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This Friday Beatport Live presents Club Transmediale feat. Ital + Anstam
Berlin’s Club Transmediale festival is now in full swing, and Beatport is proud to announce our collaboration with the festival in the form of a special Ustream broadcast this Friday evening featuring a live performance from Ital (100% Silk) and a DJ set from Anstam (50 Weapons). Tune in Friday, February 3 at 22:00 GMT to catch both artists on Beatport’s Ustream channel.
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Sounds/To/Sample: Progressive House Melodics 2
With WMC only a mere two months away, it’s about time you started working on the anthem that could be played up and down South Beach the last week of March. If you need a little inspiration to get tweaking synths and sequencing your tracks, Sounds To Sample has the answer! Progressive House Melodics 2, constructed from scratch by Steed, is packed with 100 loops of screaming prog synths and a low end so fat, even a Funktion One stack will struggle to keep up with it. Also included are 60 MIDI files to help get you started on your own progressions that could end up playing out day three of Ultra! Pick up the pack here and peruse the rest of our production-focused sister site Sounds To Sample here. Now fire up those DAWs and VSTs and get to work!
Track Of The Day: Dismantle - Computation
Considering that this track’s release was back in September and leaders in dubstep had their hands on it for some time before that, we may be a little late in honoring this tune. Still, this is a track that’s become a part of a revolution in the bass scene that is well worthy of reaching back to highlight. Still collecting spins while most of its peers fall into dusty bins, Dismantle’s debut with ”Computation” has become one of the highlights of N-Type’s Wheel & Deal label. Its use of new sounds and elements in bass production has exposed many of the dubstep allegiance to a new world of crowd-pleasing alternatives to garden-variety wobble.
Now in Mashbox: New tracks from Noir, Pan-Pot + more
Ready to play with music? Beatport has a brand-new selection of pre-cut music packs now available for Mashbox, the app that lets you mash-up your favorite dance music and pop songs on your iPad.
This week, we bring you a selection of house and tech house from some of the underground’s finest, with a little techno for good measure: Double 99’s “Ripgroove” (Skint), Robert Dietz’ “Pandemic” (Cadenza), Noir’s “Found Out” feat. Richard Davies (Noir Music), Martin Eyerer’s “Bells A Go” (Kling Klong), and Pan-Pot’s “Captain My Captain” (Mobilee).
To download the tracks to Mashbox, just open up the app in your iPad and go to the Marketplace, where you’ll find all the content available for the app. (If you don’t yet have Mashbox, get it at the iTunes app store here.) Our growing catalog of exclusive, pre-cut music packs includes hits from Fatboy Slim, Josh Wink, Danny Tenaglia, Guy Gerber, Tiësto vs. Diplo feat. Busta Rhymes, Funkagenda & Big Ed, and much more.
Read on to check out audio samples of the tracks.
Introducing: Zeds Dead
Zeds Dead members Hooks and DC started their journey as the instrumental hip-hop crew Mass Productions. After one album under their former title, the two eventually morphed into one of Canada’s biggest electronic music exports. Tight production and a sense for formulas that work the crowd into frenzy have turned their name into one of the most buzzed-about names on the net. And offline, when Zeds Dead struck out on their 2010 Let There Be Bass tour, they pulled massive crowds of (Zeds) Deadheads, packing feverish fans at shows all over North America.
Celebrating their latest release on Inspected Records, the Adrenaline EP has been a successful highlight of what the group does best, reaching the number one album slot on Beatport after its debut over a week ago. We bring you a special look into the guys that make Zeds Dead such a success.
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Free download: oOoOO - NoWayBack
oOoOO (Christopher Dexter Greenspan) is one of the core artists on 2011’s hotly tipped Tri Angle Records; he and the label are both known for dark, brooding electronic music that takes cues from ambient, hip-hop, dubstep and goth. (The style was known for a time as “witch house,” but we’re going to put the kibosh on that term right here and now.)
This spring, oOoOO drops a follow-up to 2010’s oOoOO EP titled Our Love Is Hurting Us, and this free download, provided by the fine folks at Stereogum, certainly grabbed our attention—it’s foreboding, haunting and hazy electro-pop at its finest. You can pick up the first single from the album, “NoWayBack feat. Butterclock,” here.
If you’re in Berlin, you can catch oOoOO performing live tonight at alongside Tri Angle’s Holy Other and Balam Acab and Planet Mu’s Kuedo; the show, a part of the Club Transmediale festival, kicks off at 21:00 at Berghain. See here for details.
