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18 March, 2009 | 5.32AM

WMC Track: Remute ‘Ouahahaha’

Do you remember ‘filter house’?

Denis Karimani aka Remute [a] certainly does. 

The term sprung up towards the back end of the nineties to describe the mainly French sound of a crunchy analogue filter chomping on an ceaselessly repeating sampled loop. Or in other words, producers hearing ‘Homework’ and wanting some of that sweet action.

Better known as a purveyor of inhumane, messed-up minimal, Remute has been there or thereabouts for the last few years, minus the breakthrough track that would prick up the ears of an entire scene. 

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16 March, 2009 | 12.54PM

Weekend Weapons…Erol Alkan

Our Weekend Weapons feature returns after a two week spring break with a selection from the all-conquering high priest of indie dance, Erol Alkan [a].

Bursting on to the scene atop the crest of the electroclash wave that swept through the scene back in 2001, Alkan was known as the one-stop shop for everything ‘mash-up’. The most famous of Alkan’s efforts saw Kylie Minogue recreating his handiwork, performing her own ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ track on top of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ at the 2002 Brit Awards.

The spiritual home of all things electroclash (and lots more besides) was Alkan’s infamous Monday night party Trash, at The End in London, which happily married the worlds of guitars and synthesizers right up until its final night back in January 2007.

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13 March, 2009 | 3.50AM

WMC track: Fredski & Tomas Barfod ‘March On Swan Lake’

Get Physical Music [l] seem to have developed a cunning knack for outputting sun soaked anthems over the years.

The theme can be traced back to 2005 and the release of the Booka Shade [a] double header ‘Mandarine Girl’ and ‘Body Language’ (alongside M.A.N.D.Y.); a pair of tracks that practically suffocated Ibiza through their sheer ubiquity.

Think back to Samim’s summer 2007 accordion jig ‘Heater’ and Noze’s booze-addled, Miami conquering ‘You Have To Dance’ from last year, and the trend becomes abundantly clear.

Although not quite an all encompassing anthem in the vein as those above, Fredski and Tomas Barfod’s ‘March On Swan Lake’ looks like it could be shaping up to inflict hefty levels of damage upon the terraces of WMC this year.

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11 March, 2009 | 10.04AM

Innervisions offer pre-gig Ableton workshop

Dixon [a] and Henrik Schwarz [a] are set to lead a pre-event Ableton workshop as part of the upcoming Easter weekend meeting between Innervisions [l] and Secretsundaze.

Taking place at The Coronet Theatre in London on April 9th, the gig will also see the debut UK performance from A Critical Mass, the live collaboration guise of Ame [a], Dixon and Schwarz.

The quartet performed together for only the first time in October of last year, with appearances at Popkomm in Berlin and ADE in Amsterdam.

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11 March, 2009 | 2.53AM

The Telegraph does dance

Conservative British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph have printed a slightly cringe-worthy but well meaning article discussing the rise of pretentiousness within modern electronic music.

Far from taking a dim view on such an assertion however, columnist Edmund Conway concludes that after years of disparaging frowns from the mainstream towards its oft-dismissed musical cousin, dance music is now a complex and “sophisticated” beast that has as much to do with Steve Reich and Phillip Glass as it does with sweaty nightclubs.

The mainstream British press’ take on electronic music has often been derided within the electronic music community as being behind the times or hideously out of touch, casting off the genre as ‘dead’ and then gleefully singing its praises once it was perceived to be back in fashion.

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6 March, 2009 | 3.13PM

Joris Voorn gets closer to the edit

Since his 2004 breakthrough, Joris Voorn [a] has rapildy gained a footing among the highest ranking names in the field of techno. A combination of intense live shows, fluid DJ sets and acclaimed productions have marked him out as a headliner to be globally reckoned with.

Although Voorn’s original productions have been placed on the back burner for much of the last 12 months, his remixes for Kevin Saunderson, Robert Babicz and Sebo K have kept the fire of his force burning bright.

With the release of his intruging new Balance 014 mix, in which Voorn tossed 102 tracks into the sonic melting-pot, we decided to grab a chat with the Dutch producer, uncovering the method behind the edits, his thoughts on the state of the scene, and why Dubfire impersonators are muddying the market…

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3 March, 2009 | 4.40PM

Sound Advice: Tips for running a label in 2009

It would seem that, in 2009, everyone wants a piece of the pie.

The rise of the bedroom producer has led to an unprecedented number of people ditching the age-old methods of releasing records in favour of starting their own labels.

But how much does this new breed actually know of running a record label?

Beatportal’s Ryan Keeling gathered label managers Stuart Knight, Matthias Tanzmann, Dylan ‘2000 And One’ Hermelijn, and Roska in an attempt to unearth the vital components behind running a successful electronic music label in 2009. 

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25 February, 2009 | 10.42AM

WMC Track: Pascal FEOS & Heiko MSO ‘Luv’

Although still somewhere on the not-too-distant horizon, we can’t help but turn our attentions to sunnier climes of the impending Miami WMC - the year’s first major event on the dance music calendar.

As part of the lead-up to the festivities, which officially take place this year between 24th - 28th March, Beatportal will be to gazing into our crystal ‘rave’ ball and be hazarding guesses as to which tracks will be smashing up the clubs, terraces and pool parties this year.

Our first dose of hype-mongering concerns a duo that have been putting out tracks together for well over a decade and have returned with a beautifully rounded, melodic tech house number we just love to imagine hearing whilst being blanketed in UV rays. 

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21 February, 2009 | 4.58PM

The Windey Man

Justin Maxwell [Palette]

It was a cold and indistinct January morn in the Beatportal office. A guest mix John Tejada [a] put together for Mary Anne Hobbs’ sometimes excellent Radio 1 show was seeping from the speakers.

As Tejada’s mainly solid selection was nearing its conclusion, a horrendous belch of a noise was omitted from the desktop soundsystem; the audio equivalent of a bum regurgitating his mud supper, if you will. 

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16 February, 2009 | 10.05AM

Weekend Weapons…Erick Morillo

This week’s Weekend Weapons comes direct from arguably the world’s biggest house DJ, Erick Morillo [a].

Since establishing himself as a Strictly Rhythm [l] mainstay way back in the early ‘90s, Erick Morillo has gone on to become an all-encompassing, global phenomenon, reaching the point of notoriety where perhaps even your mom has heard of him. 

It was around those early days in his nascent career that Morillo was thrust to fame as a pop star: His international smash ‘I Like To Move It’ under the Reel 2 Reel [a] moniker conquered charts and mainstream clubs across the globe. Conversely, 1995 saw the release of ‘Reach’ - an underground classic that is still being dropped to this day - recorded alongside Louie Vega [a] as Lil Mo Yin Yang [a]. 

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