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Classical music with hip hop, old chap?

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: classical music music technology turnatablism

I say, this hip hop nonsense isn’t so ghastly after all. The worlds of hip hop and classical music are set to collide in the strangest of ways when scratch master DJ Yoda joins a full orchestra to scratch his way through the premiere performance of a new pioneering turntable concerto.

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Tiësto’s Middle East concert scandal

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: bahrain middle east scandal

A riot. A no show DJ. And a promoter arrested at the Saudi Arabian border after being caught fleeing with a suitcase of money. Is this a scene from a James Bond movie? No, it’s a day in the life of DJ Tiesto.

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Speaking In Code: exclusive trailer

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: club culture speaking in code video documentary

Beatportal has been given an exclusive video trailer for the forthcoming electronic music video documentary Speaking In Code. We caught up with the documentary’s producer and director Amy Grill to find out more about her pet project, which goes deep into the subculture of electronic music.

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Pete Tong: Fast Trax Show 12th July

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: dj mehdi fast trax involved events justice tv rock

On Pete Tong’s TV show this week, he plays Justice and Fedde Le Grand’s new video. Plus there’s an interview with Aussie duo TV Rock (check out their tunes in the player below).

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Armand Van Helden interview

• Written by: Terry Church
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Armand Van Helden may be a house music superstar DJ, an accomplished producer and an in-demand remixer for mega pop stars but he isn’t finished. “When I go to a wedding and I hear ‘We Are Family’ by Sister Sledge I think to myself ‘I didn’t turn that in’,” says Armand, speaking exclusively to Beatportal from his Manhattan apartment.

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Global Gathering heads to Ukraine

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: eastern europe festivals

Britain’s Global Gathering festival is heading all the way to Eastern Europe - this weekend the Ukraine will host a 30,000 capacity GG outdoor party with Sasha & John Digweed, James Zabiela and Gabriel & Dresden headlining.

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Beatport in the news, July 12th

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: gudrun gut

More Beatport release news and info from the world wide web. Today German band Gudrun Gut get a mention for their innovative second solo LP ‘I Put A Record On’.

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David Duriez interview

• Written by: Mazi Namvar
• Filed under: Music News: brique rouge david duriez freak n'chic freak n'chic

When it comes to underground dance music few names are as well respected and known the planet over as Parisian native David Duriez. His name has appeared on over 200 records as writer, producer or remixer and he’s been DJing the globe over for the last 15 years.

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Police clash with ravers in Siberia

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: police siberia

Siberian police opened fire on clubbers at an electronic music festival after clashing over noise levels. The incident occurred at the Globass festival at Shira Lake in the village of Zhemchuzhny on Monday night.

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Saeed Younan ‘Keep Me Up’

• Written by: Lewis Dene
• Filed under: Music News: saeed younan younan music

Saeed Younan and his self-run Younan Music imprint, follow up their Beatport No.1 house chart hit ‘To The Beat’, with ‘Keep Me Up’, also on his Younan Music label. 

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Beatport in the news, July 10th

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: nu jazz zeph & azeem

More cool Beatport release news and info from the net. Today Zeph & Azeem’s ‘That Type of Music’ gets a mention, available to download for free now from Beatport as a special OM Records Sonar promo.

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Central Park’s free outdoor dance party

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: hector romera steve lee

Free outdoor raves are always fun - this Saturday New York City’s Central Park will witness a free dance party organised by Electronic Music Umbrella (EMU). 

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Steve Angello remix competition

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: benchmarc records remix competition

This is your chance to remix one of the biggest house producers in the world! Steve Angelo and Benchmarc Recordings have teamed up with Beatportal to find one talented producer to remix Steve’s house hit ‘Sansation’ that was released on Distraekt Records in 2004 (listen to it in the player below).

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BBC Radio 1’s new electro show

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: bbc radio 1

Britain’s flagship youth radio station BBC Radio 1 today announced that electro DJ Kissy Sell Out has joined the station. They’ve refreshed their dance music show ‘In New DJs We Trust’, and the 22-year-old mash-up/electro DJ will jointly present the show alongside its three current hosts Misstress De Funk, Kutski and Profressor Green.

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The Chemical Brothers top the charts

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: chemical brothers

Dance band the Chemical Brothers topped the British album charts yesterday with their new release ‘We Are The Night’. The title of the duo’s sixth studio LP takes its title from a line in a 1967 poem by Canadian beat poet Bill Bissett.

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