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The Beatport Top 10 – Indie Dance/Nu Disco

July 30, 2013 by Roman

This week its the Top 10 Indie Dance/Nu Disco tracks on Beatport. Take listen, buy some music, support the artists!

*Quick Note: We actually couldn’t find a version of the no. 9 track (a remix of the old Grandmaster Flash joint The Message) so we just skipped it and included no. 11. You can hear the skipped track here.

https://soundcloud.com/mexa-records/mk

Buy it here.

https://soundcloud.com/traknez/dirty-doering-sascha-cawa

Soundcloud Selector – The Top 10 Go Trap

July 30, 2013 by Roman

When that distinct strain of southern hip hop, Trap music, finally made its way onto the mainstream airwaves, people decided they didn’t want to let it go. Now it’s morphed into the go-to genre of the moment. So in that spirit, we looked around and found Trap remixes of the Top 10 on the American Top 40. Some of it is genius. Some of it might have you shaking your head. But it’s fun to see how far its come.

As always you can check out previous Soundcloud Selectors here.

Beatport Charts: Top Ten – Trance

July 23, 2013 by Roman

Trance: soaring, uplifting, hypnotic. It’s the good stuff. Here are the Top Ten Trance tracks on Beatport as of July 23, 2013. You can check out the rest of the Top 100 here.

https://soundcloud.com/armadamusicofficial/bt-aqualung-surrounded

https://soundcloud.com/armadamusicofficial/aly-fila-feat-sue-mclaren-1

SoundCloud Selector – Disco Fries: An Introduction

July 23, 2013 by Roman

The Disco Fries are ridiculously good, and incredibly fun to listen to. Ranging from dirty, dirty, electro-house, club-friendly remixes, and big stadium-sized bangers, they’re up-and-comers, so don’t be surprised if you start hearing a lot more of them.

More Disco Fries:

Soundcloud

Facebook

Twitter

You can check out previous SoundCloud Selector playlists here.

Electronic Daisy Carnival London 2013

July 18, 2013 by Roman

Londoners and Party People visiting London, EDC PLUR is on the way.

July 20^th sees the Electronic Daisy Carnival roll into town, with the festival taking refuge in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The Electronic Daisy Carnival, or EDC, has one foot straddling the mainstream, with radio station such as Capital FM frequently plugging the event, and another firmly rooted in the growing EDM scene within the UK. For all intents and purposes, the EDC is being billed as ‘new’ festival that’s going to hit London, however this is not strictly the case. The Electronic Daisy Carnival has already experienced a meteoric rise to dominance in the United States, with the London event being an export of the successful franchise. This report will run through the roots of the festival, where it came from, what to expect, and most importantly, which acts will be turning up to party.

From Southern California to London, via Texas, Colorado, Puerto Rico, Florida, New York, Las Vegas and Chicago

The EDC is America’s largest EDM orientated festival, but this has not always been the case. The festival had humble beginnings, originally being a one day event based in Southern California. As the success of the event grew, the festival transformed into a multi-day event and began to branch out into other cities. Many cities have held stellar EDC parties, with the crown jewel of these events in recent years being the Vegas event. The Las Vegas leg of the Electronic Daisy Carnival attracted over 300,000 revelers! As EDM has reached an all time high level of popularity within the UK, Insomniac (the company responsible for producing EDC events) deemed it was time to unleash the electronic beast upon London.

Production Value

Electronic music festivals are appearing more frequently in the capital, spurred on by the surge in popularity of house music within the UK. This has seen promoters Eastern Electrics expand their summer event into a full weekend festival, with camping. However, throwing electronic music festivals in the capital is not easy business, as last year’s dismal Bloc Weekend can testify.

Planning is always such a key issue for events and Insomniac events are well accustomed to handling large audiences. The festival organisers know how to cater for a crowd, with the official website of the London gig hinting at ‘everything from venue changing décor to major firework displays’, and if the footage and images from past EDC events are to go by, the venue will be fully kitted out to offer a feast for the eyes.

The venue chosen for the party also promises to be a rock solid choice. The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park was the centre of the world’s attention last year at the Olympics, with the venue now being a multi-purpose arena – perfect for Insomniac to sculpt into the best audio/visual platform possible.

Who’s Performing?

