Date: Friday, 3rd September 2010
Time: 17:22
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The Creators Project is a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media, and around the world. At a time in the history of the arts where digital technologies have revolutionized distribution,...
Berlin-based Paul Kalkbrenner’s first release, the Friedrichshain EP, was on Ellen Allien’s reputable techno label Bpitch Control in 1999. In 2004, he released his third album Self, which embodied his melodic narrative...
For release number 28, off the back of support from some of the best DJs in the business, we're delighted to welcome Roger Martinez with two original tracks that are typical of his unique sound: My World and Bsides. My World...
October Orb Album 'Metallic Spheres' Features David's 2009 jam session with ambient collective The Orb has grown into an album, Metallic Spheres, to be released via Columbia/Sony Records in October. ...
Forthcoming September 4th the british band Faithless will present their last album -The Dance- on a live show at disco Privilege Ibiza. Britains, standards of electronic music and authors of the himn Insomnia, have been unresting...
September is a funny old month...weary-eyed and bronzed white Isle refugees return, and the summer vibe and holiday spirit is already well on the way to rapidly slipping through our fingers as the festival season draws to a...
Kalim Hachem aka Kay Tek, was born and raised in Beirut City in Dec of 1985. Throughout his entire childhood music was always his biggest interest. He was always infatuated by the different world and environment that music was...
The tenth edition of the Italian festival will also host Shed, Actress, Oneohtrix Point Never and many more. Club to Club have announced the initial line up for their tenth annual event, set to take place this November in Torino,...
The Dutch club will host Ellen Allien, Keith Worthy, Gregor Tresher and many more during the conference this October. Studio 80 have revealed their full program for this year's Amsterdam Dance Event. Upping the ante from...
Timo Maas will release his first compilation in 9 years on October 18th, as the next instalment of the groundbreaking Balance series from Australia – number 17 in the series.Data Transmission got an exclusive world’s first...
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DJ mix CDs and greatest hits comps tend to be mutually exclusive for a reason. The former is generally intended as a snapshot or, more ambitiously, a portrait; the latter intends to put a single career (or scene, or moment) into...
Continuing her string of quality releases Nicole makes her debut on the fantastic Monique Musique imprint this month with her latest single Cacahuetes. On the dark techy tip, the EP contains new cuts Cacahuetes and Mi Cabeza,...
Donato Dozzy only plays deep, hypnotic techno that favors a slower tempo. (Indeed, the only time I've ever seen him DJ in person, the BPM never fell below 130.) But it's clear that the Italian producer has a deep, abiding love...
Somehow it makes sense on Warp, which has shifted over the past few years to encompass a plethora of sounds from the indie rock world. Church's best songs utilize the simple, deep grooves of a band like Menomena, a group that...
Swedish producer Anders Ilar, a veteran of Shitkatapult and Echocord, has the kind of IDM-informed, downtempo-leaning impulses that make the distance he has to travel to the parking lot somewhat smaller than that of his...
There are advantages to having dissociative identity disorder. Matthew Dear, synth pop crooner with the voice no one would ever wish on a synth pop crooner, sounds like no one else. Because he spends more energy making things...
Before Minus, before The Cube, before Richieeeeeeee!, there was music. Richie Hawtin was known in the electronic music community as one of the driving forces behind the Plus 8 imprint, but it was his work as Plastikman that...
Stretch a compilation series past its second volume and chances are you're going to run into problems. Note that I said compilations, not mixes—there, either changing up the styles and DJs (a la Fabric and DJ-Kicks), or just...
Clearly, the people at Curle like things that build. It takes till the fourth track of Curle 25, the label's rule-of-fives anniversary compilation, to get into unmistakable party mode—with the radio edit of Anthony Collins'...
You can't envy Max Richter. Too pop to be taken seriously by the classical world, too classical to break through completely to the electronic world: He's stuck making beautiful music that always ends up as wallpaper to someone....
