May 2009 12:08 PM PDT Everything about Daniel Savio's 'Monkey Pee Monkey Poo' is weird. The video is bizarre and intoxicating with its overexposed, channel inverted structure bringing strange colours and twisted images to the fore. The track is a type of music known as 'skweee', a style of electronic music that combines simple synth leads and basslines with funk, r&b, or soul-like rhythms, overall leading to a stripped-down funky sound. And the title, well, speaks for itself. |
| Posted: 07 May 2009 09:21 AM PDT The superstar DJ is dead. The superclub is defunct. The beat is still going. Nic Fanciulli lives in a post-superstar DJ world. He is part of a new generation of dance music jocks who have far more talent than they do luck. Fanciulli represents the second wave of globetrotting DJs who unlike their predecessors, work hard, get paid modestly, and do almost everything themselves. They've learnt from the mistakes of those who've spun before them. There is no sense of entitlement, there is no rampaging ego, there is only love and gratitude. |
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