DjOriented

She might play in one of the world’s most intimidating DJ booths – in Berlin’s Panorama Bar, but when it comes to talking about her favourite tracks, Catherine Britton, or Cassy, as she’s known to the underground, struggles.

“I know this is not what you wanted, but I’ve been trying for the last few days, and to be honest I’ve been dreading it,” she says, of her attempts to select her current Weekend Weapons for Beatportal.

What Cassy has done instead, is talk passionately about the artists whom she included on her new ‘Simply Devotion’ mix compilation for Cocoon (out last week).

Over to Cassy…

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Britain’s Pete Tong landed in New York City last Sunday for the start of a two week North American tour.

As usual the dance music treasure is keeping the Beatportal community up to date with his thoughts and tales from the road throughout his trip.

Read on for Pete’s first post from the road, which includes three bombs straight from the floor of Cielo.

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(P) 2009Future Lovers (C) 2009Future Lovers

150+ heavily processed Synth Loops

************Please note: This pack contains synth loops only. Other percussion sounds used in the demo are strictly meant to illustrate the possible usage of the pack.

From deep within the coveted labs at Prime Loops HQ, after months of dangerous experiments, cruel synthesis testing, and sleep deprivation, Synth Addict is unleashed…but beware…this is one’s infectious, do you want the remedy?

Are you sure? Because this is quite simply one of the most groundbreaking synth loops collections of the market today. Are you a true Synth Addict? Everything has been developed and tested using a highly confidential mixture of vintage, new analogue synthesizers and cutting edge digital processing tools; concocting the hottest and most extreme sounds of the moment with advanced synthesis techniques gained over years and countless hits in the making. You will not find another release like this, anywhere.

With 150+ jaw-dropping, upfront crazy synth loops, tearing, explosive, killer lead riffs, heart-attack, high pressure pulsating pads, and soaring, stomach-wrenching, mammoth bass earthquakes, Synth Addict is a force to be reckoned with, and an absolutely essential addition to your laboratories sound arsenal.

We took a great deal of care making sure everything here was engineered and manufactured to perfection, everything has been recorded in 24-bit audio ensuring the utmost quality, and as you’ve come to expect with all Prime Loops releases, Synth Addict is completely royalty free, and can be used in all your projects and releases, this way you avoid sample licensing costs, and large label fees, keeping 100% ownership of your work.

Whether you produce House or Dubstep, IDM to Electronica, Progressive to Tech, or maybe you’re looking for that killer riff for you next hit, if you suffer from synth addiction, we are extremely confident you will love what’s waiting for you inside. However, please use with caution, Synth Addict is toxic, and extremely addictive, the side effects are unknown…

*No producers were harmed in the making of this sample pack.

Wahahaha! Halloween comes on Saturday, and many of ye will have to entertain ghosts and ghouls during the night with Halloween flavoured DJ sets. Not playing a Halloween track on Halloween is guaranteed to bring about a visit from some ungodly creature, or flour bombs from the tricksters.

We have put together a couple of DJ charts full of blood curdling tracks, and bone shaking bombs for the DJs amongst you who don’t want to resort to playing Micheal Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ as your Halloween song.

Click through to listen to both charts, and let us know your own Halloween songs in the comments section below!

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Ricky Bradshaw, The Jump Skip Ep

Written, arranged and produced by Ricky Bradshaw for The Liquid Muzik Group
copyright and publishing 2009 Liquid Groove Muzik/ASCAP

Choo Choo returns to Subliminal

Choo Choo returns to Subliminal for an all out dance floor assault.
Primed and set Harry goes to town on Todd Terry’s sample of ‘keep on
Jumping’ dropping some serious muscle beats combined with a dope tripped
out synth, this is for a hardcore dance floor, no messin’.

Incredible new house cover of the Delerium classic!!! Incl. Soulmagic remix.

South Africas new house wonderboy Shane D has been on fire lately with remixes on labels such as Soulfuric and Soulheat Rec and has remixed for artists like John “Julius” Knight, Roland Clark and Ananda Project. But it doesn’t end there…
Now he spoils us with a fantastic cover of the old club anthem Silence by Delirium – complete with chunky groovin’ bassline and a wonderful vocal performance by Kerry Wood.

Some early reactions:
Grant Nelson – Silence is large, gonna do well out there bro…
Dave Redsoul – cheers guys! Soul Magic mix is definitely the one! Full support!
Carlos Silva – My man Shane does it again. Loving the Main Mix and the Soulmagic Mix
Roog & Greg, Hardsoul – We need more stuff like this! Working on an edit of this!
Christian Alvarez – I”m feeling all of the dub mixes. Will  certainly support.
Richard Earnshaw – I say chaps…. not a bad cover at all! Soulmagic Mix and D’s Broken Soul Dub are my favourites…. support from me as always!
Victor Simonelli – Soulmagic Mix and the Dub- These are the One’s I will be playing at all the upcoming gigs, Very Nice
Evan from Groove Junkies – Another tight release from the Soulmagic camp. This one features haunting vocals courtesy of Ms Wood and a variety of mixes that are spot on!!
Dutchican Soul – Realllllyyy Nice tracks, I like the D’s Broken Soul Dub the most. Cool package, full support!!

Silence (Original Credits)
Written-By – Bill Leeb , Rhys Fulber , Sarah McLachlan
Published by Esoteria / NettSongs Publishing / Chrysalis Songs / Tyde Music / Sony/ATV Tunes (SOCAN/BMI).
_ 1999 & © 1998 Nettwerk Productions.

Silence (Cover Version by Shane D and Kerry Wood)
Produced, Arranged and Mixed by Shane D
Lead and Backing Vocals performed by Kerry Wood
Keyboards performed by Shane D
Vocals recorded by Colin Peddie at Sonic Studios
Mixed at D.C.M Digital – Durban, South Africa

Soulmagic remix by Mikkel Wendelboe & Morten Trust for Soulmagic Recordings.