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Tune in to Beatport Live with Exploited Music

23 May, 2012 | 2.00AM

Written by: Sean Lewis
Filed under: Music News: beatport live claptone exploited joyce muniz shir khan ustream

Today (Wednesday, May 23rd) our Berlin office will be celebrating a rare Beatport Live broadcast with Exploited Music. In a special four-hour live stream, Exploited will take us on a house music journey with artists like Joyce Muniz, Shir Khan, and Claptone. Be sure not to miss a minute of the action as we begin at 17:00 GMT (12 PM EST / 9 AM PST)

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Try out Google’s awesome, fully functional Minimoog doodle

22 May, 2012 | 10.00PM

Written by: Ken Taylor
Filed under: Music News: moog

Everyone loves a Google doodle, but this one released today to celebrate the 78th birthday of departed synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog is pretty hard to top—especially for gear nerds like us. Today’s doodle is a fully functional Minimoog replete with a Record function, so you can capture all the silly noodling you’re about to do.

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Digital Soundboy Soundsystem’s Fabriclive 63 out this week

22 May, 2012 | 12.00PM

Written by: Ken Taylor
Filed under: Videos: digital soundboy, fabric, fabriclive

The never-ending wellspring that is Fabric‘s monthly mix series has yet another stunner for the days to come: Digital Soundboy Soundsystem will be helming the 63rd installment of Fabriclive, out in the coming days on Beatport.

Check out XLR8R’s Braiden podcast and download the tracks on Beatport

22 May, 2012 | 10.00AM

Written by: Ken Taylor
Filed under: Music News: braiden nina kraviz rick wade xlr8r

Rinse FM host Braiden may not have a ton of productions to his name thus far, but as a DJ, his work is in a category all its own. Well, sort of. You’re actually pretty likely to hear his name floated about the Night Slugs and Blunted Robots camps of UK youngsters taking a fresh, bass-centric approach to house and techno, but his skills as a mixer are indeed top-notch.

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On Rotation: Staff Picks Week 21

22 May, 2012 | 9.00AM

Written by: Ken Taylor
Filed under: Music News: aidan lavelle andre lodemann laurel halo mihalis safras ram records sante

Hot stuff from Mihalis Safras, Sante, Aidan Lavelle, RAM Records, and crops up 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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Bomb Alert! Pulp Disco & The Outcasts - Space Dust

22 May, 2012 | 8.00AM

Written by: Josh Glazer
Filed under: Music News: bomb alert correspondant jennifer cardini pulp disco & the outcasts

As we morn the loss of legendary diva Donna Summer, it’s hard to firmly grasp the importance she had on not just mainstream disco, but Italo-disco via her collaborations with Giorgio Moroder. The reverberations of that pair can be felt today more than ever as Italo and nu-disco permeate nearly every crevice of underground dance music. Case in point, today’s Bomb Alert, ”Space Dust,” by Pulp Disco & The Outcast.

Weekend Weapons: Quenum

22 May, 2012 | 5.00AM

Written by: Ken Taylor
Filed under: Music News: cadenza quenum weekend weapons

Geneva’s Philippe Quenum (better known simply as Quenum) clearly does not understand the concept of taking a break. The man’s career as a DJ and producer reaches all the way back to—no joke—the early ‘80s, and has since seen him release over 60 records and appear on over 20 compilations, meanwhile co-founding the powerhouse imprint Cadenza. Earlier this month, Quenum added to his esteemed discography with a glistening, emotive four-track EP (Another Day) for Serialism Records and has plans to drop a collaborative single with fellow Swiss producer Dachshund via Rebellion on June 25th. Suffice it to say, Quenum definitely knows what he’s doing, and when he’s willing to share such useful bits of knowledge, as he does in this edition of Weekend Weapons, we advise you take notes.

Track Of The Day: Jon Convex - Lied To Be Loved feat. dBridge

22 May, 2012 | 2.00AM

Written by: ChristineKakaire
Filed under: Music News: 3024 dbridge instra:mental jon convex martyn

Call me an idiot (go on, you’re allowed), but it wasn’t until hearing this track that I finally realized that dBridge, producer of pillowy downtempo drum & bass like ”Love Hotel,” and heartbreaking weepies like ”Seems Like,” is actually a gifted vocalist as well. Even after nonstop rinsing of ”So Lonely”—one of my favorite tunes of last year—it didn’t twig that the very familiar reedy voice from that and other tracks—like Martyn‘s ”These Words” and his own ”Inner Disbelief”—all stemmed from the same source. Thanks to dBridge’s Autonomic alum Jon Convex, this week I’ve not only learned something that I really ought to have realized some time ago, I’ve also gotten a new taste of the long-lost Autonomic balancing act of hard and soft.

