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7 October, 2008 | 7.03PM

Interview with Ezekiel Honig

Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: Beatportal

If you’re into high brow electronic music composition, Mnml ssgs have a Q&A with New York’s Ezekiel Honig, a producer who takes reference from musique concrete and people like John Cage.

“I don’t consider using electronic sounds (synths, drum machines, etc.) because there is so much interesting sound in the world already, and it’s impossible to run out of material when you think of it in that way,” said Ezekiel Honig, who runs the labels Microcosm and Anticipate.

Ezekiel Honig’s ‘Scattered Practices’ album from 2006 sums up his idiosyncratic flourishes with sonic forging - check it in the player after the jump.

7 October, 2008 | 4.18PM

Girls Suckcess

Marcus Schossow [Tone Diary]

Section: Music Recommendations Topics: DJ Gossip
Written by: Ellie

Innovative Swedish trance producer, Marcus Schossow discovered his own unique sound when he created the track ‘Mr White’ last year, and his most recent production, ‘Girls Suckcess’, follows the same style.

7 October, 2008 | 1.50PM

Queens of Jungle: An interview with DJ Rap

Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: Caleb Rakes

Originally from the east end of London, DJ Rap, aka Charissa Saverio began producing drum & bass in the 1990s, and was best known for her tune ‘Spiritual Aura’ on Dee Jay Recordings.

Now residing in Los Angeles, DJ Rap runs the Propa Talent and Impropa Talent record labels and produces everything from house through to drum & bass.

Recently voted No.1 female DJ in the world by shejay.com, you can expect Rap to be playing anything from Toolroom style electro house (which she cites as being her favourite label at the moment) through to d&b.

In an interview with DJTimes in May 1999, British drum & bass pioneer Grooverider, whilst pointing towards DJ Rap, was quoted as saying, “"I’m telling you, watch out for her.” He wasn’t wrong.

Read on to check out our interview with DJ Rap.

7 October, 2008 | 12.00PM

Loopmasters unveils Chris Cowie library

Section: Music News Topics: Technology
Written by: francispreve

Carl Cox calls him “The Master of Funk Techno.”

Danny Tenaglia calls his work “pure genius.”

So naturally, it looks like Loopmasters has another hit on their hands with Chris Cowie’s Tech House and Trance samplepack.

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7 October, 2008 | 11.41AM

Joints From The Lab

MidiDropMusic [GlideSlope Music]

Section: Music Recommendations
Written by: Kerri Mason

I was interviewing Misstress Barbara back in 2001 and after a half-hour of impassioned debate she got me to admit that DJ Rolando’s ‘Jaguar’ could, in some way, be considered trance.

I was used to hearing Francois K work the hell out of it at Sunday house party Body & Soul, so this wasn’t an easy thing to consider.

7 October, 2008 | 9.35AM

Get Physical’s Heidi scores her own BBC Radio 1 show

Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: Christen Reutens

Berlin-based DJ Heidi, who recently toured North America with Get Physical’s M.A.N.D.Y., has scored her own show on Britain’s flagship youth station BBC Radio 1.

“I’m going to showcase a selection of music every month that I love, that is rocking the dancefloors that I’ve been playing at, as well as have special guests talking about music they’re into,” Heidi told Beatportal.

“I also hope to get mixes from my guests and some exciting music bits from them as well.”

7 October, 2008 | 5.13AM

Interview: Get Digital’s DJ T and Philipp from M.A.N.D.Y.

Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: Beatportal

Get Physical Music have just launched their new sub-label, Get Digital, and we have a very special interview with DJ T and Philipp from M.A.N.D.Y..

The pair talk about the impetus in starting Get Digital, the “death of vinyl”, upcoming projects, and the label’s first release, which is from from Jamie Jones and Simon Baker.

Check it all out after the jump.

7 October, 2008 | 2.44AM

Drumcode tour: Joel Mull’s DJ chart

Section: Music News Topics: Drumcode Tour
Written by: Industry Boy

On Thursday, Beatportal will be joining Adam Beyer and Joel Mull on their Drumcode Tour as the Swedish DJs hop across North America to play driving techno and chunky minimal to underground heads.

