24 March 2009

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Pete Tong Tour Diary: Hitchiking in Dallas

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 06:27 AM PDT

There's never a dull moment if you're traveling with Pete Tong, and here in Dallas we find him suffering from a bit of car drama and having to find alternative methods to catch his flight on time. Catch up with him as he journeys deep to the heart of Texas and turns out a crowd at the Lizard Lounge.

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Radio Slave to bluetooth track at pool party

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 03:38 AM PDT

Just in case you needed more reasons to attend Beatport's fabulous pool parties in Miami this week, attendees on Saturday will receive an extra goodie from Berlin-based techno producer Radio Slave via a bluetooth broadcast. The soundsystem-destroying sonic wizard plans to give away a free track via bluetooth to anybody within range of the stage - that's basically the entire Beatport Pool Party crowd.

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Dubfire WMC DJ competition: Winner revealed

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 05:15 PM PDT

Last week, we held a DJ competition in conjunction with Dubfire and Traktor to find an aspiring DJ to play the opening set at the SCI-TEC label party in Miami on Wednesday. The competition saw around 60 entries submitted in the 12-hour window, and Dubfire listened to every single mix. After much deliberation and respins, Dubfire has chosen his warm up DJ.

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Feature: Shimon’s obsession with Audioporn

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:39 PM PDT

Undoubtedly Shimon has been part of the backbone of drum & bass, contributing a mass repertoire of hits to the UK dance music scene for over 15 years, either under his own guise or as part of RAM Trilogy. Over the years he’s been responsible for such classics as ‘Hush Hush’, ‘Quest’ and the UK chart topping collaboration with Andy C, ‘Body Rock’.

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Pete Tong tour diary: Houston

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 12:48 PM PDT

Pete Tong continues his Texan adventures and travels to the state's largest city, Houston, to do some charity work and then make some noise at Bar Rio. In this update he talks shop about gear,and also tips us off to a few of the big tunes of the night.

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WMC Weapons: Steve Angello

Posted: 23 Mar 2009 10:47 AM PDT

Miami's WMC kicks off tomorrow and we here at Beatportal are incredibly excited to be able to bring you live updates, interviews and videos from the conference all this week. Before our live blog officially commences, we decided to enlist the services of one of our favourite DJs Steve Angello in order to grab his thoughts on what records he thinks will be big at the conference. As one quarter of the Swedish House Mafia, alongside Eric Prydz, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello has built himself a reputable following of clubbers worldwide addicted to his jacking, uplifting house style. In this specially extended edition of Weekend Weapons, Steve Angello reveals 10 upfront dancefloor devastators.

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