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Kenny Larkin returns to Movement with a new album on Planet E

23 May, 2008 | 2.57PM

After a four year album hiatus, Kenny Larkin releases ‘Keys, Strings and Tambourines’ on Carl Craig’s Planet E Communications — and Beatportal has a preview of its sound.

It’s a fitting pairing, as the two DJs and producers are credited as being a part of what’s called “the second wave” of Detroit techno, following the genre’s founding fathers.

Both Carl Craig and Kenny Larkin perform at this weekend’s Movement: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival. 

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Video: Duran Duran dig into their dance roots

14 May, 2008 | 8.46PM

During their recent US touring stint for their latest album ‘Red Carpet Massacre’, synth pop (and of course pop) stadium legends Duran Duran pulled out this cut from their vast catalog of music.

The combination ‘All She Wants Is’ — taken from their 1988 album ‘Big Thing’ — combined with a cover of 1978’s ‘Warm Leatherette’ by The Normal (Mute record label founder Daniel Miller’s early act) was a stunning departure from their normally animated selves as performers on stage while at the Wells Fargo Theatre in Denver, Colorado this week.

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Minus unveils The Cube at 10-year anniversary Contakt events

6 May, 2008 | 7.52PM

After a 10-week hiatus celebrating 10 years of Minus, the collective has unveiled a new concept in community.

Beginning with a date in Detroit during Movement 08, fans of Minus will have the chance to interact with the The Cube — a method of registering their live presence within the Minus environment — and will then have access to exclusive tracks, will be able to upload demos and will have the chance to win some quality gear, including Native Instruments’ Traktor Scratch System.

According to a conversation with Richie Hawtin, founder of the label, The Cube explores “how technology allows us as artists — and the audience — to make further human contact than would have been possible in the past.”

So what exactly is The Cube? 

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New Autechre coming March 2008

4 December, 2007 | 5.18PM

Autechre expect to release their ninth studio album coming up in March.

According to the Warp Records website, their new album with be entitled ‘Quaristice’ — but that’s the only bit of official information that we have as of yet.

The last album from Autechre was in 2005 when they released, ‘Untitled’, followed by a live tour, although they have material that’s been released since then (click on the Beatport link for full info).

For more current and future information on Autechre’s twisted brand of techno, links for Warp Records, Autechre and Autechre’s myspace page are below.

[Source: Warp Records website]

Trentemoller talks of future plans

30 November, 2007 | 4.01PM

In today’s Herald Sun, Denmark’s Trentemøller is interviewed about an appearance he’s making in Australia as part of his band’s ongoing world tour.

In the article, he talks about the album, ‘The Last Resort’, as well as where he’d like to take his next album — with hopes of having Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star involved.

Trentemoller (full name Anders Trentemøller) also talks of his current live band set-up and finally settling on a remix for Moby.

[Source: Herald Sun]

In other Trentemøller news, the artist revealed in an interview with Beatportal that he has recently worked with fellow Dane and filmmaker Lars von Trier for soundtrack production.

Von Trier is known for several films, including ‘Dancer in the Dark’ starring Björk.

Given Trentemøller’s dramatic audio flair, the duo should create a stunning work.

More details on that development will be shared on Beatportal. 

Minus goes direct to digital with USB

30 November, 2007 | 11.51AM

Minus, the label started by Richie Hawtin, releases ‘EXPANSION | contraction’ in the USB format — a first for the label.

Hawtin has been a longtime proponent of the digital format, with early involvement in the digital DJ platform Final Scratch, as well as with the digital online music store Beatport.

In addition to being released on USB in an extremely limited quantity of 30, ‘EXPANSION | contraction’ is also released in both CD and vinyl formats, although the USB contains two bonus cuts by Tractile and Ambivalent.

Full tracklisting details are disclosed after the jump. 

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Dancefloor Destroyers: November 19th

19 November, 2007 | 3.43PM

Beatportal presents the next installment of Dancefloor Destroyers, Beatportal’s favorite cuts.

Each week, we bring you a chart with the best of the best for your DJ set.

While each cut wouldn’t work in everyone’s set, there’s a cut here for all types of creative DJs.

This week, we hit dubstep and celebrate the return of Burial with ‘Archangel’, and get some ‘Funk in Your Trunk’ with Giano.

After a long-awaiting digital debut, ‘The Sun Can’t Compare’ is the perfect fit from Chicago house legend Larry Heard presents Mr. White.

Radio Slave is untouchable, and his combination with Francois K is undisputed. 

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Moby prepares new album ‘Last Night’

16 November, 2007 | 12.55PM

Via his website, Moby has announced his sixth studio album, ‘Last Night’, a dance music venture to be released March 10, 2008 in the UK (March 11 in the US).

The album involves several guest vocalists, with a heavy hand on rapping — including the Big Apple’s Grandmaster Caz (an MC and one of the writers of ‘Rapper’s Delight’ in the 1970s), MC Aynzli from the UK and the 419 Squad, based out of Nigeria. Also featured is Sylvia from New York electro punk outfit Kudu. 

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Dancefloor Destroyers: November 8th

8 November, 2007 | 1.08PM

Beatportal presents the next installment of Dancefloor Destroyers, Beatportal’s favorite cuts.

Each week, we bring you a chart with the best of the best for your DJ set.

While each cut wouldn’t work in everyone’s set, there’s a cut here for all types of creative DJs.

This week, we have a lot of fun with a new mix CD put together for Kitsuné by Jerry Bouthier, and include a snippet of ‘Boombox’.

Carl Craig’s take on Lazy Fat People’s ‘Pixel Girl’ is quite mad, and we celebrate the addition of DFA Records to Beatport with a surprise hit by Still Going. 

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Dancefloor Destroyers: October 26th

26 October, 2007 | 10.18AM

Marking the second week of charting Beatportal’s favorite tracks, we present to you Dancefloor Destroyers.

Each week, we bring you a chart with the best of the best for your DJ set. 

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