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Precisely two years after ?Doppelleben? Justus Köhncke delivers his third a
2007-12-18 11:34:00 The 10 Tracks on “Safe and Sound” came together over the past 24 months, mostly while touring the planet both as a live act and as a DJ. “Safe and Sound” resonates the screams of today’s dancefloor with Justus? wisdom of dance music’s long and wondrous history in a most enigmatic way. Right from the ... More About: Years , Third , Reci , Precise
Global Underground releases ?Digitalized 2?
2007-12-18 10:49:00 Gui Boratto, Trick & Kubic and Mashtronic make the cut on the latest volume of Global Underground ’s digital comp “Digitized 02″ out this month. The fifteen-tracker also includes new cuts from GU studio players Pako and Frederik, Roland Klinkenberg and Eelke Kleijn as well as tracks from Kompakt’s Maxime Dangles, Cream resident Gareth Emery and German ... More About: Labels , Artists , Global Underground
Ian Van Boorn is launching ?154 Records? a nu-skool progressive sound label
2007-12-17 11:44:00 New label 154 Records launches on 10th December with a 4 track EP entitled ?History?. The EP showcases the nu skool progressive sound that label founder Ian Van Boorn states will set it apart from other labels. With a full promo campaign underway, the ?History? EP is attracting serious tastemaker attention as 154 Records prepares ... More About: Progressive , Labels , Sound , Label
Wavosaur free Audio Editor with VST support
2007-12-15 11:19:00 Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce ... More About: Software , Technology , Audio , Free , Support
Junkie XL announces details for new studio album ?Booming Back At You? set
2007-12-14 11:10:00 With the arrival of his fifth proper studio album, Dutch-born musician, producer and remixer JUNKIE XLBooming Back At You (Tom Holkenborg) has crafted a disc that not only builds on his beloved back catalog but also builds a bridge with today?s vibrant new school of dance-rock music. Due out March 11, 2008, ... More About: Labels , Artists , Studio , Album
An Interview with DJ/Producer Umek
2007-12-08 12:28:00 Uros Umek is internationally acclaimed deejay and music producer from Slovenia, seducing the masses with his own music blend for more than a decade. Always on the look for new sounds and determined to challenge every existing cliché in music industry, he managed to define his own vision of vanguard techno. Sure, this would not ... More About: Artists , Interview , Producer
Miss Kittin set to release her second solo album ?BatBox? on her own Nobody
2007-12-08 11:51:00 Miss Kittin is set to release her 2nd solo album ?BatBox? in January ?08 and its first single ?Kittin Is High? in November ?07 on her label ?Nobody?s Bizzness?. More About: Miss , Solo , Release , Album , Miss Kittin
Berlin-based duo M.A.N.D.Y. mix the latest Fabric compilation ?Fabric 38?
2007-12-07 13:43:00 It?s not often that two people discover a friendship as special as the Berlin -based creative duo M.A.N.D.Y. (Patrick Bodem and Philipp Jung). Two kindred souls drawn to one another at a young age, throughout their many harmonious years of acquaintance they?ve shared complementary callings in life. The first call rang when Patrick?s family moved from ... More About: Artists , Clubbing , Compilation , Fabric
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts release their debut album ?Face A L?Est? on M
2007-12-06 19:22:00 Classically trained as a percussionist, Montreal’s Guillaume Coutu Dumont does a predictably good job with his beat programming on this full length for Mutek-related imprint Musique Risquee. More About: Labels , Artists , Release , Face , Album
To celebrate the worldwide carnival Munich-based Great Stuff Recordings wil
2007-12-06 12:20:00 Munich electro house imprint Great Stuff looks to Rio for inspiration on its latest label compilation. “Great Carnival Stuff” is due out in early 2008. More About: Labels , Artists , Celebrate
Teens are turning bicycles into rolling outdoor sound systems.
