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| Great Stuff celebrates 5 years Posted: 06 Mar 2009 02:47 AM PST Munich-based imprint Great Stuff is currently celebrating its fifth anniversary with a world tour and a compilation of new remixes of some of the label's biggest hits. Founding producer Tomcraft launched Great Stuff back in 2003, and it quickly became one of the leading labels for electro house with genre defining releases like Coburn's 'We Interrupt This Program', The Egg's 'Walking Away' and Mason's 'Exceeder'. "Though it was never about only that one sound for GSR," said a spokesperson for the label. "The musical direction has always been clear: peaktime club tunes from any genre – be it house, electro or techno, from minimal to maximal. It was always about the premier league of tasteful club anthems, the future classics with that extra melody or vocal rather than just about pure DJ tools." |
| Posted: 05 Mar 2009 06:33 PM PST Rising through the ranks of the liquid drum & bass circuit comes the talented Lenzman straight out of the Netherlands. Having had a string of releases of smooth labels such as Fokuz, Spearhead and Integral, the Dutch wonder kid is now making a foray onto DJ Friction’s Brighton-based SGN imprint. |
| The Beatport 20 radio show: Episode 19 Posted: 05 Mar 2009 03:00 PM PST The Beatport 20 radio show brings together the top selling releases on Beatport.com from the previous week along with an upfront selection, chosen painstakingly by Beatport's team of electronic music experts. This episode highlights tracks from Ian Pooley, Popnoname, Martin Solveig, Miles Dyson, Alex Kenji and plenty more. Click through to see the tracklist for this week's episode. |
| Daft Punk to score the new Tron Posted: 05 Mar 2009 01:21 PM PST French dance duo Daft Punk have reportedly been signed up to write the score for Disney's forthcoming Tron 2.0 movie, according to Upcoming Film Scores blog. The film is the sequel to the 1982 classic which was scored the first time around by the legendary Moog exponent Wendy Carlos. Bangalter and de Homem-Christo have had previous involvement in a number of films although Tron 2.0 will be their first official full feature score. |
| Beatport Burners: Episode 99 - Beatport Posted: 05 Mar 2009 11:00 AM PST Beatport Burners take the hottest new releases out there and wrap them up in a nice little weekly podcast, painstakingly handpicked by Beatport staff. This week we're serving up a fresh mix of Matan Caspi, Komytea, John Digweed & Nick Muir, and some beats from Defected and Enormous Tunes. 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. |
| Posted: 05 Mar 2009 07:47 AM PST Something’s afoot in the murky, subdued hollows of Bristol town. The once deep bass rattlings of techno-fuelled dubstep that could be heard emanating throughout the entire city have changed their tone and now something sleeker and more ghetto is emerging. Joker and his Kapsize imprint have been an integral part in the musical development within the city, combining the urban textures of grime with the futuristic composition of the Los Angeles wonky sound. |
| Video: The six-second break that shaped the world Posted: 05 Mar 2009 02:12 AM PST In this fascinating 20 minute video, Nate Harrison narrates the history of the 'Amen Break', an obscure six-second drum sample for the b-side of a chart topping single from 1969. In the video, Nate argues that this little known break became the basis for all drum & bass and jungle, and it was sampled extensively in early hip hop. In other words, these six seconds shaped the modern music world as we know it. Watch this video on Beatportal |
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