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| The New Beatport is almost here Posted: 21 Jan 2009 03:43 PM CST Beatport's engineering department currently resembles something of an after party, as bloodshot eyes and the stench of sweat haunts the room. Fingers are frantically tapping on keyboards and screens are burdened with row after row of 1s and 0s, as developers and designers, database administrators and IT geeks scramble to push the New Beatport. Beatportal joyfully skipped down into the chaos to bug the world's most stressed lead engineer, and his half grunt, half cuss message was this: Beatport 4.0 will launch in a few hours. |
| Christian Smith relaunches Tronic label Posted: 21 Jan 2009 03:11 PM CST Techno DJ Christian Smith has just announced that he will relaunch his crossover house and techno label Tronic at the beginning of March. The imprint had been stagnant since 2007. |
| Beatport Burners: Episode 93 - Beatport Posted: 21 Jan 2009 01:00 PM CST Beatport Burners take the hottest new releases out there and wrap them up in a nice little weekly podcast, painstakingly handpicked by Beatport staff. If you're a DJ looking for what's hot right now, then you need a dose of our weekly Beatport Burners, which includes tracks that are sure to be blowing up a dancefloor near you. This week we're serving up a fresh mix of Wolfgang Gartner, Jaytech, a P.T.M. remix of Dirty South, and some beats from Chakaboom and High Contrast Recordings. And remember that Beatport Burners are 'enhanced podcasts', so you can skip through tracks, see the cover art and click through to Beatport to download releases. |
| First impressions: Gui Boratto’s ‘Take My Breath Away’ Posted: 21 Jan 2009 09:54 AM CST Brazil's Gui Boratto elegantly introduced clubland to his unique world of dreamy melodic techno in 2007 with his debut 'Chromophobia'. The LPs melancholy, high production aesthetic, and electro-pop sensibilities ('Beautiful Life' was one of the biggest sing-a-long anthems of that year) made Gui a star around the world. Kompakt will release his second album 'Take My Breath Away' on 23rd March, right before Miami's annual WMC, and today Beatportal had a sneaky listen. |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2009 04:29 AM CST Fresh from their Mary Ann Hobb’s showcase, French dubsteppers 7even Recordings drop their latest bundle of techno driven dubstep by the mysterious F. F has managed to craft sounds deeper than the Grand Canyon and yet more epic than anything Aronofsky could ever dream about. |
| Posted: 20 Jan 2009 10:03 PM CST "Recession? What recession?" a man might say, before adding his signature to a cheque for $64,000 destined for Angelis Labor, a company that offers the world's most expensive turntable. With magnetic levitation running this thing, absolutely zero friction or noise is created. Indeed, the Gabriel turntable is a Ferrari of the turntable world. Actually, maybe it's more of a Formula 1 car. |
| Posted: 20 Jan 2009 05:57 PM CST Darker house music isn't exactly in abundance these days, what with the deeper tribal instincts of progressive house having been taken over by electro basslines, and real instruments and worldly influences having landed joyfully in techno. 'Darkroom' by Jerome Sydenham however, arrives on dancefloors like a thunderous cloud of doom from Transylvania. |
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