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Beatportal interviews trance trio Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren about their debut LP on Armada
Most trance fans will have first heard of Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren back in 2007 when Armin van Buuren opened his A State of Trance compilation with their beautiful ”Light The Skies” track. Five years on, the LA-affiliated trio of Matt Cerf, Shawn Mitiska, and Jaren Cerf have had three IDMA nominations, peaked at #3 in the Dutch dance charts, collaborated with the likes of Rank 1 and Dash Berlin, and have just released their debut artist album, Give Me A Sound, which we currently have for you exclusively through Armada Music. Here we check in with the crew to get all the gritty details.
Track Of The Day: AIMES - Step Away (Chordashian Remix)
Making their Nurvous Records debut this past Tuesday, Brooklyn-based nu-disco outift Chordashian return with another dose of dancefloor demolition on their remix of AIMES‘ ”Step Away.” They’ve already done remixes for the popular English duo X-Press 2, been featured on Ben Watt‘s Buzzin’ Fly Radio show, and played a DJ set at the 2011 Electric Zoo festival, but 2012 looks poised to be the true breakout year for Felix Feygin and Michael Bank.
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Now in Mashbox: New tracks from Claptone, Robert Dietz, Thomas Gold, Joyce Muniz + more!
It’s Friday fun time, kids! That means yet another bunch of brand-new pre-cut music packs for Mashbox, the app that lets you mash-up your favorite dance music and pop songs on your iPad.
Plenty of shades of house music pack this week’s offerings:
- Thomas Gold, Lee Cabrera - Shake It (DJ PP 2012 Terrace Mix) [Cr2 Records]
- Robert Dietz - Heavy Mental [Saved Records]
- Claptone - Good To You [Exploited]
- Joyce Muniz - Morning Love feat. Louie Austin [Exploited]
- Claptone - Cream [Exploited]
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, and preview more in the Mashbox Marketplace.
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Tune in to Beatport Live with Sam Naff
It is a joyous day for our intern imported from California, Sam Naff. Today (Friday, May 16th) we will pause briefly from our regular routine of demeaning tasks and hazing rituals to push him into his rite of passage as an official Beatport Live featured DJ. Sam will grace our stream starting at 3pm MST (5pm EST / 22:00 GMT) with his own blend of moombah, midtempo, dubstep, electro, and progressive house grooves.
Be sure check out our Ustream page, Ustream.tv/beatport, for archived sessions of Beatport Live, including recent sets from Para One, Jimmy Edgar, Scuba, DJ Dan, and more.
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Original disco diva Donna Summer dies at 63
It’s been reported today that Donna Summer, crooner of some of disco’s most famous recordings, has died at the age of 63.
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Cooly G set to release debut LP on Hyperdub
More news from the Hyperdub camp today: UK funky and house queen Cooly G is prepping the release of her first full-length, slated for July 17th.
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Track Of The Day: Sei A - Play My Mind
Glasgow-based Sei A (aka Andy Graham) has been putting out some of the fresher and more invigorating techno I’ve heard lately. Recent works on Tiga’s Turbo Recordings, Tronicsole, and Soma are further evidence of his current fine form.
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Demystifying great soundsystems with Funktion-One and Martin Audio
A tip of the hat today to our friends at Resident Advisor for this stellar article about what it means for a club or festival to produce good sound, while offering up some really simple ways to achieve it. In the piece entitled “The Esoteric Art of Great Sound,” writer Stephen Titmus taps the ultra-knowledgeable pros at Funktion-One and Martin Audio for some tips, and they spell out the basics that everyone should know about how acoustics and soundsystems work.
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Weekend Weapons: Boris Horel
The UK-by-way-of-France DJ/producer Boris Horel has managed to make a name for himself in the past few years, turning out consistently deep and rhythmic slices of tech-leaning house. And with most of his recent output appearing on the adventurous French imprint Eklo, including the Beatport exclusive Rhythm Tramp, it’s safe to say the man is nowhere near letting up. Below, Horel shares with us some of his most prized pieces of audio, and even touches on a bit of DJ philosophy along the way. Read on for his full list of Weekend Weapons.
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Download Part 2 of our 40 Essential Detroit Techno And House Tracks
On Monday we hipped you to the first part of our 40 Essential Detroit Techno And House Tracks feature. Well, today we’ve got Part 2 ready for you, and it’s just as packed full of goodness. Classics from Inner City, Plus 8, Underground Resistance, and more mix with more recent joints from Kyle Hall, Andres, and Omar S. Download all the tunes in these two separate charts, and see you next week at Movement.
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Pick Of The Week: Squarepusher - Ufabulum
After his jazzy Shobaleader One project, Tom Jenkinson returns to the fray as Squarepusher with one of his hardest-hitting albums of the last decade, and it just happens to be our Pick Of The Week here at Beatportal.
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Track Of The Day: Pitchben - Soda (Lorenz Rhode Remix)
Today’s track really couldn’t have a better-suited name. ”Soda” appeared in its original form late last year on Pitchslap, the debut artist album of German electro-funk obsessive Pitchben, and it deftly combined robotized grooves and pop hooks with a determined indie-dance stomp. Fast-forward to this week’s brand-new batch of remixes—including additional reworks from Jamie Lidell and Krazy Baldhead—and it’s Pitchben’s meeting of minds with fellow Deutschman Lorenz Rhode that is the pick of the litter. Rhode can regularly be found among the ranks of modern retro fetishists like Gomma Dance Tracks and Exploited, and it’s his knack for disco and filtered house that transforms ”Soda” into an effervescent, bubbly, five-and-a-half-minute sugar rush.
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Tune in to Beatport Live with Para One
Straight outta Paris, Para One heads to our Berlin office today (Wednesday, May 16) to work drop some ruthless electro for Beatport Live. Check us out at 17:00 GMT (12 PM EST / 9 AM PST) to see what bits Para One will bring out of the bag to have us rockin’ on a weekday.
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On Rotation: Staff Picks Week 20
New tracks from Theo Parrish and Squarepusher, and even some blissed-out indie rock feature in this week’s On Rotation segment, which compiles our expert team of merchandisers’ and editors’ favorite picks of the week.
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Skrillex, Afrojack, Benny Benassi, Moby, and tons more to play Chicago’s Spring Awakening Festival
Chicago’s place in the history books as one of the cultural and musical centers of the country should never go overlooked. But damn, does it make it easier to remember when the city presents festival lineups like the one React Presents has got planned for this year’s Spring Awakening, which hits Soldier Field on June 16th and 17th. Laidback Luke, Skrillex, Afrojack, Benny Benassi, Moby, Flux Pavilion, A-Trak, Datsik, and Dillon Francis are just a handful of the names that’ll be hitting the field that weekend. And it’s just been announced that Spring Awakening will be the first-ever festival to take place within that hallowed stadium’s confines. (Go Bears!)
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