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Always a pleasure showcasing some good work coming out of southern California. Cold Bank gives the classic Green Velvet tune “Shake and Pop” a bit of an update. Not that it needed it but it works. Will go down nice on a proper sound system.

Green Velvet – Shake And Pop (Cold Blank [...]

Loop TV sits down with Deadmau5 to discuss all things production and technology.

The Joy Orbison hype machine still runs full steam ahead. With remixes like this we don’t see it slowing anytime soon. This time Four Tet gets the treatment. Gilles Peterson broke this on his show recently. An official release will hit shops on November 23rd via Domino Records. Cheers to [...]

Our friend BURNS has been touring the US supporting Deadmau5 in recent weeks on the “For Lack of a Better Name” tour. He was kind enough to share a couple of teasers of what is to be a an upcoming full length tour video diary. Directed by Thomas Bachellier.


Upcoming tour dates:
18 Nov – [...]

Berlin techno veteran, DJ, producer, label owner and fashion designer Ellen Allien has teamed up with Ed Banger Records to produce an exclusive remix for Uffie’s “Pop The Glock.” This one is exclusively on Beatport.com so get it while you can.
“The mix is everything. i push myself to the absolute limit, sweating, [...]

France meets France with this fantastic Phoenix remix by Boombass of Cassius fame. This can be found on the “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Remix Collection)” released back in October.

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Here is Boombass along with Busy P, Zdar and DJ Mehdi at the recent Club 75 party at Social Club, Paris.

Phoenix interview with last.fm, backstage at [...]

A lineup of dance music’s elite DJ’s and producers gathered in Los Angeles over the weekend for the “HARD Haunted Mansion” event. Justice, Basement Jaxx, A-Trak, Major Lazer, 2manydjs and Deadmau5 just to name a few. LA dance music scene documentarians Glenjamn and Caesar Sebastian were there to document all of the action. [...]

Jointly designed by Ableton and Novation, Launchpad places Ableton Live at your fingertips. With a multi-color 64-button grid, Launchpad is built for triggering and manipulating clips in Live. Launchpad’s buttons can be used to sketch out beats as well as be assigned to other functions in Live. Launchpad ships with a dedicated [...]

The video for “My Turn” off of the new Basement Jaxx record “Scars” has just been released. Directed by Tomek Ducki and featuring Dev “Lightspeed Champion” Hynes and a bunch of dancing bears. The single will be released on Dec 14th.

“Dirtee Cash” is the latest from Dizzee Rascal’s fourth studio album “Tongue N’ Cheek” which was released in September. The track samples the Stevie V ’s 1990 tune of the same name.

The latest installment of “I Love Techno” proved to be another monster. Lots of exclusive CD-R’s being traded. 35,000 danced for thirteen hours in Ghent, Belgium fueled by sets by Boys Noize, The Subs, Birdy Nam Nam, Deadmau5, Vitalic, Crookers, Dave Clarke, Tocadisco and The Bloody Beetroots. A standout was the opener for [...]

A short film capturing the return of Ben Watt’s Buzzin’ Fly Records to London’s iconic basement venue, Plastic People, in the summer of 2009.

Adam Shore interviews Riton for Scion A/V. He discusses being inspired by raves as a kid, DJing, production, giving up on remixing others and collaborating with Soulwax.

Parklife travels nationally to 5 capital cities across Australia to a combined crowd of over 100,000 festival goers and has become the iconic festival to kick off the summer festival season. Parklife creators Fuzzy followed Busy P around with a camera at the Sydney event as he prepared for his set, ventured out into [...]

“MUSICVISION PHOENIX” showcases twenty tracks that changed the lives of Thomas Mars, Deck d’Arcy, Laurent Brancowitz and Christian Mazzalai, otherwise known as Phoenix. Film by Guillaume Delaperriere.


MUSICVISION PHOENIX PLAYLIST
01-Blue monday people / Curtis Mayfield
02-Can’t let go / Evie Sands
03-Sell your love / Iggy pop & James Williamson
04-Flash forward / Serge Gainsbourg
05-I’m glad you’re mine [...]

Flashback time. Circa 1999/2000 From Paris to London. Zdar, Boombass, Jocelyn Brown and friends in the studio. So many familiar faces. A great time in house music history.

German DJ and producer Malente, is responsible for a fun club record out now on Fool’s Gold Records. “I like It” is a minimal disco inspired tune built around a very familiar vocal sample. This proves that you shouldn’t always take music (especially dance music) so seriously. Cheeky indeed. Remixes come [...]

Getting excited yet, gamers??? New TV spot for “DJ Hero” featuring Daft Punk.

As promised, here is the second version of “aNYway” by Surface To Air. Enjoy.

New video from jam conesuer, sometimes DJ and international playboy, Calvin Harris. “Flashback” is the third single off of the “Ready For The Weekend” album. Due November 2nd with remixes from David Guetta, Eric Prydz and Goldie.