Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia—one half of the Grammy Award winning and four-time nominated electronic music duo Deep Dish kicked off of the Dubfire GU31 Taipei World Tour at Dragonfly Night Club in Niagara Falls, Canada on Wednesday, April 4th. With 34 dates already confirmed in the U.S and Canada, Dubfire will then tour Mexico, South America, the Far East and finally Europe through the summer of 2007. The North American tour supports the April 10th physical release of Dubfire’s solo mix CD debut, Taipei. Available now in digital format, Taipei launched to number one on the iTunes top dance music albums chart on its first day of release.
The North American leg of the tour will take Dubfire through some of the U.S. and Canada’s most diverse markets - both large and small. While Dubfire will be hitting large markets including Toronto, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Vancouver; he’ll also be visiting his fans in places such as Niagara Falls, Hartford, Albuquerque, Columbus, Indianapolis, Providence and Kelowna, Canada. Overseas tour dates to be announced shortly.
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This month the Toolroom Knights tour touches down in Leeds at Mission. Who are the knights and what’s it all about !!!
Over the past few years, Mark Knight has forged himself a reputation as one of the foremost house producers on the planet – a true ‘leader of the new skool’ - prolific both in the quantity and quality of his releases. A string of consistently hot productions and skilfully written remixes has catapulted Mark to the top of the dance charts, earned him a nomination as “Artist of the Year” at last years House Music Awards, and has made him a firm favourite with a cross section of the house community; everyone from Deep Dish to Pete Tong, Sander Kleinenberg to Roger Sanchez has supported his productions.
Regarded as one of the hardest working DJ’s in the industry (42 countries in 12 months and a staggering 20 gigs in 1 month!), Mark’s technical ability is second to none, and his DJ style totally reflective of his attitude to production; rather than finding one style and sticking to it Mark likes to keep his sets as varied as possible, playing right across the board, from electro to tribal and everything in between. We caught up with Mark to see how Miami went and what tracks he thinks are going to destroy a dancefloor near you……..
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With Creamfields already getting off to a flying start having launched this years event with one of their strongest line ups to date, we are pleased to announce more to the line up. Grammy nominees and the Pharrell Williams of punk-funk LCD Soundsystem will be rocking up to perform live on the Main Stage alongside the likes of Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada, Kelis & Mark Ronson. Joining him will be David Guetta and Justice Live, a festival debut from the frenchmen alongside South America’s superstar DJ Hernan Cattaneo and hip hop turntablist DJ Yoda.
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Leeds in 2007 is a vibrant place to be. For a couple of years now it’s been the musical hotbed of the North, and now Stateless emerge to push the city’s sound in a new direction. Ethereal melodies, intricate, uncompromising beats and vocals that haunt and uplift in the space of a breath combine to make the Stateless sound. Couple this with the fact that they have recently signed to very cool Berlin label !K7, and the future’s looking very bright for Stateless…
Leeds’s Stateless, beats’n’piano-based architects of scratch’n’swoon electro-song-hop are proud new signings of !K7, the Berlin-based electronica label. First up comes the limited edition 7 inch of ‘Exit’ which unfurls on a velveteen cushion of string samples and loose beats all underpinning Chris’s fuzzed up languid vocals…Perfectly setting out the Stateless stall.
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Renaissance celebrate their 15th Anniversary with an original boutique festival – Wild in the Country. Set against the backdrop of Hertfordshire’s Knebworth House. Three main areas will host some of the biggest names in electronic music, who are all ready to say a big ‘happy birthday’ to Renaissance by spinning their finest tunes creating their very own bespoke summer experience.
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On June 26, electronic music pioneers Spooky (aka Charlie May and Duncan Forbes) return with their third studio album, the double-disc masterpiece Open. Featuring the lush vocals of Julie Daske and the amazing Celestine Gordon – Open is a perfectly produced one-two punch of electronic soul and chill-out music released just in time for the summer.
On a historical level, Spooky are one of the most famous and important production outfits of the mid-1990’s electronic music scene. Much like other top acts from the golden era - including Orbital and Underworld - Spooky always created music that went beyond a 4/4 simple beat and landed in a realm of beautiful song structures and soundscapes.
