Beatport Topics

Beatport 5 Year Anniversary

Beatport celebrates its fifth birthday as the industry leader of digital downloads in electronic music with a series of parties in the world’s best clubs. We will document all of the festivities here, so watch this space!

Beatport Blog

The Beatport Blog is Beatportal’s premium blog. Here you can find all the most important electronic music news, interviews and gossip written by the industry’s most influential bloggers.

Beatport Podcasts

As well as Beatport’s highly successful Beatport Burners weekly podcast, Beatport now offers four biweekly Genrecasts, based around the specific genres of House, Trance, Drum & Bass and Chill Out. The podcasts contain nothing but the hottest new releases on Beatport, keeping you up to date with what’s kicking in the clubs.

Berlin

Club World Awards

The Club World Awards honor the clubbing peaks of the previous year: The parties that caused countless missed work days; the DJs who made wall flowers into dancers, and the gear that helped them do it; the systems that impressed the pros and made the patrons hang out that much longer. And most of all the clubs themselves, which streamline the technology, the culture, the logistics and the music into perfect packages.

Nominations are selected from a pool of online submissions by the Club World editorial staff. Winners are announced at the Club World Awards ceremony each March in Miami, Florida; and are determined by an industry-expert judge’s panel (kept secret until after the envelopes are sealed).

Six new categories have been added in 2008: Best DJ Set, Best One-Off, Best Bottle Service, Best Renovation, Best Banger and Best Anthem. The winner of the People’s Choice Awards - NightStalker Award, Best DJ Set, Best Banger, Best Anthem - are selected by the club-going public via online voting.

Cocoon

Cocoon is a record label from Frankfurt run by German DJ Sven Vath, specialising in techno. Every Monday Cocoon host a club night at Amnesia in Ibiza and as official media sponsor of Cocoon Ibiza Beatportal will be uploading content throughout the summer of 2008 including interviews, videos, DJ charts and Cocoon news.

Dissonanze

Beatportal’s live blog of the Dissonanze festival in Rome, Italy.

Devil Night Tour

Crosstown Records label boss Damian Lazarus is on the 13-date North American Devil Night tour and as Beatportal is the official media partner, Lazarus will keep his fans up to date with an exclusive tour diary on Beatportal. 

Dance Anthems

DJ Gossip

The trainspotter’s guide to electronic music.

Drumcode Tour

Industry Boy joins Swedish DJs Adam Beyer and Joel Mull as they travel across North America for their Drumcode Tour. His live blog runs from October 9th - 12th.

Get Physical Tour

Record label Get Physical is touring North America with M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi. Beatportal’s Industry Boy will be blogging live from the Get Physical tour bus from May 3rd - May 10th as it travels across America. 

Guide To Synthesis

Beatportal’s ongoing Guide To Synthesis is dedicated to exploring the often complex and confusing subjects of synthesisers and sound production. Written by studio guru Francis Preve, it’s an essential stop for anyone interested in making electronic music.

Ibiza

Ibiza news, Ibiza videos, Ibiza interviews, Ibiza tracks, Ibiza club reviews - the complete Ibiza travel guide for electronic music fans

House Nation

Written by long-serving dance music journalist Lewis Dene, House Nation covers all the most important house music releases on Beatport. Soulful and disco heads are served too. 

Industry Boy Blog

Industry Boy’s blog is filled with tales of debauchery, partying, DJ anecdotes, sex and electronic music. Written by a music industry insider who wishes to remain anonymous, the blog is all true, shamelessly. 

Industry Girl Blog

Industry Girl’s diary reveals all her feelings and thoughts on working in the dance music industry. 

Jonas Tempel Blog

Beatport’s CEO Jonas Tempel blogs about Beatport, electronic music and the industry.

Miami WMC 2008

Miami WMC 2009

Movement 2008

Movement 2008: Detroit Electronic Music Festival, is a festival in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Here you will find Beatportal’s live blog from Movement 2008 including videos, interviews, DJ news and photos

Pete Tong's tour diary

Pete Tong is touring North America from October 21st through November 2nd and here exclusively on Beatportal you can find his diary updates.

Release Yourself

US house DJ Roger Sanchez’ record label Release Yourself hosts a club night every Monday at Pacha nightclub in Ibiza. Throughout the summer Beatportal will be uploading Release Yourself content including exclusive interviews, videos, competitions and upfront track IDs live and direct from Ibiza

Remix Competitions

Sasha & Digweed Tour 2008

Beatportal’s Industry Boy blogs live and direct from Sasha and John Digweed’s tour bus as they embark on a monumentous rock star tour across America.

Sonar 2008

Beatportal’s coverage and live blog of the Sonar festival in Barcelona, Spain.

South American Music Conference

Technology

The 20

The Beatport 20 radio show

Viva Tour 2008

Steve Lawler, Audiofly and Tiefschwarz embark on a mammoth bus tour of North America from October 16th - November 1st 2008. As well as keeping exclusive diaries for Beatportal, Industry Boy will join the boys on their bus to blog live from 26th - 31st October.