The most important aspect of the Electronic Daisy Carnival will always be the music, with the London leg of the festival being no exception to this. The event has secured EDM royalty Avicii, Tiesto and Steve Angello as headliners, with Hardwell, Crookers and Madeon also on the bill. There is plenty of UK talent on display too, with the likes of Fake Blood, Jack Beats, Jaguar Skills and Mistajam also listed to play. UK dubsteppers Caspa and Rusko will also be present. For extra variety, drum and bass veteran and Metalheadz don, Goldie is also on the lineup, as is Shy FX.

The event promises to be a day to remember for all those performing and attending. The lineup features a good spread of electronic music, with both new and classic acts. The venue promises to be exquisite, and with the temperature currently soaring in London and the rest of the UK, the Olympic park should be drenched in sunshine.

~~Zack Hayes

Beatport Top Ten: Electro House July 16, 2013

July 17, 2013 by Roman

This week’s Beatport charts are of the Electro House variety. Bangers a-plenty.

https://soundcloud.com/elektrikent/fuck-me-im-famous-henry-john

https://soundcloud.com/edmexqlusiv-all-tm/basto-dance-with-me-original

You can find and buy the the Electro House Top 100 here.

Soundcloud Selector: Girls Who Make The Bass Drop Edition

July 15, 2013 by Roman

It’s a male-dominated scene out there in EDM land. There are only a handful (comparatively) of established, well-known female DJs, and the list of female producers is even smaller. But it’s growing. This week on Soundcloud Selector, we give you ten of our favorite female producers out there. There’s a little bit of everything, from icons like DJ Rap, to established underground heroes like Maya Jane Coles, to up-and-coming stars like Rebecca & Fiona, we’ve got a little bit of everything.

The Big Sounds

The Chiller Side

https://soundcloud.com/ikonika/pr812

You can check out the full playlist on my Soundcloud page.

Enjoy!

~~Keith Ancker

Beatport Top 10: House

July 9, 2013 by Roman

The place to grab new tracks, whether you need them for your set or for yourself.

This week we’ve got the Top 10 House tracks on Beatport as of July 9, 2013

Street Player (Club Mix) – Tradelove

LoudBit

The End (Club Mix) – Stefano Noferini

Spinnin Records

Funky Nassau (Original Mix) – Federico Scavo

d:vision

https://soundcloud.com/federicoscavo/federico-scavo-funky-nassau

King of My Castle (Crazibiza Mix) – Wamdue Project

Strictly Rhythm

Back (Original Mix) – Marcel X Stefano Pain

CR2 Records

What About My Love (Etienne Ozborne X Peter Brown Remix) – Jerome Robbins X Dolly Rockers

Jungle Funk Recordings

Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat (Main Vocal Mix) – Fatboy Slim X Riva Starr

Skint Records

Where Is My Man (Diva Mix) – Joe T Vannelli X Eartha Kitt

Level 2 Records

(unavailable at press time on SoundCloud, but you can check it out here)

Move On (Original Mix) – Leonardo GloVibes

PPMusic

(another one unavailable on SoundCloud but you can buy it here, or check out the video below)

Feel It In The Air (Original Mix) – My Digital Enemy X Jason Chance

Zulu Records

For more check the complete House Top 100 over at Beatport

~~Keith Ancker

SoundCloud Selector 1 + 5 Edition: “So Good To Me” – Chris Malinchak

July 6, 2013 by Roman

1+5 is our remix edition. We dig when a good tune is taken, flipped, tweaked, and turned into something new, something different. So every so often, we’re going to highlight a track (1) and give you (+) the best of the remixes (5) we can find.

First up? Chris Malinchak’s “So Good To Me”. We wouldn’t say its been an obsession, but if you could wear a digital file out, this one would be ruined. Something about it, the perfect simplicity, the beachside-in-Miami-at-sunset-cocktail-in-hand feeling…whatever it is, Malinchak flips Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “If This World Were Mine” into the perfect summertime jam.

So we dug around and found some interesting remixes. There’s some house, some trance, a little D’n’B, and and some other stuff.

If you want more, you can find the So Good To Me Remix playlist on my SoundCloud page. There are a few dozen of them so far, and there are plenty of good ones that didn’t make the top five.

The Original