The boys will be playing at Cielo in New York, Circa in Toronto and 90 Degrees in Miami during our live blog, and we will be flying between gigs which should lead to some interesting blog posts and interview snippets.

Ahead of the tour, we asked Joel Mull to supply his top 10 tracks of the moment, which hopefully gives a clue as to the kind of music he’ll be playing during the tour.

Read on to check out Joel’s top 10 chart.

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6 October, 2008 | 10.41PM

Archipel celebrates 50th release with video series

Section: Videos
Written by: pheek

Archipel celebrates its 50th release with a new series of video podcasts.

In this first video outing, Archipel’s label owner Pheek talks about his label which is currently celebrating its 3rd year anniversary along with its 50th release.

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6 October, 2008 | 10.15PM

Carl Cox announces October North American tour

Section: Music News
Written by: gben32

British techno veteran Carl Cox is bringing his Ultimate Carl Cox tour to the USA and Canada for the whole month of October.

Check out his tour dates after the jump.

6 October, 2008 | 6.47PM

What’s Paragraph? Slam discuss new label

Section: Music News
Written by: jamiegardiner1

This week techno duo Slam announced their new label offshoot Paragraph.

Beatportal spoke to Slam and Soma Recordings boss Dave Clarke to discuss what this announcement means for the Glasgow-based label.

6 October, 2008 | 4.43PM

Pendulum loses drum and bass heads, gains US and rock fans

Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: Terry Church

Perth-based drum & bass band Pendulum may have lost some love from hardcore drum & bass heads with their recent mainstream success, but they’ve won over a whole new legion of fans from the rock side of things.

Kerrang! magazine no less, are the latest rock magazine to support the Ear Storm/Atlantic Records group by nominating Pendulum’s ‘Propane Nightmares’ as Best Single in the upcoming Kerrang! Awards.

It’s not hard to understand why head bangers can get into Pendulum’s fast and furious guitar-laced beats as it is aggressive and in-your-face music.

6 October, 2008 | 2.12PM

Ibiza’s DC10 to be shut for one year, possibly forever

Section: Music News Topics: Ibiza
Written by: Zack Rico

DC10 club in Ibiza has been fighting an uphill battle with the island’s authorities for the whole season, but last week the club’s future seemed bleak after a council meeting in Sant Josep slapped the owners with a €300,000 fine and a one year closure.

The problem is, the authorities have found DC10’s ultimate weak point (we can’t believe it took them 10 years to find it) - it only has a legal capacity of 65, which means the club has absolutely no chance of survival, unless they can somehow secure a license.

In the murky, disco-mafia-tinted world of Ibiza’s legal system that will be practically impossible.

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6 October, 2008 | 12.47PM

‘Anjunabeats Volume 6’

Above & Beyond [Anjunabeats]

Section: Music Recommendations Topics: Beatport Blog
Written by: Ellie

After playing a record breaking gig to one million people in Rio, selling out London’s Ministry of Sound, travelling across America in a bus, numerous worldwide club and festival appearances and producing an album under their OceanLab alias, you’d think Above & Beyond would want to take a break.

But instead the unstoppable trance trio have been busy compiling the sixth edition of their hugely successful ‘Anjunabeats’ compilation series.

6 October, 2008 | 12.00PM

2008 AES show gear highlights

Section: Music News Topics: Technology
Written by: francispreve

Last week, the 125th Audio Engineering Society tradeshow was held in San Francisco, California.

Unlike the twice-yearly NAMM tradeshow, which focuses on all types of music and club gear, the AES show highlights studio and recording products, so there weren’t a lot of DJ or synth toys on hand.

Instead, the focus was on plug-ins, microphones, hardware effects, monitors and the like.

While the toys on display may not be as glamorous as flashy tone generators, this gear is an equally important component of a producers arsenal.

Here are some of the announcements that caught our attention.