2007-12-05 22:41:00 A new biker gang is roaming the streets of Richmond Hill, Queens. This crew of mostly teenagers can be seen riding along 103rd Avenue just west of the Van Wyck Expressway. The bikes roar, but the booming sound has nothing to do with engines ? because there are no engines. They are ordinary bicycles, ... More About: Teens , Sound , Bicycles , Systems , Outdoor
Sunburn Goa 2007 : Asia?s Premier Dance Festival
2007-12-05 13:32:00 The bluest sky on a winter’s day… the warmth of a soulful sun caresses you. Strolling on a golden beach, you grasp the sand between your toes? It is a perfect place called Goa, to celebrate the year’s end with your friends, and the biggest DJs to have ever played in India. Gear yourself for ... More About: Asia , Dance , Artists , Festival , Remi
Pako and Frederik return to GUMUSIC with a stunning new artist album ?THE A
2007-12-05 09:38:00 As winter draws in, let Pako & Frederick warm you with their sublime and elegantly crafted new record ? The Alert. More About: Artist , Labels , Artists , Stunning , Return
Goldfrapp announce the release for their fourth album ?Seventh Tree? throug
2007-12-04 18:46:00 Goldfrapp have made a return to the dreamy, understated sound of their Mercury-nominated debut with the forthcoming studio album, Seventh Tree . More About: Labels , Artists , Release , Album
Live trance act System 7 team up with Son Kite, Jam El Mar and Eat Static o
2007-12-04 14:46:00 System 7 is the dancefloor project of Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy. Their style hovers between trance, techno and progressive house - with a unique spacey character that is deeply psychedelic without being typical psy-trance - and the added element of Steve’s highly specialised techno guitar. More About: System , Trance , Labels , Artists , Team
An Interview with DJ/Producer Valentino Kanzyani
2007-11-27 10:49:00 It could well be said that alongside fellow countrymen Laibach and Umek, Valentin o Kanzyani is one of Slovenias biggest musical exports. As well as spinning techno and house on three decks across the world to huge crowds and acclaim he has released a barrage of dancefloor anthems for labels such as Primevil, Yoshi Toshi, Intec, ... More About: Interview , Producer
Jazzmutant Lemur takes centre stage with Björk 2007-2008 World Tour
2007-11-24 11:23:00 The award-winning and revolutionary Lemur control surfaces have been wowing crowds around the world on their highest profile outing yet. No one knows more about innovative performance than Björk, so it is perhaps inevitable that she is the first high profile artist to embrace the power and performance capabilities of the groundbreaking Jazzmutant Lemur for ... More About: World , Tour , Stage , Centre , World Tour
Sven Vath releases ?The Sound Of The Eighth Season?, another monster on the
2007-11-23 20:17:00 “The Sound of the Eighth Season ” is not a mix compilation like all others. Even the fact that this series of Mix-albums is facing its eighth edition now does not show many parallels to other (Techno) compilations. More About: Labels , Artists , Monster
Luke Solomon to release album ?The Difference Engine? on Rekids
2007-11-22 16:23:00 When Luke Solomon’s name is mentioned, it’s quite often in reference to his band, Freaks, Classic - the pioneering record label he co-founded with Derrick Carter, or his legendary DJ performances. Get ready for that to all change, Luke has delivered one of the most interesting, complex and diverse pieces of electronic music for a ... More About: Engine , Release , Album , Difference
JazzMutant release ?Lemur? a multitouch surface controller for Audio and Me
2007-11-22 11:02:00 JazzMutant’s Lemur is an innovative input device to control computer real-time applications. It combines a distinctive industrial design, a brilliant modular graphic interface concept, and a unique and patented touchscreen technology that can track multiple fingers simultaneously. More About: Hardware , Software , Audio , Gadgets , Equipment
Berlin label Shitkatapult celebrates their 10th birthday with a compilation
2007-11-21 21:23:00 Like a good wine, any great label takes time to mature, stewing and brewing away in ancient barrels. For its 10th anniversary, Berlin ’s favourite swinging and swaying Shitkatapult risks an almost too transparent drop too many from the cup of festive reflection. The drunken cheer spawned the simplest of plans: to dust off the good old ... More About: Labels , Artists , Birthday , Label
