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Last week we announced the winners of our 2010 Beatport Music Awards; now it’s your turn to ask the winning producers their secrets to success.

Ask a question of any of our winners in the comments field below; we’ll select the best queries and get them answered for you! How does Deadmau5 stand the heat inside that mask? How did Funkagenda and Mark Knight come up with the idea of turning Chic’s cheery ‘Good Times’ into a nerve-wracking tech-house epic? And how does Loco Dice feel about winning in the Minimal category?

Post your questions between now and Friday, June 4, and we’ll bring you the answers in a future post here on Beatportal.

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Frederik Nyberg’s Trunkfunk label celebrates 10 years with a new mix compilation highlighting catalog highlights from Stuffa, the Touch, David Ekenback, Nyberg (as DJ Nibc), and Tyken, plus remixes from Pig & Dan, Style of Eye, Jamie Anderson, John Dahlback, and even DJ Assault.

Tough, peaktime techno and tech house are the order of the day, from the raw and jacking to the lush and overblown. In the video above, filmmaker Anders Hellman provides a kaleidoscopic accompaniment to a four-minute megamix of the album. Check out the full tracklisting after the jump.

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Strictly for DJs is a new, occasional feature in which we’ll be exploring the tricks of the DJ’s trade from a variety of angles, from the software we use to the way we organize our files. The art of the DJ is evolving rapidly, and we hope to encourage practices that do more than just replicate old models. Share your thoughts in the comments below.

There’s a fascinating article in last week’s Guardian that suggests that all these years, we’ve been listening to Robert Johnson, the King of the Delta Blues, pitched up at an incredible +20. Whatever the reason—perhaps the original 78 recordings were mastered incorrectly, or perhaps the recordings “were deliberately speeded up to make them sound more exciting”—that’s a huge difference, and one that is causing critics to rethink their basic assumptions about the music.

To put that in more familiar terms, if my math is correct, it’d be like playing a 33RPM record at 45, pitched down to -8. (Or, if it’s easier to imagine, spinning a 120BPM track at 144, or taking a midtempo house track into territory north of dubstep.)

It got me thinking about the DJ’s use of pitch control as a creative tool in its own right. One of the boons of digital DJ technology is that we’re no longer shackled to the hardwired poles of 33 and 45RPM, with a plus or minus 8 percent leeway in either direction. Pioneer’s CDJ-1000 offers tempo ranges of plus or minus 8, 10, 16, 70, and 100 percent, and Traktor Scratch allows similar flexibility (8, 10, 35, 50, and 100 percent).

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Joey Beltram’s ‘Game Form’ is remixed by Robert Armani and comes with Paul Johnson version of ‘Instant’ and the two original versions. Both tracks were originally released in 1995 but they were only available for a limited time.

Joey Beltram’s ‘Game Form’ is remixed by Robert Armani and comes with Paul Johnson version of ‘Instant’ and the two original versions. Both tracks were originally released in 1995 but they were only available for a limited time.

Merovingienne – EP – For many months, I see the Versatile studio back into whole analog mess : cables lying around everywhere, old samplers have resumed service, weird design machines resurfaced, the computer is relegated to a corner …With this ‘Merovingienne ep’, I:Cube arrives at the synthesis (final ?). The influences are there, seminal: mental techno and creepy funk mate to give birth to sublimes bastards. A dirty sound, and chiseled structures, which reveal a little more each listening. My ritual when Nicolas gives me his songs, it’s to delay the time when, my earphones on my head, late at night, I listen … and hear.So many years after his ’3′, I:Cube latest album, a new LP is in preparation, this time for sure!The form it will take will surprise you, no doubt….An me also… But it is not what we want ?So to wait, these three sublimes songs that I have the honor, pride and pleasure to publish on Versatile …The huge records speak for themselves … and each individually.Gilbert Cohen

Toronto’s finest man, James Teej follows last summer’s huge track ‘Spending Life’ with ‘Get Off The Phone’, another beautiful and brillant song! James Teej is a 29 year old Canadian born electronic music artist, producer and DJ currently residing in Toronto. Having signed tracks to such labels as Rebirth, Rekids, Connect Four and Tic Tac Toe, James has proven himself to be a highly versatile music producer and vocal performer!
With track support from the worlds top DJs and producers, including inspirational veterans such as Laurent Garnier, Radio Slave, Robert Owens, Carl Cox, Danny Tenaglia, Osunlade, Steve Lawler, Peter Kruder (Kruder & Dormeister), in addition to some of the most influential new talents such as Jamie Jones, Seth Troxler, Sasse, Spencer Parker and Motorcitysoul, James looks to further his journey of creating highly emotive music that touches people all over the world, in clubs, on the radio, at home, across borders and cultures.
Written in late 2009 ‘Get Off The Phone’ is a groovy stripped back house track written and recorded during a string of late nights in Toronto. With a catchy bass line, simple hook, and overall hypnotic feel, the track is kept subtle while still retaining that late night and early morning vibe, perfect for. warm up, deep and afterhours sets.
Pezzner proves why he’s one of the hottest names right now. Two warm mixes, bass heavy, deep and moody, with a touch of jazz ! Pure class !With a debut LP set soon to be released on Rekids and a slew of singles and EPs set to be released this year on such respected labels such as Ripperton’s Perspectiv imprint, My Favorite Robot Records, and No.19, James Teej is well on his way to truly making his own unique mark on electronic music.

Lazy Days welcomes Kruse & Nuernberg from Germany to the growing family of quality Lazy Days roster with this great double A-Sider. Label boss Fred Everything comes to the remix duty once again to round up this EP.

Written and Produced by Florian Kruse and Nils Nuernberg.
Remix by Fred Everything
Published by Soundz/LazyDays(Atal)

Lazy Days is proud to welcome Kruse & Nuernberg to the growing family!

Together and separately, Kruse & Nuernberg have been responsible for some of the best Deep House coming out of Germany lately. Their productions can be found on labels including 8bit, Om, NRK, Kolour, 20:20 Vision and many more.

Sliced & Chopped is a perfect example of their evolving style, deep but driving. It only took a sneak peak from label boss Fred Everything to know these two tracks were pure Lazy Days material and snap them up fast. Hot on the heels of red hot remixes for Atnarko and LawnChair Generals, and in the run up to his ‘Om Masters’ mix compilation, Fred puts his magic touch on Chopped, adding his own vocal chants and turning the whole thing into a peak time monster.

This is the perfect EP for the summer, we hope you enjoy as much as we do!

Support by :
Aaron Ross (Defected), Mark Farina, Roberto Rodriguez,LawnChair Generals,Heather, Shur-I-Kan,Sneak,Nacho Marco and many more…

Duplicated from (Spinnin’ Records Sol Noir Superstring)