04 April 2009

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Beatport Pool Party: Photo gallery

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:37 PM PDT

Following our lovely photo feature, photographer Kristen Tyler has uploaded a Beatport Pool Party photo gallery so you can see all the shots she took over the four WMC days. Our favourite one has to be this snap of Steve Angello standing on top of the decks at the end of the Swedish House Mafia's set. He's looking at the sound guy, pleading for him to turn the sound back on for one last tune, but it never happened. Check out the photo gallery here.

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Loopmasters launch ‘The Production Surgery’

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:12 PM PDT

Leading sample pack company Loopmasters have just started a new group on Facebook titled ‘The Production Surgery’. This group is for music producers of all genres, shapes and sizes and is set up specifically to provide the latest news and industry gossip from the world of music production.

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Pete Tong diary: In freezing Calgary

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:27 PM PDT

On his last stop before Miami, Pete visits its polar opposite in terms of temperature -- freezing cold Calgary, Alberta, where he ponders the reality of touring as a DJ and its fleeting and superficial forays into the local culture.

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Video interview: Kaskade

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 11:05 AM PDT

Fashion label Armani Exchange decided to muscle in on WMC this year, and produced a few video interviews with some of the biggest names in dance music. Here in this interview, Kaskade talks about the importance of WMC and about his new mix compilation 'The Grand', which is a "quick musical snapshot of what I'm doing in nightclubs", with 10 of the tracks featured on the mix having been written or remixed by Kaskade himself. Listen to a preview of 'The Grand' in the player after the jump.

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Video: Helge Kuhl ‘Autumnbomb’

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 09:01 AM PDT

Respected Cologne-based techno label Traum last week launched a brand new label called Paintwork, aimed at portraying the more poppy side of techno. Here is the video for their first release Helge Kuhl 'Autumnbomb', which was filmed over four days at 4am each morning in Cologne.

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