Moby will release his sixth studio album ?Last Night? on 10th march 2008
2007-11-20 14:58:00 Moby will release his sixth studio album “Last Night ” on 10th march 2008. The album was recorded in moby’s home studio in Manhattan N.Y. and features a number of guest vocalists and includes the original 70’s MC Grandmaster Caz one of the writers of rappers delight, Sylvia from Kudu, the UK’s MC Aynzli and the ... More About: Artists , Moby , Studio , Release
Caspa & Rusko mix the latest Fabric Live release ?FABRICLIVE 37: CASPA & RU
2007-11-20 09:07:00 Many turn the last month of the year into a merciless chasm-filling throng of merriment and shiny cheer; and we are no different. Although we?re not ones to embrace the commercial surface; we draw our happiness from below. And we mean way down low, propelled by a constant, almost omnipresent sub bass, mirth drowned deep ... More About: Labels , Artists , Live , Release , Fabric
?Park It In The Shade? is Sasha?s second installment to three recently fini
2007-11-19 14:31:00 ?Park It In The Shade? is Sasha at his club-devastating best. It is a conscious testament to his versatility. Markedly different in style and sound to ?Coma,? it?s a further reflection of the diversity that informs both his DJing and studio output. Once again we see the track co-produced with his renowned collective ... More About: Recently
Beatport and Native Instruments unveil Sync DJ Player
2007-11-19 13:58:00 Beatport SYNC is a powerful audio player with basic DJ functions developed by Beatport and Native Instruments . Based on the award-winning TRAKTOR 3 technology, this free software for Mac and PC lets you mix tracks like a DJ using the two virtual decks, a crossfader and auto beat sync function. Beatport SYNC offers powerful track ... More About: Software , Downloads , Player , Native Instruments
Sébastien Léger releases ?Planets? on his own label Mistakes Music
2007-11-16 23:41:00 In November Sébastien Léger is going to showcase what his label Mistakes Music is all about. He?s going to do it with a digital only album consisting of 11 tracks. Each tune except “Sun” has been named after a planet in our solar system. Mistakes Music acts as an outlet for Sébastien?s own music. The label ... More About: Planets , Labels , Artists , Label
Rekids chief Radio Slave mixes up the label?s back catalogue on a compilati
2007-11-13 17:01:00 In the last eighteen months, Rekids has become one of the UK?s most respected and consistent dance labels with a string of releases ranging from Edwards own hypnotic techno to the nu-disco of Toby Tobias and electrohouse of Audiofly. The label?s also known for its hot B-sides often calling in rated remixers such as Josh ... More About: Radio , Mixes , Chief , Labels , Artists
Nic Fanciulli & Andy Chatterley AKA Skylark release debut artist album ?I-P
2007-11-13 10:41:00 Skylark is Nic Fanciulli and Andy Chatterley. The pair have been working together for almost 10 years and their credentials are impressive. Earlier this year they were nominated for a GRAMMY, under their Buick Project moniker, for their remix of Tiefschwarz?s ?Damage? collaboration with Tracy Thorn and together have released over 20 remixes and original ... More About: Artist , Labels , Artists , Release
An Interview with Producer/DJ Sultan
2007-11-10 14:41:00 Montreal, Canada has a reputation for being one of the world?s infamous party capitals. The cities French infused scene is driven by a large population of young people that enjoy partying hard until the wee hours of the morning on any given night. Vital to the development of Montreal?s modern clubbing scene is DJ / ... More About: Labels , Artists , Interview , Sultan , Producer
Introducing the new CDJ-400 deck, a flexible, affordable feature-packed per
More articles from this author:2007-11-08 19:18:00 Designed by DJs for DJs and drawing inspiration from Pioneer?s industry standard CDJ-1000 series, this latest member of the world-famous CDJ family is fully geared up to serve the next generation of digital artists. The CDJ-400 allows DJs to play their MP3 collection off CD-R/RW discs as well as music from mass storage USB devices, ... More About: Gadgets , Equipment , Feature , Flexible , Deck 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |




