Archive for August, 2007.

British house DJ Sasha has launched his own record label “Emfire”

Posted by admin on August 29th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

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British house DJ Sasha has launched his own record label as an outlet for his own exclusive productions. Emfire is the result of a collaborative effort with his studio friends Charlie May, Duncan Forbes and Barry Jamieson aka COMA, a pseudonym that also is the name of the first release.

“It’s been exciting getting back in the studio again after a hiatus,” said Sasha.

“I am looking forward to using this new imprint as a vehicle to release my own music as well as signing great forward thinking music from other producers.”

Emfire will release digitally and on vinyl and feature a strong continuous graphic theme that will run from release to release.

It is rumoured that a colour-coded graded spectrum will marry to a numeric sequence.

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Art collective Insect, known for their recent work with graffiti and urban art specialist Banksy are handling the art direction.

“We want it to be simple, beautiful and collectable, particularly in terms of the vinyl,” commented Sasha.

Three forthcoming Sasha tracks will be released as a limited edition one-sided 12” and will also be available digitally.

The first release will be ‘Coma’ out in October.

Swayzak return with new album “Some Other Country”

Posted by admin on August 29th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

cell phone Swayzak are their old selves again! James Taylor’s fatherhood sabatical is over, David “Brun” Brown managed things during his absence anyway, and now they return together with their album “Some other country.”


Swayzak’s new opus sounds mature and full. On the Brits’ fifth album, what counts is quality, loud showy effects are superfluous. Swayzak have always loved their echo pedal, but in their tenth year of existence, their dub-techno attains a new, compositional dimension. “We’re more interested in atmosphere,” says Brun. “The album is darker and heavier �” a reaction to all that minimal stuff that has become a type of mainstream.” Indeed, the pieces on “Some other country” aren’t just a trip to another country: little worlds unfold.

Can a diamond get goose pimples? Perhaps it can, if it is confronted with a deep jewel like the opener “Quiet Life.” With the vocals of Berlin producer and DJ Cassy (Panorama Bar/Berghain), Swayzak stage a moving, room-filling question-and-answer game. It’s similarly the case in “Smile and Receive,” where her clear voice mixes with strange noises and gentle bell ringing.

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Swayzak’s favorite singer, Richard Davis (kitty-yo, Punkt), is also back. In a gentle and mysteriously melodious voice, he tells in “No sad goodbyes” of how he corrected a faux pas. Then these bright, crystal clear moments, the type one sometimes experiences after an all-nighter, resonate along with it. And it’s thanks to Swayzak if a tension is built up here, which could capsize at any moment, thereby keeping the listener on his or her toes. Grand cinema, but no kitsch.

On the other hand, absurd and completely hysterical, the fun Italian pop’n’roll band “Les Fauves” sings about an unhappy young love: “You’re just a child, you have time to forget.” Well then! The singer’s nasal voice is unique, “an unusual guy who works for a blood transfusion service, that rubbed off on him,” says Brun. Swayzak illustrate this very angry song in a way that is both hymnal and strange and pack the whole thing with a lot of pop appeal. Monty Python goes techno…

At the beginning of “Claktronic” a girl says “up in the air.” And everything starts in a playful, beepy way. But step by step an expressively played flute is added and so is a xylophone and a heavenly chorus. Framed by a razor-sharp high hat and bouncy bass, the piece’s airy arrangement develops, opening onto an almost sacral level.

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We can only be amazed by so much courage for intense feelings and for so much fun in experimentation. With “Some other country,” James Taylor and David “Brun” Brown deliver what to date is their most expressive album. Fasten your seat belt, it’s a well-directed assault on the doors to our perception. “See, they return,” say Swayzak at the end of the album, quoting Ezra Pound. Yes, Swayzak are back, and how!

Tracklist:

01 Quiet Life (feat. cassy)

02 So Cheap

03 No Sad Goodbyes (feat. richard davis)

04 Distress And Calling

05 Smile And Receive (feat. cassy)

06 Claktronic

07 Silent Luv (feat. les fauves)

08 Pukka Bumbles

References: http://swayzak.com

Yamaha proudly unveil brand new and visually stunning performance instrument: TENORI-ON

Posted by admin on August 29th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

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Conceived by leading Japanese media artist Toshio Iwai in 2001 and following five years of intensive development. The TENORI-ON has been showcased ad refined at major music events and media art festivals; Sonar (Spain), Futuresonic (U.K), Ars Electronica (Austria), SIGGRAPH (U.S), Art Futura (Spain) and more, as well as being road tested by cutting edge electronic music artists: Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Matthew Herbert, Mouse On Mars, Cornelius, To Rococo Rot, Jim O’ Rourke, Rei Harakami, Taylor Deupree, Tortoise and Atom Heart. The TENORI-ON is one of the most innovative and exciting new instruments to be released by Yamaha for many years.

The launch event will see inventor Toshio Iwai talk and answer questions on the TENORI-ON plus live performances from a selection of artists lucky enough to be asked to road test this exciting new instrument.