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Must Hear Tracks: Week 53
In this week’s selection of our editors’ Must Hear tracks, you’ll find that we’re experimenting with the format a bit. In addition to charts for genres like tech house, progressive house, dubstep, etc., you’ll find a brand-new category, Club Tracks, to showcase the burgeoning crossover between electro house, progressive and pop; we’ve also added a chart for hard dance, and fleshed out our funk/R&B category with some classic disco. Read on to check ‘em all out.
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Artists To Watch 2012: Blondes
The New York duo Blondes have been working at their unusual fusion of live, analog house and techno with Baleraric and Krautrock overtones for a couple of years now, winning over both indie listeners and “proper” club-music types; not many other artists have remixed art-rockers Health and performed at Space Amnesia.
Next week, they release their debut album on RVNG; the record has been in heavy rotation here in Beatport’s Berlin headquarters, and promises to stay there for a while. Get a sneak preview at SPIN, where you can stream the album in full.
We caught up with the band to find out about their unusual approach; read on for the interview, and check out their Campania International Moderne chart, featuring tracks from Kassem Mosse, Bicep, Carsten Jost, and more.
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Beatport Live presents Joel Alter
Diving headfirst into a brilliant set of house and disco, from timeless classics to new material, we were honored to have Joel Alter behind the decks for last week’s Beatport Live broadcast. Introducing us to some funky, deep and elegant dance tracks on a Wednesday afternoon, he helped make “hump day” that much more bearable.
We followed up with him to bring you the post-stream wrap up; you can check out that interview below, as well as the video archive of his set. Enjoy!
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Tune in to Beatport Live with Martin Dawson
Martin Dawson steps up to the decks in our Berlin office today (Wednesday, February 1), and we’ll be streaming his set live on our uStream webcast. Dawson’s heavy-breathing house is sure to fog up the windows, so get cozy in front of your screen and don’t miss one minute of what’s in store.
The two-hour set starts at 17:00 GMT (12 PM EST / 9 AM PST), and you can catch it at at Ustream.tv/beatport, where you’ll also find archived action from artists like Joel Alter, Dirt Crew, Catz n’ Dogz, Mano Le Tough, Drop The Lime, and more.
Check out Martin Dawson’s catalog on Beatport here.
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Track Of The Day: Sines - Money Girl
Houston’s Leroy Bella has been operating behind the scenes for a couple of years, running the Formant Recordings label which introduced Xxxy, Hyetal and XI to the heads before they began to forge their own individual paths. As the artist Sines, Bella incorporates as much of the now-borderless “bass music” as do the three aforementioned artists, but he makes the sound his own by grounding it in the distinct sonics of the Deep South.
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On Rotation: Staff Picks Week 5
Here in Berlin, temperatures have dropped to -11 degrees Celsius, or around 12 degrees Fahrenheit, and they’re predicted to drop even further. What’s left to do, then, but dance yourself warm? Check out our editors’ picks this week, including new releases from Adam Marshall, Marcel Dettmann, Hessle Audio’s Joe, and more, and keep the frostbite at bay.
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Artists To Watch 2012: Amirali
The Iranian/Canadian artist Amirali is the latest addition to the Crosstown Rebels roster; Damian Lazarus chose his track “My Way” to open Get Lost 4, and on February 13 Crosstown will release Amirali’s first single, “Beautiful World,” featuring remixes from Daniel Bortz, Deniz Kurtel, and Hrdvsion. Like Art Department, Amirali represents the pop vanguard of the Crosstown roster, with his productions teetering on the edge between club track and full-on song form.
Read on to learn more about the artist and see the video for “Beautiful World,” and check out his new top 10 chart on Beatport.
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Cratedigger Essentials: Cyantific
Having traversed the drum & bass spectrum now for the past 10 years, Cyantific (aka Jon Stanley) sees his latest record, ”Infinity," released on the legendary RAM Records.
Featured on the new edition of the Dimensions series along with tracks from Wickaman & RV, June Miller and newcomer Rene LaVice, the EP is a collection of upfront, floor-filling drum & bass quality. We caught up with Jon to quiz him about his all-time favorite classics for our Cratedigger Essentials feature.
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Sounds/To/Sample: Phatjak’s Tech-House Sample Pack
Since the early ‘90s Phatjak have built a formidable reputation throughout the dance music community, climbing the Beatport charts while stacking up 150 releases between them on some of the underground’s hottest labels. And if you’re anything like us, dissecting the sound of a top-tier production duo sounds like a fantastic way to unwind after whatever nine to five you’ve got. In their infinite humility, Phatjak (Angel Stoxx and Evan Kay) have unlocked their personal vault of loops and hits for your production pleasure. Fifty kicks, 40 claps/snares, 26 hats, and 25 percussion and each folder assigned to its own EX-24 instrument will have you beat-building in seconds. Pick up the pack here, and see what’s new from our Sounds/To/Sample label here.
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