We’ve got a winner!
Back in December, Strictly Rhythm celebrated 20 years of label history by offering fans a chance to remix Armand Van Helden’s ‘Witch Doktor’, a classic slab of darkside house music. Now, the votes have been tallied and Strictly Rhythm have chosen their favorite from the 20 finalists.
Once again Beatport makes its annual pilgrimage to Miami to bring you one of the most sought out events during the Winter Music Conference. “The Beatport Beach Party”, presented by Beatport, Pioneer and Armani Exchange takes place at Gansevoort Hotel’s beautiful private beach and will feature over 25 of the world’s best DJs, with no cover.
To ensure a memorable experience for all attendees Beatport has teamed up with Insomniac Events of Los Angeles and the Opium Group of Miami to showcase bigger and better production, visuals, and sound. This is the WMC event you don’t want to miss.
Last week the results of Breakspoll 2010 were unveiled at a bassline-fueled party at Fabric nightclub in London.
Beatport grabbed the award for Best Retailer, so thanks to everyone that voted for us! Here’s the full results.
Fabric’s monthly mix CDs are some of the most highly sought after DJ mixes in clubland, as the London institution only lines up the crème de la crème of underground DJ talent to compile and mix for them.
Now on its 100th mix album - the club has released 50 entries in both its Fabric and FabricLive categories - the club has seen everyone from Jacques Lu Cont, to Fabio, John Digweed, Adam Beyer, M.A.N.D.Y., Robert Hood, DJ Yoda, Mark Farina, Krafty Kuts, Metro Area, Magda, and Âme do Fabric CDs, as well as of course, the club’s respectable residents like Craig Richards, Terry Francis, DBridge and Instrumental, and the late, great, John Peel.
Until Monday 1st March, Beatport users can get their hands on digital versions of most of the Fabric mix CDs for just $6.99 / £5.25.
Check out Fabric’s back catalog of DJ mixes here.
If you haven’t already voted for Beatport and Beatportal in the IDMAs, you’re clearly not spending your time appropriately on the internet.
Voting closes this Friday! Please vote for us in the categories for Best Music Website (Beatportal), and Best Speciality Retailer (Beatport). We’ll love you forever. Promise.
Electro house superstar Wolfgang Gartner, the man behind eight Beatport No.1s including Beatport’s most downloaded single of 2009 ‘Wolfgang’s 5th Symphony’, is offering aspiring producers the chance to put their own spin on his 2009 hit ‘Latin Fever’.
As usual, the Beatport and Beatportal community will have the chance to vote for the best submitted remixes by ’spinning’ their favorites. The winning remix will be released on Wolfgang Gartner’s label, Kindergarten.
A whopping 3500 mixes and 330,000 votes were submitted during the qualifying round of Next Generation DJ (NGDJ), the world’s biggest ever DJ talent search.
The mixes have been whittled down to just 100 finalists, who will now be judged by a team of industry experts and top DJs including Sebastian Ingrosso, DJ Magazine’s Editor in Chief Ben Murphy, Mark Grotefeld, Pioneer DJ’s Head of Marketing, and Beatport’s CEO Jonas Tempel.
“I always keep my ears to the ground for new talent, for both inspiration for my DJing and producing, but also as a label owner.
“There were loads of great mixes and ideas in the first stage of NGDJ, so I’m psyched to see what will happen in the finals,” said Sebastian Ingrosso.
In November for the first time, pioneering electronic music band Yello put up remix parts to two of their classic hits and asked the Beatport community to remix to their hearts’ content.
After weeks of deliberation, Yello have announced the winners of their ‘Bostich’ / ‘Oh Yeah’ double remix contest.
Here are the winners and runners-up to both contests.
RA has revealed its Top 100 electronic music tracks of the decade.
The site voted Morgan Geist’s cover of Lipps Inc’s 1980 disco classic ‘Funkytown’, Metro Area ‘Miura’, as the top track of the noughties. Also in the Top 10 was Laurent Garnier’s ‘Man With The Red Face’, Ame ‘Rej’, Octave One ‘Blackwater’, Burial ‘Archangel’, Newworldaquarium ‘Trespassers’, LCD Soundsystem ‘Losing My Edge’, and Ricardo Villalobos ‘Easy Lee’.
A large number of the tracks that made it into RA’s Top 100 are available on Beatport. Click through to listen to the ones that are.
Beatport receives thousands of DJ charts every month from some of the world’s most influential spinners, and each month on Beatportal we collate all of those DJ charts to produce a list of The 50 Most Charted Tracks. The results are usually pretty indicative of what the world DJ community considers currently hot.
London-based producer Tim Green is on course to becoming one of 2010’s most talked about techno artists - his track ‘Lone Time’ was the most charted track by DJs on Beatport in January.
Other new entries include Defected’s latest house bomb ‘Back To NY’ produced by DJ Chus and Rob Mirage, Duoteque’s spooky new techno thriller ‘Gotcha’ on Boxer, and the pumping tribal house groove ‘Zuma’, produced by newcomers Jet Project on Get Physical Digital.
Loco Dice’s latest rumbling minimal house cut ‘Definition’ is also in the Top 10 for January. 2000 And One and DJ Madskillz’ remix of Reset Robot and Christian Smith ‘Air Miles’ has also proven it has some staying power - the driving tech house cut was released in early December but was the 4th most charted track in January.
Click through for the full Top 50.
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