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Youri Donatz is back to add another track to what is fast becoming a highly reputable and recognisable body of work for this young artist. Well on the way to establishing a reputation as one of the scenes go-to guys forawesome techhouse remixes and an upcoming EP on DJ PP his label Punta del Esta, this talented DJ and producer is a firm favourite on the club scene.As well as bringing his flair and style to many remixes and collaborating with a number of influential artists, his own personal collection is rapidly gaining traction. His new track is aptly named Amadeus. Probably most famous for being Mozarts middle name, Amadeus means Love of...
Taken from their successful album "Around The World", the guys from Moonbeam present their brand new single "Song For A Girl" released on Black Hole Recordings.Featuring the haunting voice from Blackfeel Wite, "Song For A Girl" is a huge synthetic vocal trancer. Those who pay close attention to the original album version will hear not only Depeche Mode influences but Moog sweeps that might as well have been played by French Moog pioneer Jean Jacques Perrey. The subtly played theme is supported by magnificent synths with an almost tornado style, swirling sound. The changes between the verses and chorus are underlined by a banging snare drum,...
Full admission: The first few times I played "Blackout" it was at 33rpm, not its intended 45. But you know what? I thought it sounded great. The confusion can be attributed to two things. First, my own stupidity. And second, Dave Huismans' sheer multiplicity of late. It's unclear whether Huismans wishes this inaugural 12-inch on his low-key Blackout imprint to be thought of as 2562, A Made Up Sound or neither; although you have to ask yourself, with the surfacing of this latest sterling release, does it actually matter? A-side "Blackout" stretches its synths out across a washboard, making for a granular, pitched-up feel that (I'm hoping)...
The influence of the "unremembered '80s" in music is considerable, and it's a force that finally seems to be invading even the insular confines of dance music. Hyetal is one of Bristol's brightest new talents, showing little regard for the goings-on around him and embellishing his productions to saturation point with vibrant colour. His first release in several months comes on the new Orca label, only the imprint's second—but they're tracks that would normally be reserved for the highest echelons of established labels. I get the same feeling from these tracks that I did from Joker's original run of singles—the sound of pure personality...
Anyone using cyclical metallic beats and ghostly vocals these days is bound to get the name Burial thrown at them. Most of the time, it's justified. But Burial wasn't the first to employ the aesthetic he popularized and he's not going to have the last word on it either, at least if producers like Svpreme Fiend have anything to say about the matter. Svpreme Fiend is a young producer out of New York snatched up by London's Local Action label, and he makes nocturnal 2-step that can't help but recall Burial. But the music here seems far more indebted to Burial's predecessors, the clean and snappy sound miles away from that producer's fog and...
TRG seems to have his finger in every pie these days, dripping with influences from dubstep, rave, UK funky and techno. Cosmin Nicolae's 2010 output has been trending progressively weirder and weirder, and it seemed like on his last release ("See Other People" for Rush Hour) that these oddball tendencies were threatening to overtake his groove. His first release for Untold's Hemlock label is his most overtly techno release yet, with the BPMs dipping below 130 and the sounds apparently inspired by Ostgut. This is still relatively new territory for Nicolae, which means he's not yet completely free from that awkward "transitional" stage. As...
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Joseph Capriati, begins to approach the world of dj-ing in 1998 at the age of 11 with the passion for house and hip-hop. From 1999 to 2004 he performs in some clubs in south Italy and plays with various international dj's growing musically and converted to the music that will totally transform himself: the techno! In 2005, begins his interest in the music production with the desire to create their own music and to play it. He began to learn the use of music-programms in a recording studio of his friend until does not buy his first sound card and midi keybord and begins to work on their own. In 2006 becomes resident DJ of the new club...
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InsomniaFm with Trancearena presents Digital Nature (resident) & Akira Kayosa (special guest) broadcast exclusively on 16 august 2010. Biography Since 2006 Akira Kayosa has steadily been building his reputation as one of the worlds fastest growing trance prodigies. Based in the UK, Akira has been pumping out quality tracks in abundance. This multi faceted producer is comfortable producing and engineering many styles of dance music from progressive to uplifting trance and tech trance. As well as being one of the hottest up and comers in the production realms, Akira has also been a DJ for over a decade, learning his trade in New Zealand...