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Enter Beatport Play’s Producer Challenge and Remix Contests

21 May, 2012 | 11.01PM

Written by: Ken Taylor
Filed under: Music News: beatport play producer challenge remix contest sounds to sample

Right now, Beatport Play is off and running with another slew of remix contests and prizes. This month, remix John Dahlback’s “Phoenix,” Hot Chip’s “Night And Day,” Oxia’s “Harmonie,” or Cedric Gervais’ “Molly” and you could come out more than just a winner. Sure there’s a whack of prizes to take home—like the iZotope Iris soft-synth, the IK Multimedia SampleTank 2, a Novation Impulse 25 controller, an Odyssey Redline DJ bag and laptop stand, and Acrylick t-shirts—but what’s even better than that? Ask Zedd, the two-time Remix Contest winner who laid the foundations for his career with his Beatport successes. Get your entries in by June 5th and you, too, could be topping Beatport’s charts in the months to come.

Beatport #1: Keane – Silenced By The Night (Alesso Remix)

21 May, 2012 | 3.00PM

Written by: Sean Lewis
Filed under: Music News: alesso beatport #1 keane refune records sebastian ingrosso

Congratulations to Alesso, as his remix of Keane‘s ”Silenced By The Night” just hit the #1 position on the Beatport Top 100!

Keane, the UK rock group known for hits like ”Somewhere Only We Know,” released their new album, Strangeland, to debut at #17 in Billboard’s top albums and at the #1 position on the album charts for the UK’s Radio1. Courtesy of Sebastian Ingrosso‘s Refune label, the remix of Keane’s “Silenced By The Night” from rising star Alesso has done some climbing of its own on Beatport’s charts, claiming more than 20 spots in half as many days. Expect this progressive anthem to infect the dancefloor if you haven’t spotted it already.

Check below for a sample of the #1 track.

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Calvin Harris releases video for “Let’s Go feat. Ne-Yo”

21 May, 2012 | 1.00PM

Written by: Ken Taylor
Filed under: Videos: calvin harris, didier drogba, kick in the mix, let's go, ne-yo, pepsi, ultra

Calvin Harris‘ ”Let’s Go feat. Ne-Yo” is the type of track that within moments of first hearing it, you know it’s gonna be huge. Nicely timed for the summer festival circuit, the bouncy electro-house tune is already making a huge impact in clubs everywhere. Now, Monsieur Harris has released the official video for the track, which you can view above.

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Free Beatport DJ community event tomorrow in LA featuring DJ Revolution, Colette, Fei-Fei, and more

21 May, 2012 | 12.00PM

Written by: Ken Taylor
Filed under: Music News: colette dj revolution dynamix fei-fei trek life

Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 22, the southern California community will gather for a night of DJing, music, and BBQ featuring Colette, DJ Revolution, Fei-Fei, and more at 631 N. Azusa Ave in Azusa, California.

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Check out Movement charts from Heidi, Carl Craig, Bok Bok, Radio Slave, KMS, Stacey Pullen, and more

21 May, 2012 | 11.00AM

Written by: Ken Taylor
Filed under: Music News: bok bok carl craig detroit heidi kms movement radioslave stacey pullen

In case you couldn’t tell, we’re pretty darn stoked about this week’s Movement Festival happening in Detroit from Saturday through Monday. To get us—and hopefully you, too—even more jazzed, we tapped some of our favorite DJs, who’ll be playing the illustrious Beatport Stage at Movement, to give us a playlist of what they’re caning these days. Peep each artist’s chart below, and then check back on Beatportal next week for a full round of post-festival coverage and interviews.

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Pick Of The Week: Amirali - In Time

21 May, 2012 | 9.00AM

Written by: Ken Taylor
Filed under: Music News: amirali crosstown rebels pick of the week

On his debut LP for Crosstown Rebels, In Time, London-based Iranian architecture student Amirali manages to apply the principles of high design and classical piano training to his tunes. This suite of dancefloor movers and laid-back headphone groovers of the deep-house variety all help to define a sound that’s entirely Amirali’s own—remarkable considering the young artist only recently began releasing music.

Bomb Alert! Alexis Raphael - Into The Light

21 May, 2012 | 5.00AM

Written by: Josh Glazer
Filed under: Music News: alexis raphael bomb alert hot creations hot natured into the light

Fans of Hot Creations (and that’s pretty much everyone nowadays) who have been treated to this slice of bumpy deep house via DJ sets by Lee Foss and Jamie Jones for almost a year can finally own this modern house masterpiece for themselves.