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| Video: Above & Beyond touring America Posted: 19 Feb 2009 07:18 PM PST Trance trio Above & Beyond are currently travelling across North America in a tour bus, and are keeping a video diary as part for their ongoing Above & Beyond TV show. In this episode, Jono, Tony and Paavo cruise down the West Coast of the US and visit clubs in Newport Beach, Sacramento and Las Vegas, as well as go shopping in LA. It's like a trance soap opera. Watch this video on Beatportal |
| Vive la France: Josh Wink in Paris Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:49 PM PST In this next installment of Josh Wink's European tour diary, we find him making the quick jump from Belgium to Paris where he hooks up with friends D'Julz, Paul Ritch and DJ Yellow and enjoys a few of the finer things in life. He muses on the dangers of Parisian dog poo, the joy of washing machines and American conveniences, all in front of the backdrop of good food and good friends in the City of Lights. |
| Secret collective of house artists form free music label Posted: 19 Feb 2009 11:04 AM PST A secret "collective of artists from prolific backgrounds" have formed a new house music label called Little Walter Records, and are offering releases from anonymous artists for free for the first 200 downloads. The raw house music tracks are solely available from their blog spot, and are in their own words, "No ego...no profile...no nonsense. Just the primitive roots of dance music." |
| Sasha, Charlie May and John ‘Quivver’ Graham to form band? Posted: 19 Feb 2009 08:50 AM PST Both Sasha and John 'Quivver' Graham have always had a penchant for electric guitars, but now rumours are circulating that the two British DJs are taking their dreams of rock stardom one step further by forming a band. Along with Sasha's studio partner Charlie May, the trio are allegedly planning to record music, and also do live performances together as a band on stages across the world. |
| Posted: 19 Feb 2009 07:45 AM PST Beneath his notorious, expletive-filled bravado – more befitting of the muthafuckin’ streetz of CPT than his celebrated hometown of Detroit – we at Beatport have been privileged enough to see a softer side to Omar S. How could we have anything bad to say about the most hyped member of Motor City’s already über-hyped third generation when he celebrates Beatport’s 5th birthday by giving us his entire oeuvre to date on an exclusive basis?! |
| Video: Make techno on your iPhone Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:02 PM PST This week came more proof that the iPhone's music making capabilities are only going to get better with time. Forthcoming to the iPhone's App Store is a virtual techno studio that features very accurate emulations of three of the genre's most important machines: Roland's TB-303, TR-909 and TR-808 boxes. And as these three videos show, the user interface of 'Technobox' is very useful for laying down patterns quickly. Watch this video on Beatportal |
| Video: Vector Lovers ‘Ping Pong’ Posted: 18 Feb 2009 02:33 PM PST Here's the video for Vector Lovers 'Ping Pong', a warm melodic techno number on Soma Recordings that was released last September. The video is rather nostalgic, finding inspiration in old arcade games from the 1980s and it has visuals similar to one of the famous sci-fi films from that era, Tron. Martin Wheeler's fondness for his childhood, is a theme that was also prevalent on his last album 'Afterglow', as its cover depicted Wheeler standing in the middle of a field with a group of his friends as a young boy. Watch this video on Beatportal |
| After 9 hours of techno, we meet Berghain’s Ben Klock Posted: 17 Feb 2009 01:44 PM PST Without question, the biggest story in techno over the past 12 months has centered around Berlin's Berghain club and its all-powerful cast of resident DJs. Ben Klock and his sometime partner in crime Marcel Dettmann have found themselves cast as messiah figures in some circles, liberating techno from the bleep-ridden stranglehold that came to be known (accurately or not) as 'minimal'. On the verge of dropping his debut solo album 'One' that promises much, much more than a stumble across the dancefloor, we felt it was high time to try and gain an insight into one of the new heroes of the scene. Beatportal's Polly Lavin sat down with Ben Klock on a Sunday afternoon in a still-buzzing Berghain, to talk nine-hour sets, debut albums and the curious tale of the Berghain ballet. |
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