Having recently completed upgrades to the Audiojelly Store, the team behind Europe’s leading dance music download portal have now launched a new store for independent artists across the world.
Ajtunes.com is the first dedicated download store in dance music to give independent artists the opportunity to showcase and sell their music to a global consumerbase. With one of the highest royalty rates on the internet for download sales, Ajtunes will change the landscape for unsigned artists, giving them the platform to promote their music with high profile coverage, as well as earning arguably the best income for sales of their music.
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Positiva closes 2006 with a rather special dancefloor anthem, Queen vs The Miami Project?s ?Another One Bites The Dust?. This is the only official Queen remix available, and one that?s been an international floor-filler for several months, following rigorous outings in Miami and then Ibiza.
The DJ support on this record is simply huge ? Pete Tong on Radio 1? Check. Deep Dish? Check. Erick Morillo? Check. David Guetta? Check. Sander Kleinenberg? Check? XFM boys James Hyman and Eddie Temple-Morris? Check. And that?s not all; in fact, the list of heavyweights would take up the rest of this press release, and then some.
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The third release from Tiefschwarz?s new Souvenir imprint comes from UK, London based, Producer/DJ Riton (pronounced ?Reeton? - the French ’street’ term for the name ?Henry?), 29 year old Henry Smithson.
Riton signed to label ?Grand Central? in 2000 (The first non hip-hop act to sign to the label) with release ?Communicated?. His debut long- player ?Beats Du Jour? followed in 2001 ? a downbeat electronica album, hailed by luminaries including Laurent Garnier, Trevor Jackson, Richard Dorfmeister and Ewan Pearson, and hugely supported by UK magazines NME and The Face.
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Our man EZG has done it again! Head over to iTunes and pick up your copy or update your podcastchers for episode two of the DanceFrontDoor Podcast.
Show notes and more info can be found at www.dancefrontdoor.co.uk/podcast
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Wondering what to wear for tidy’s massive NYE Weekender at Pontin’s in Blackpool? Ready to raid your cupboards, cut up your tops and sew your bottoms together? Well get your scissors in hand and your different coloured fluff lined up; here are some of our ideas for what you could come dressed as to the biggest New Year’s Eve party in the UK this year?
The tidy theme this time round is the tidy Time Machine - Enter The Fantastic Future - and we’re giving you a total free rein to come up with the most mental creations ever!
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For Underwater?s November 25th party we welcome a very special guest - legendary techno DJ and Producer from Detroit, Carl Craig, will join Emerson for the first time at The End. Pedro Winter, the man behind Ed Banger Records, and so much more, heads up the lounge for his Underwater debut also.
Carl Craig ? need we say more, his productions are untouchable, his remixes often overtake the power of the original (Theo Parrish ?Falling Up? and Delia Gonzales & Gavin Russom ?Relevee? being only two recent examples - in EVERY DJ?s box). His skills as a DJ take in the darkest, intense techno, mixed with elements of jazz and electronic music to make you move. Craig is also the man behind independent record label Planet-E, which has been going strong since 1991; hosting artists including Kevin Saunderson, Lazy Fat People, Vince Watson. Moodymann, Martin Buttrich, Recloose, Craig himself and more.
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Following the recent news that long running DJ Mag may face closure by its owners Future Publishing it has recently been disclosed that the magazine has found a backer in the shape of Dance Music directory publishers The Music Industry Manual (MiM).
MiM have now taken over at the magazine and ends a uncertain time for its staff and readers. Respected worldwide,each and every issue calls out to aspiring DJs, producers, promoters and dance music lovers with hundreds of record reviews and the latest DJing technology.
It is understood the deal was done last week following around bidding from a number of interested high profile parties.
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At just the age of 17 (!) hot new production outfit Kingpinz are producer Mike MacLennan & writer Dom Skevington. The duo met at school, where their mutual love of dance music led to the birth of various projects and at the start of 2005 Kingpinz was born. Over the past year the duo have built up an impressive discography with remixes on labels such as Tasty, Ministry Of Sound, Flawless and of course Cayenne.
Having already turned in a stunning remix of Sex Machine?s ?Friday Night? The Kingpinz return to Cayenne with their first single featuring songstress Antonia Lucas.
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You?ll know Friendly; he?s the Australian chap who?s been known for smashing up the breaks scene at clubs like Chew The Fat! And beyond. Well, following his excursions as ?Milke? Friendly (or simply Andrew to his mum) has been making inroads into other scenes and here he returns to drop his latest 12? on one of the UK?s fast rising electro house labels iO Music, sit up and take note.
