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Pete Tong Essential Selection 11-09-2009
As I listen through this mix I will be giving ratings of my favorite tracks and artists. ... Tracklisting: Ducksauce- 'aNYway' (Data) Dizzee Rascal- 'Holiday' (Laidback Luke) (Dirtee Stank/ XL) Snap- 'Rhythm Is A Dancer' (Armand Van Helden Remix) (Data) Temper Trap- 'Sweet Disposition' (Axwell & Dirty South Remix) (Liberation) Fatboy Slim- 'Right Here Right Now' (Skint) Stardust- 'Music Sounds Better' (Roule/ Virgin) Chase & Status- 'End Credits' (Universal) Royksopp- 'This Must Be It' (Thin White Duke Mix) (Wall Of Sound) Kings Of Leon- 'Use Somebody' (Tong & Rogers Wonderalnd Mix) (White Label Retro/ Grade- 'Moda' (Retro/Grade) Miike Snow- 'Black & Blue' (Caspa Remix) (Sony/ Columbia) Analogue In A Digital World- 'Circus' (Ego Music) Chocolate Puma- 'I Wanna Be You' (Cream Records) 24 Hour Party With Jack Penate Jack Penate- 'Pull My Heart Away' (From The Beach Mix) (XL Recordings) Richard Grey Vs Erick Morillo & Rose Nunez & Shawnee Taylor- 'Life Goes On' (Subliminal) Steve Mac- 'After Sundown' (Tronic) Energy 52- 'Cafe Del Mar' (Deadmau5 Remix) (White Label) Boy 8 Bit- 'Baltic Pine' (This Is Music/ Co-Operative) This Weeks Essential New Tune Reboot- 'Caminando' (Sei Es Drum) Classic Essential New Tune Dennis Ferrer & Jerome Sydemham- 'Sandcastles' (Defected) Classic Wonderments The Streets - 'Has It Come To This' (Warners) Silicone Soul - 'Right On' (Soma) Sex-O-Sonique - 'I Thought It Was You' (FFRR) New Wonderments Claude Von Stroke - 'Vocal Chords' (Dirty Bird) Ricardo Villalobos - 'Easy Life' (Reboot Edit) (White) House To House - 'Rushing To Paradise' (Walking These Streets) (Whatever We Want) Essential Hot Mix Glocal - 'After Midnight' (AFFKT & Danny Fiddo Mix) (Rebirth) Still Going - 'Spaghetti Circus' (DFA Records) Reboot - 'Enjoy Music' (Cocoon) Underworld - 'Two Months Off' (Tong & Rogers Underworld Mix) (White) Sneaky Sound System - 'Pictures On/Off' (Funkagenda Bootleg) (White) One More Tune!Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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deadmau5 in Ottawa September 23, 2009
Tonight, September 23, 2009 I will be seeing deadmau5 play in Ottawa. I will be taking pics and hopefully posting them up here, along with a review of how the show was!Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Artist-driven vs advertiser-driven radio and music
One of my favorite things about BBC radio 1 is that they seem to have taken the artist approach to media. ... Digital music was meant to be listened to uninterrupted and it seems it has taken the internet age almost a decade to display its most aesthetic listening format.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Holiday - Dizzee Rascal Feat. Chrome, new video (Produced by Calvin Harris)
I think Amsterdam just got bumped for that Boogie Nights pool party going on in the video . . . Also highly recommended is the Laidback Luke remix for this track . . . even more club-friendly, if you can imagine that.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Reasons to become a DJ
Paul Oakenfold is reportedly makes $7.5 million dollars a year and there are plenty of DJs who charge as much as $50,000 for one gig (Tiesto, deadmau5). ... You might be a champ with ‘guitar hero’ but learning to play real guitars or keeping time with a live band on with drums is actually hard work.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow. -
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Laidback Luke with Robin S
Read more . . . →This track has an amazing live vocal performed along with the DJ in the club. Sweet party!
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Sander van Doorn at Creamfields 2009
Read more . . . →A quick shot of the helicopter ride over to Creamfields and a bit of footage from the event itself. The first part is the really cool part, then it starts to get a bit boring, hope you enjoy!
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PvD pulls a dirty trick by cancelling ATB at Planet Love 2009
According to the myspace and Twitter account of trance DJ ATB, Paul Van Dyk told the organizers that he would refuse to play if ATB was on stage before him. ... The reality is, that the organizers just told me and my manager one our ago at the festival, that Paul van Dyk told them, that when I play (my contracted playtime was 10-12 PM) my set right before his set 12-2 AM, he will not play!Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Sebastien Leger brings down the house . . .literally!
"Suddenly the wind ripped the roof off and then the speakers collapsed almost on top of me. ... Leger and many caught the incident on cameras and the footage is now on YouTube.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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Deadmau5 "For Lack of a Better Name Tour" Ottawa September 23, 2009
Read more . . . →In four weeks Ottawa clubs are getting a revolutionary change; deadmau5 returns! Often found in the creative lab known as the ‘deadmau5 disco den of despair and inequity’ this creative genius is comparable to no other. For the last two years his releases have steadily GROWN from the first time I heard him featured by Tiesto. deadmau5's magnificent stylings have a captured an audience that moves with him and his sounds. Ranging from electro to progressive one thing has become synonymous with deadmau5; consistent quality. Currently working with the group 24twentyfour, the future is powered by the sounds of deadmau5....
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