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18 July, 2007 | 8.46AM

John Digweed ‘Heaven Scent’ interview

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: bedrock bedrock records greg downey

John Digweed’s classic progressive house anthem ‘Heaven Scent’ has been re-released as a mysterious Greg Downey trance remix this week. Beatportal caught up with John Digweed to find out more the remix.

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18 July, 2007 | 6.40AM

Yamaha to unveil new instrument

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: instruments kraftwerk matthew herbert music equipment tenori-on yamaha

Yamaha are set to unveil a working prototype of their new cutting-edge musical instrument Tenori-On at a number of UK record shops this September. The unique 16x16 LED matrix MIDI controller can be loaded with samples and is a visually stunning piece of equipment.

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18 July, 2007 | 2.48AM

Tony Humphries remixes Billie Holiday

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: billie holiday blues jazz tony humphries

Legendary house producer Tony Humphries and a number of other top dance producers have resurrected one of the 20th Century’s most popular jazz vocalists, Billie Holiday, for a special tribute anthology.

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18 July, 2007 | 1.55AM

Ibiza beaches shut after oil spill

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: beach oil spill

Maritime crews in Ibiza are cleaning up three popular beaches after inspectors discovered a sunken merchant ship had leaked ten tons of fuel into the sea last week.

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18 July, 2007 | 1.01AM

Beatport in the news, July 18th

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: jay cunning

Wahoo! More cool Beatport music release news and tiddly bits from the net. Today Pheek mentions his new ‘Mandragore’ minimal tune on Kalamari and Jay Cunning bigs up his bad ass breakbeat Beatport top 10 chart.

17 July, 2007 | 2.47PM

Dude Looks Like a Lady…

Written by: Industry Girl
Filed under: Music News: industry girl

He’ll never hear the end of it. For as long as he lives. As far as we’re concerned, he’ll never live it down. He had all the warnings and we’ve all tried to help him, but he didn’t listen. And now, as I do my part to make sure his story lives on, I blog it so thousands of people will come to know Jayden’s story about his misstep. This is a true story.

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17 July, 2007 | 4.49AM

Atal Music’s upcoming releases

Written by: Lewis Dene
Filed under: Music News: atal music david gomez hanna haïs soulful house

Upcoming releases on Atal Music include Hanna Haïs’ ‘Jungo’ featuring DJ Meme and David Gomez mixes; the Afro-house affair ‘Moina Ya Mokili’ from Boddi Satva (Yoruba) & Tabu Abel; and ‘Bittersweet’ by Jay ‘Sinister’ Séalee presents Julie McKnight.

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17 July, 2007 | 2.59AM

Metamorphose - Japan’s techno festival

Written by: Terry Church
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At the end of August Japan’s cutting-edge electronic music festival Metamorphose will play host to some of the world’s biggest techno and electronic artists near Mt. Fuji. Beatportal caught up with festival organiser Mayuri Akama in Tokyo to discuss Japan’s burgeoning electronic music scene.

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17 July, 2007 | 2.05AM

‘Love Spin’ mixed by Central Avenue

Written by: Lewis Dene
Filed under: Music News: barcoda recordings central avenue

Barcoda Music will release the Central Avenue mixed ‘Love Spin’ by Andrea Carissimi and Fabio Bacchini shortly.

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17 July, 2007 | 1.40AM

Beatport in the news, July 17th

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: dj chart nu rave

More sexy and exciting Beatport release news and snippets from that big computer network thingy they call the Internet. Today punk ravers Simian Mobile Disco big up their Beatport DJ chart,

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16 July, 2007 | 7.12AM

Manchester club to give away car

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: fiat fiat punto

The owners of British club Sankeys in Manchester have come up with a genius, but admittedly expensive way of getting clubbers through their doors. They will be giving away a car this Friday at a party headlined by Felix Da Housecat.

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16 July, 2007 | 6.15AM

Malente interview

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: luscious sounds malente

If you like phat electro house, Germany’s Malente is a good producer to check out. His recent ‘This Manrox’ release was in the top 10 of Germany’s Club Chart and brings a raw breakbeat approach to electro house.

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16 July, 2007 | 4.58AM

Music downloads not covered by insurance

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: digital djing digital music insurance laptop dj

Digital DJing and iPods might be the norm, but if you lose your music download collection to computer viruses you won’t be covered by insurance, a British consumer group warned today.

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16 July, 2007 | 2.57AM

DJ Disciple ‘Turn It Around’

Written by: Lewis Dene
Filed under: Music News: dj disciple

Remixes of the DJ Disciple track ‘Turn It Around’, featuring Michelle Weeks, will be out this summer.

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16 July, 2007 | 1.39AM

Beatport in the news, July 16th

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music News: albin myers fling records secaucus junction

More cool Beatport release news and info from the world wide web. Today Luke Dzierzek’s new ‘The Identity EP’ gets a mention, as does Albin Myers ‘The Punk EP’.