Author Archive

Official Beatport catalog sale

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

For the next five days, Beatport will be hosting a catalog sale for all general content. *Tracks normally priced at $1.49/€1.30/£1.12 will be lowered to $.99/€.99/£.79.

Read more on Beatportal

The Black Eyed Peas remix contest winners

Monday, November 16th, 2009

The Black Eyed Peas have finally chosen the six winners of their ‘I Gotta Feeling’ remix contest. Over 1200 remixes were submitted, and 41,000 votes were cast, making it the biggest ever remix contest held on Beatportal.

For the next week we will reveal the top six remixes as chosen by the band, which will be highlighted on Dipdive.com, the online community for The Black Eyed Peas.

Read more on Beatportal

The 20 hottest tracks on Beatport this week

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Who would have thought that Popof had a softer side? The French underground techno hero gets cute and melodic on his latest cut ‘Brain On The Side’, which is one of the hottest cuts on Beatport this week.

The slamming and heavy hitting tech house on Octave One’s new ‘A World Divided’ is also a killer, as is Santos’ brilliant new wonky techno cut ‘Lania Inesperada’ on Figure.

The Kabale und Liebe and Julien Chaptal Remix of Gregorythyme ‘Summmer’ is worth checking, and be sure to listen to Butch’s amazing ode to classic house on ‘Pump Pump’.

Click through to listen to the full 20.

Read more on Beatportal

The 20 hottest tracks on Beatport this week

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Shinedoe, Gaiser, Moderat, Tiger Stripes, and Boys Noize are featured in this week’s The 20.

Each week we like to highlight the 20 hottest cuts floating about on Beatport, with 10 chosen by the public and 10 chosen by Beatport’s team of music gurus. We do the digging, so you don’t have to.

The 10 featured releases span multiple genres and are always forward-thinking, whilst the tracks from the Top 10 are guaranteed mainroom crowd pleasers.

Click through to listen to the full 20.

Read more on Beatportal

The 20 hottest tracks on Beatport this week

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Each week we like to highlight the 20 hottest cuts floating about on Beatport, with 10 chosen by the public and 10 chosen by Beatport’s music team. We do the digging, so you don’t have to.

The 10 featured releases span multiple genres and are always forward-thinking, whilst the tracks from the Top 10 are guaranteed mainroom crowd pleasers.

This week Nick Curly (pictured), DJ Hell, LoSoul, Silent Servant, Adam Beyer and Timo Maas are featured in The 20, our weekly radio show, which you can now listen to on Beatport’s Mixcloud channel.

Click through to listen to previews of all 20 tracks featured on this week’s show.

Read more on Beatportal

The new Pioneer CDJ-2000 upgrade contest

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Here is your chance to properly upgrade your gear and be the envy of DJs around the world. By entering The Upgrade contest one lucky Beatport user will receive a brand new set of Pioneer CDJ-2000s and the fully compatible Traktor Scratch Pro courtesy of
Beatport, Pioneer Electronics and Native Instruments.

Read more on Beatportal

Beatport presents Mixed In Key’s “Harmonic Mixing” DJ Contest

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

The challenge: Showcase your favorite music genre in a 10-15 minute mix that will impress our judges which includes some of the world’s best DJs. The top winner will receive prizes worth over $3000 USD.

Read more on Beatportal

The 20 hottest tracks on Beatport this week

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Each week we like to highlight the 20 hottest cuts floating about on Beatport, with 10 chosen by the public and 10 chosen by Beatport’s team of music gurus.

This week Adam Beyer is back with a standout melodic techno cut, ‘Something To Die For’, on his rarely-seen Mad Eye label. Continuing the late night melodies, Gregor Tresher drops the first single from his new album ‘The Live Wire’, whilst Joris Voorn remixes Dosem’s ‘Beach Kisses’ into one of the best euphoric techno cuts of the year.

Lauhaus continues his recent run of deep minimal house with ‘Latenights’, and Mannheim master Gorge digs even deeper with a remix of Garnica.

There’s sexy disco flavoured house from Motor City Drum Ensemble and pumping progressive house from Neil Quigley.

Top sellers this week include tracks from Dirty South and Sebastian Ingrosso, Neuroxyde, David Guetta, Cirez D, Young Rebels and Francesco Diaz, and a new version of River Ocean’s seminal classic ‘Love & Happiness’.

Listen to them all after the jump!

Read more on Beatportal

The 20 hottest tracks on Beatport this week

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Each week we like to highlight the 20 hottest cuts floating about on Beatport, with 10 chosen by the public and 10 chosen by Beatport’s team of music gurus. We do the digging, so you don’t have to.

The 10 featured releases span multiple genres and are always forward-thinking, whilst the tracks from the Top 10 are guaranteed mainroom crowd pleasers.

This week sees tracks by Jamie Jones, Chaim, Catz ‘n Dogz, Ben Klock, and Funkagenda & Mark Knight featured.

Listen to previews of The 20 after the jump.

Read more on Beatportal

The 20 hottest tracks on Beatport this week

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Each week we like to highlight the 20 hottest cuts floating about on Beatport, with 10 chosen by the public and 10 chosen by Beatport’s team of music gurus. We do the digging, so you don’t have to.

The 10 featured releases span multiple genres and are always forward-thinking, whilst the tracks from the Top 10 are guaranteed mainroom crowd pleasers.

This week sees tracks by Extrawelt, Chaim, Paul Ritch, Cirez D, and Santiago & Bushido featured.

Listen to previews of The 20 after the jump.

Read more on Beatportal