Flying in from Berlin To Rococo Rot’s Robert Lippok will perform an exclusive UK set alongside cutting edge disco edit maestro Secondo (Dreck Records) and the man dubbed ‘the savior of acid house’ Capracara (Soul Jazz Records) + a DJ set from Duodecimo.

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Full Event Details:

Venue: Vinyl Factory below Phonica Records, 51 Poland Street, London, W1F, 7RJ (please use main shop entrance).

Time: 18.00 ” 23.00

Free Entry ” Please arrive early to avoid disappointment!

References: http://www.tenori-on.co.uk, http://www.global.yamaha.com/tenori-on /

Ableton introduces Live 6 LE

Posted by admin on August 29th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

cell phoneOf the dozens of music-production software titles currently available, Ableton Live is unique. With its roots in live performance, it presents the user with a fluid, flexible interface that often makes it feel more musical instrument than recording studio. Still, version 5 excelled at both performance and recording, with comprehensive MIDI/audio editing and mixing built around its live performance toolset. Version 6 continues in this vein, with a range of new features on top of an otherwise untouched user interface.

Ableton is proud to announce the release of Live 6 LE, a new member of the Ableton product line that makes Live’s unique, inspiring workflow available to beginning and hobbyist musicians. Built on the same fundamental concepts as Live 6, the LE version gives musicians hassle-free access to tools that will help shape their musical ideas into creative works.

Here is the principle behind each view:

Session View

 

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Live’s Session View acts as a musical sketch and launch pad, encouraging you to try out new ideas and improvise freely. Each cell in the Session View grid can hold a loop, recording, MIDI file, complete song or any other musical element. These ideas can be recorded on the fly or dragged in from the Browser, combined and played in any order you wish.

Arrangement View

 

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The Arrangement View offers a timeline-based approach for traditional recording, MIDI sequencing, arranging, editing and other musical production tasks. And when you improvise in the Session View, all of your actions can be recorded into the Arrangement View, where they can be edited and perfected whenever you like.

Features:

  • Studio-quality recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz
  • Sixty-four audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks per project
  • Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing for software instruments
  • More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative delays, filters, distortions, studio compressors and EQs*
  • Includes two software instruments”Simpler for creative sample-based synthesis, and Impulse for dynamic, sampled drums*
  • Supports VST and AU effects and instruments*
  • Real-time time-stretching and warping of AIFF, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 files for DJing and instant remixing
  • Tweak Live’s controls in real time with any MIDI controller”just MIDI-map it or choose from a list of popular supported controllers for instant mapping
  • Multicore and multiprocessor support
  • All editing of your musical creations is nondestructive, so you can experiment without worries
  • Single-screen user interface for simple, creativity-focused operation

Also Includes

  • Sampled Instruments: Essential Instruments Collection LE Edition by SONiVOX (boxed version only)
  • Loops and construction kits: Unnatural Selection by Puremagnetik (boxed version only)
  • A wide selection of presets for Live 6 LE’s instruments and effects
  • Extensive built-in step-by-step tutorials
  • Printed reference manual in English, Spanish, French, German or Japanese (boxed version only)
  • Localized software menus, tutorials, and PDF reference manuals available in English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese

* Live LE is limited to twelve simultaneous built-in audio effects, eight built-in instruments, two AU/VST effects and two AU/VST instruments per project.

References: http://www.ableton.com

Pioneer announced their latest DJ mixer, the “DJM-700″

Posted by admin on August 29th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

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Delivering breathtaking scope for creativity, consummate clarity and a world first in terms of its Effect Frequency Filter, the new DJM-700 is dramatically different. The 4-channel mixer inherits the sound quality of the DJM-800 and DJM-1000, it also includes some key features including MIDI connectivity, 49 assignables, cutting edge digital effects and a filter on pre-out so you can filter the effects.

Boasting 32-bit DSP [Digital Signal Processing] , 13 beat effects and enhanced roll sampler in what is an extremely familiar format for DJs, t his new kit on the block is definitely in a class of its own .

With an industry-standard size and layout and a dual shield structure that eliminates digital noise, the new DJM-700 is both robust and reliable.

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Setting a new industry standard for quality mid-market mixers, the DJM-700 allows DJs to transmit unique musical flows using a formidable range of features.

Designed to impress in bar, club and studio spaces alike the DJM-700 is set to have a wide appeal.

Here’s a brief overview of the main features:

96kHz/24-bit digital sampling system with 32-bit DSP for clean, supreme sound

The top-of-the-range 96kHz/24-bit digital sound is inherited from our world-class professional series, the DJM-1000 and DJM-800 mixers. This clean, supreme sound quality is maintained throughout the mix via an analogue to digital converter, with mixing carried out by 32-bit Digital Signal Processing.

Effect Frequency Filter opens new doors for expression

The Effect Frequency Filter (a world first) mode opens up killer high and low pass frequency filter control for affecting any chosen effect, so you can limit which frequency bands are subject to manipulation. This means you can add an effect to either:

  • the effect only,
  • the music (sample) only, or
  • both simultaneously.