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She is Robyn. The most killingest pop star on the planet. A pint-sized atom bomb dosed to the tits on electric and dispensing wisdom in three-minute modernist pop bulletins on the post-adolescent condition.
‘Robyn’ is also a collection of ultra-concise pop moments – that rarest of things, a classic pop album. It’s a sad-eyed, super-strong battery of nuclear-powered pop. It’s the best weapon she’s got.
Discovered at the age of 13, Robyn was immediately signed to BMG who put out her debut album, a collection of R&B-influenced pop on which she collaborated with future Britney-hitwrangler Max Martin, in 1995. The release of her sweet, soulful single ‘Show Me Love’ cemented Robyn as an international pop star and saw her break into the UK top 10 and sell millions of albums across the world.
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Dominic has been Djing for over 20 years now and has seen many changes in London’s club scene.
He started in 1983 playing with a travelling road show but it was after his 1st trip to Ibiza in 1987 that really changed his life forever.
On his return to the UK, he started promoting a club called Zigi’s in south London and his resident DJ every Sunday was Carl Cox. This was at the birth of the Acid house rave scene and Djing along side Mr Cox each week, gave Dominic the DJ education he needed to break into the circuit properly. “”Carl taught me what I know today” he says.
Today he can be found playing Minimal electro tech around many of the best bars and clubs in Shoreditch as well as currently working hard on his latest TEACHMIX project, soon to be available online www.teachmix.co.uk. This product will self teach almost anyone how to DJ on any format! And has the full back from Carl Cox himself. We caught up with Dominic to find out a bit more about Teachmix and what he has been up to…….
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To celebrate the launch of his brand new digital label Machine Func Records In demand UK house and techno producer and live act Saytek presents the official launch party at one of London’s most avin’ it midweek sessions Players @ AKA Bar in Central London. Where he will be performing an exclusive improvised live set with Ableton and his various hardware toys (no staring at a laptop screen here!). Also playing on the night is the amazing resident Johnny Rock.
Launching in April with Saytek’s excellent ‘Times Change EP’ which features three tracks all jammed ‘live’ using Ableton Live that is already drawing massive support from the likes of Laurent Garnier, David Duriez, 10 SUI and No Disko’s Zak Frost Machine Func Records will act as an output for this highly talented and unique artist.
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Back for its 7th year, Diesel-U-Music launches its 2007 international search for finding the best unsigned talent across the globe. The first international new music contest in the world, Diesel-U-Music has pioneered a proven formula in discovering and supporting some of the best breaking artists in music today. No matter where the artist lives be it in Dublin or Dubai, they will all have the same chance and opportunity win this truly global and international competition. To enter the competition, applicants should visit the official website, http://www.diesel-u-music.com, which launches on 2nd April and closes on 15th May.
During the six week entry period, online applicants from every corner of the globe will be accepted on the official website. Musicians from around the world should upload their music, biographies and photos for the delectation of our esteemed judging partners, who are made up of some of the most influential bods of the music media and record industry. Last year, DUM received over 8,000 entries and word continues to spread!
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You can never accuse Coburn of preaching the obvious as they continue to confound expectations with every release. Who could have predicted they would turn out zeitgeisty electro-tinged monster that samples The Temptations classic: Pappa was a roiling stone.? It is as unexpected as it is inspired. Does it work? Hell yeah and then some!
Galloping out of the speakers on a velvet-cosh of a bassline, the silky smooth Motown vocal harmonies sit perfectly in the riff heavy production. Cutting-edge edits and dirty house beats seduce the listener into a sparkling tripped-out breakdown, before Coburn deliver an unrivalled sonic payload that will rock any party.
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EMI has become the first major record label to ditch digital rights management and start selling music online in CD quality and without copy protection.
In a deal struck with Apple’s iTunes Music Store, announced in London this lunchtime - at a press conference which included a performance from The Good, The Bad & The Queen - EMI said it is making available “superior quality audio” across its entire digital catalogue.
The DRM-free tracks would be available first through iTunes but will subsequently be rolled out across other retail services.
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