Music News: 5/7/09

07 May 2009

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Serge Devant speaks of his debut album ‘Wanderer’

Posted: 07 May 2009 05:07 AM PDT

Named by DJ Tiesto as one of the brightest sparks in dance music, and with a debut artist album 'Wanderer' on the way, Beatportal met trance and progressive up and comer Serge Devant to find out more about his music productions and studio style.

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Video: First shots of Kerri Chandler’s holographic performers

Posted: 06 May 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Last week we got the scoop on Kerri Chandler's plans to use holographic 3D performers in his DJ sets, with virtual projections of singers performing the exact tunes as the deep house supremo plays them. Out of the many videos that appeared on the web following the launch of his holographic show at Santo's House Party in NYC last week, this video is probably the best, although it's still impossible to tell how realistic and '3D' the holographics are from the video.

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Joey Beltram on dance music’s early years (1986 - 1990)

Posted: 06 May 2009 12:16 PM PDT

Over the next couple of months Beatportal aims to commemorate 20 years of dance music by interviewing some of the key pioneers behind the music. Here in part 1, Joey Beltram discusses his groundbreaking 1990 techno track 'Energy Flash' and retrospectively reviews 10 records that helped define the electronic music years of 1986 - 1990.

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Video: Defected at the Beatport WMC Pool Party

Posted: 06 May 2009 08:41 AM PDT

Following part 1 of Defected's Miami WMC 2009 adventures, the crew visit the Beatport Pool Party at The National Hotel to see The Martinez Brothers, ATFC, Louie Vega and Dennis Ferrer tearing it up. They also catch up with Martijn Ten Velden, who has just dropped his new mix compilation 'Defected Clubland Adventures Episode 7' (check it out in the player).

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