Manual Filter facilitates a more intuitive performance

The DJM-700 features a high-grade rotary LP & HP Manual Filter. This allows both filtering of the track and, when used in conjunction with the effects, filtering of the effects themselves. The Manual Filter therefore presents countless possibilities to make a performance unique and to make a track your own.

Beat Effects and pitch adjustable Roll Sampler for live remixing

A highly evolved Roll Sampler makes tempo-specific manipulation of audio samples easily accessible through real-time sampling using 4-Roll Effects: roll, reverse roll, pitch up roll and pitch down roll.

There are also nine other effects: delay, echo, transform, filter, flanger, phaser, reverb, robot and crush. These effects can be used in infinite ways to manipulate sound in exciting new directions, with each effect permitting time parameter control of the musics movements.

The CRUSH effect that first appeared on the DJM-800 is included here but now with an added LFO that sweeps the bitcrusher through its full spectrum, always remaining locked to the beat.

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Fully Assignable MIDI Control

With 49 MIDI assignable knobs, faders & switches, the DJM-700 can be used to control external DJ software, soft synths and au/vst plugins running on a Mac or PC. Together with the new on/off MIDI send control, MIDI data can be turned on & off giving amazing control for the most demanding digital DJ.

Other Functions

  • Digital Output Terminal: Affords quality in connectivity by supporting 96 kHz/ 24-bit sampling rates; without degradation of sound quality.
  • Cross Fader Assign: Lets you easily assign channel inputs to the cross faders. The DJM-700 features ultra-precise channel faders, while an optional rotary kit is also available to suit mixing style.
  • 3-Band Equalizer: A super-sensitive three-band EQ system featuring rubberised knobs on each channel enables level control within a �”26db to +6db range for fine-tuning high, mid and low bands.
  • Fader Curve Adjust: Enables you to modify the cross fader/channel fader curve.
  • Talk Over: Lowers volume automatically so a DJ/MC can talk over the track.
  • Peak Level Meter: Allows you to examine the peak input level for each channel.
  • Fader Start: This allows the DJM-700’s cross fader or channel faders to control playback when connected up to a Pioneer CDJ player.

References: http://www.pioneer.eu/

See the Light

Posted by admin on August 28th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

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The song “See the Light” by Roland Clark and Steal Vybe gets a top remix by Tea Party label head Ian Friday. The remix is based on a smooth jazzy groove, featuring lovely piano and synth lines together with the well-known falsetto vocals by Roland Clark. Irresistible.

sample1 > Tea Party Instrumental

sample2 > Tea Party Main Mix

DeeperSoul Session 66

Posted by admin on August 28th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

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DJ: Mr. Mama

Affiliation: GarageFamily.net

Country: Italy

Listen / Download

Kerry Chandler - The Promise (Unreleased) Nrk records

Mr.Mama - Inside U (Dny Instrumental) cdr!?

Michael watford - accappella

The Super Phonics - Dial For Love (BahSonik mix)

Bobby & Steve - Time to (Zoo Groove)

Mr.Mama - Dope (Dny Dancin mix) cdr !??

Janet Jackson - Take Care (Daves’ Lalla’s Jersey)cdr

Cristal Re- Clear - i’m Dancin (Tony Records)

Abicha Soul - Diablo (Abicah Soul)

Kerry Chandler - Unreleased

Family (Voice)

Sleep in De Middle (Shelter vocal)

Soulgroove feat. Michael Watford - Faith (Soulgroove)

Camio

Posted by admin on August 28th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

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Lonewolf, a Toronto based Dj, promoter and producer, teams up with Camio Recordings for his first outing on the label unleashing “Big Tune”. The classic keys and subtle synth, together with the raw styled beats and uplifting vocals by Claude Bain, makes this song a celebration of underground house music.

Switzerland’s duo Panevino (Sandro Endrighetti & Renato Abate) are responsible for the remix, adding extra keys and piano over a funkish beat, taking the song to a different level.

Added to the release package as a bonus track, “Salama (Peace)” shows Lonewolf on a deeper vibe, using a throbbing bassline, some jazzy keys and dope synths.

sample1 > Original

sample2 > Panevino’s Jazzy-Jazz Remix

sample3 > Salama (Peace)

Won’t Give Up!

Posted by admin on August 28th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

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“Domu pres. Pete Simpson” is the brand spanking new project from East London’s soulful underground label Papa Records. The project is collaboration between two of the finest emerging talents from the UK in the shape of producer & broken beat hero Domu and UK soul vocalist Pete Simpson. “Won’t Give Up” is a bongo led & soulful affair that sees 2 lovely house remixes from label staples The Realm.

sample1 > The Realm vocal remix

sample2 > The Realm instrumental remix

sample3 > album mix

Groove Assassin

Posted by admin on August 28th, 2007 under Club Dance Music

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www.grooveassassin.com

> Toni Braxton - Take This Ring Gerald

> Levert - Wanna get up with u

> Rufus & Chaka - Stop on by

> Jill Scott & Mos Def - Love Rain

> Kelis - Till the Wheels fall off

> Angie Stone - Who’s 2 Blame