His mission statement is simply ?dirty? and he mixes it up between breaks, electro house, bootlegs and oddities to create a bass heavy sweat fest.
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For ten years The Glasshouse has endured as the cult sensation of the Leeds dance underground. An incendiary after-hours event that has steadily thrived on word-of-mouth and built a reputation for eccentricity, enthusiasm, and an obsessive, consistent passion for music. Originally conceived as a Hard House and Trance night during the height of that scene, The Glasshouse expanded and evolved with the rise of House; its stellar roster of resident DJs packing out the venue with 1000-plus punters every Saturday without fail, whilst other clubs were being forced to permanently close their doors. It quickly became an unparalleled event on the club calendar that everyone knew of, but essentially knew nothing about. The Glasshouse has long stood and still stands as none other than Leeds? best-kept secret.
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Roll up Roll up! Lock up your daughters, button up those trunks, tighten your seatbelt and get ready for the for the rollercoaster ride of a lifetime as the biggest most electrifying show on Earth comes to town! Ladies and Gentlemen, friends and fiends we present to you probably and most the most definitely the most magnificent, spectacular, never to missed show on the planet The Elektrik Circus!
On Friday November 24th two worlds collide in a cataclysmic cosmic menagerie of untamed jacking electro house beats brought to you by the purveyors of the finest underground parties in the capital no other than Strictly Left & MAXIMAL. Two of the most exciting parties join in an unholy matrimony to present an eccentric eclectic Elekrik Circus of sounds selected and served up by the hottest residents and the BIGGEST names on the circuit. For our first event we present the man of the moment, the production powerhouse, it?s about to get patchy so get ready to get ya dub on?SWITCH! Our second guest is the delectable DC10 twisted sister herself the salacious DJ Rebekah.
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This one?s a biggy, I?ll tell you that for free? Every now and again a tune comes through our offices that has Team Cypher staring long fully into each others eyes with tears welling, swiftly followed by hug - o - clock and this was one such track.
Nimrod is the alternative, underground name given to one of mainstream dance music?s most prolific producers Micky Modelle and Ryan Rafferty, one of Irelands fastest rising DJ talents. Together they blend hard club beats with emotional strings and vocals, alongside edgy percussive grooves to form this unique project. But we?ll rewind a little?
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mulletover likes to keep things different, new and always moving. They?ve hosted parties in a disused Kwik Fit garage, the middle of a forest, the hills of Ibiza and under an archway in the centre of London - as well as all the clubs that count. They?ve also just completed their first season in Ibiza ? hosting every Sunday morning for We Love at Space from 8am? midday - with resident Geddes joined by guests including Ewan Pearson, Jamie Jones, Clive Henry, Audiofly, James Priestly, Riton and more.
On November 25th mulletover are hosting a ?Christmas? warehouse party (a month early) in a secret shoreditch location. Geddes ?whose recent Rekleiner releases have been picked up by Miss Kitten, Anja Schneider, Tiefschwarz et al - will be joined by Moon Harbour recordings? Daniel Stefanik ? whose deep, dubby sounds and prolific productions caught the ears of resident Geddes a while back. Darren and Spencer will also be in play.
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The breaks scene has always had a ?blokesy? edge to it, it?s got to be said so it?s so refreshing when someone like 10 Sui comes along adding her feminine charm and electronic soul to this testosterone charged world with the refreshingly funky and (quite literally) cheeky ?Bring Forth Ya Booty?
For over a decade Tracie ?10 Sui? Storey has plied her trade spinning an intelligent mix of electro, house and party tunes alongside producing, writing for some of the UK?s leading dance press as well as broadcasting on various web radio stations ensuring that over the years, she has become known as one of the world?s leading decks women in her scene.
Here she has joined forces with producer extraordinaire and up and coming DJ Mikey G AKA La Resistance, which has led to this cellulite burner of a tune.
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That?s right, you heard it here first here kids! Legendary electronic pioneer Unique 3 has just signed to Chew The Fat! With a deal that not only means you will expect to see this untouchable DJ playing out and about a hell of a lot more but also that one of the biggest tracks in the history of UK electronica ?The Theme? will see a full UK re-release early next year on Fat! Records featuring a whole host of new mixes!
Unique 3 has been cited by such pioneers of electronic music such as The chemical Brothers, Coldcut, Goldie and LFO as an inspiration. His early ?bleep house? created a starting point for house music, as we know it today. Unique 3?s groundbreaking early UK hip-hop bridged the gap from US hip-hop to a vibrant new sound that has changed music forever.
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