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| The power behind live dance music Posted: 26 Jan 2009 03:48 PM CST The recent furor over the pics we posted of Justice faking their live show proved that the age-old debate about what really constitutes ‘live’ dance music is still going strong. In this special extended feature, Lee Smith talks to leading live acts Alex Smoke, Mathew Jonson, Exercise One, Sideshow and The Bays to find out where live dance music is at in 2009. |
| Is there a secret matrix behind music? Posted: 26 Jan 2009 12:27 PM CST It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: mathematicians, having discovered a secret formula behind all good music, are able to produce powerful dancefloor destroyers using only mathematical calculations. But that is how British DJ and producer Max Cooper plans to approach making music. His latest 'Harmonisch Serie' EP for Traum is named after a mathematical modelling research project that he is involved with that aims to explore the evolution of the networks of genes -- a sci-art project that combines evolutionary algorithms with music production theory. In short, a music matrix might actually exist. |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2009 05:10 AM CST Croatian born Ilija Rudman is no stranger the cosmic world of nu disco, gracing the plates of Love is War Music through to Deep Freeze. Having been pestered for countless re-edits (the new must use term for anyone into nu-disco) by the new lord of everything disco, Greg Wilson, as proclaimed by the hipsters in London after his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, Ilija drops this fresh, funk based weapon. |
| ‘Stonehenge might have been a rave site’ Posted: 25 Jan 2009 07:40 PM CST An egg head from Huddersfield University in West Yorkshire, England, has proposed that Stonehenge may have been used as a giant concert venue, where pagans would have enjoyed "repetitive trance rhythms". Professor Robert Till, an expert in acoustic and music technology and a part time DJ, spent months studying the giant stones with computer models and acoustic analysis software, and even build a life-sized replica of Stonehenge in Maryhill, WA. |
| DJ Hell: ‘Eleven’ is Gigolo’s new sound Posted: 25 Jan 2009 12:05 PM CST Apart from its penchant for transvestites, DJ Hell's International Deejay Gigolo Records is widely credited for having kick started the electrowave movement back in the late 1990s by signing Fischerspooner, David Carretta, Miss Kittin and The Hacker long before anyone else. Since then, Gigolos has clocked up a staggering 250 releases, but despite its relentless output there's rarely been any duds. In March, the label will release an unmixed double CD compilation called 'Eleven', which is being touted as the new sound of Gigolo. |
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