Music download store Trackitdown.net team up with sample pack creators Prime Loops for Remix Addict! An exclusive download pack and remix competition that will see a winning track chosen by none other than MJ Cole, D. Ramirez and Crissy Criss.

The free Remix Addict download pack gives you 15 selected loops from the Addict Trilogy series that are completely royalty free, and can be used in all your projects and releases as well as the Remix Addict Competition. Any style of music can be submitted for the contest.

Winner to receive:
1 x Propellerheads Reason 4 & Propellerheads Record Music Software (Mac and Windows)
1 x IK Multimedia T-Racks Deluxe Mastering Bundle (Mac and Windows)
1 x 10 free Sample Packs from Prime Loops
1 x £100 Download Voucher from Trackitdown.net
1 x 12 Month Subscription for Computer Music Magazine
1 x Digital Music Distribution Package for 1 Track by Zimbalam & Believe Digital

Plus a huge range of merchandise from Prime Loops, Trackitdown and your favourite labels and artists.

The judges will be looking out for: no clashing keys and notes, perfect beat syncing, good track structure, the appearance of a hook line (either lead synth, bass or vocals), clean and well balanced mix down, intelligent editing of loops and of course, something that represents your production style – whatever the genre! Additional use of royalty free samples and original sounds are encouraged but submissions featuring uncleared copyrighted material will not be accepted.

Get the Sample Pack

Contest ends June 1, 2010.

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We have a couple of passes for one lucky reader in the UK who wants to attend a night at Together. Just post in the comments and we will randomly choose one reader next week to receive the passes.

Together Season One kicks off on Friday 12th March for a series of events at the Coronet Theatre with an amazing lineup over the next few months.

Full Info on Together:

Together Season One – The Launch Party from Lock N Load Events

TOGETHER SEASON ONE / WEEK ONE: THE LAUNCH PARTY
Friday March 12, 2010
The Coronet, Elephant & Castle
London

ROOM 1:
Mylo (DJ set)
Sub Focus
Zombie Nation [Live]
Crystal Fighters [Live]
Doorly
Rory Phillips (Durrr)
Men In Masks

ROOM 2: FACT MAGAZINE
Kode9
Mosca
R1 Ryders
Deep Teknologi
FACT DJs

ROOM 3:
O.Children [Live]
My Tiger, My Timing [Live]
Lunar Youth [Live]
Union DJs
Ben Gomori (Data Transmission)

For the launch we welcome three of the finest purveyors of electronic music in its different guises; Mylo, Sub Focus and Zombie Nation (live). Further live music in the main room comes courtesy of the brilliant Crystal Fighters, with additional support from Ibiza Rock’s Doorly, Durrr’s head honcho Rory Phillips and Men In Masks. Super cool music website and all round trendsetters FACT host room 2 with very special guest Kode9 alongside Mosca, R1 Ryders and Deep Teknologi, whilst room 3 also sees live performances from three acts you are going to be hearing a lot from in the coming months; O.Children, My Tiger My Timing and Lunar Youth. Add to this monstrous lineup London’s no.1 student DJs, the Union DJs and Data Transmission’s Ben Gomori, and we have on our hands a true statement of intent of what should be expected from Together Season One.

COMING SOON TO TOGETHER…
Together Season One will encompass a melting pot of sounds including the biggest and best DJs and up-and-coming live bands in the alternative electronic scene. The lineups for the first eight weeks have now been revealed with highlights including (deep breath!); Mylo, Sub Focus, Zombie Nation (Live), Kode9, The Bloody Beetroots (Live), Does It Offend You Yeah? (Live), Hervé, Kissy Sell Out, Reverend & The Makers (Live), Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw, Daisy Dares You [Live], Mumford & Sons Barn Dance, Ms Dynamite (Live), Joker, Plastician, Roni Size, Rob da Bank, Kano, Mala (Digital Mystikz), Loefah, 2562, Boy 8-Bit, Toddla T, D.I.M., Cassius, Uffie [Live], Kavinsky, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool [Live], Holy Ghost!, Felix da Housecat and Digitialism [Live]!!

Full Lineups and More Information:
Together Club Website
Lock n Load Events
The Coronet

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With over 3000 entries in the NGDJ competition spanning 3 months and garnering almost 200,000 votes the winner was just announced. Congrats to May Vanya from New Zealand via Coatia. The winner was chosen based on not only mixing and track selection but also music production, visual presentation and general artist potential. It seems like the 3 winners definitely lean more towards a deeper housey kinda vibe. Hopefully next year we can see a bit more genre variety with the winners.

According to the jury, Croatian sister duo Maya Vanya “are intriguing in a ’what‘s next?‘ way” and “have proven themselves by mixing their own masterfully laid out edits” with “a big room friendly tech house sound ready for next generation dancefloors everywhere.”

You can check out Maya Vanya’s winning mix here.

NGDJ runner-ups, including Jeremy G and Adeline Supreme.

via: LetsMix

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Go Remix

Talenthouse also has a contest to work with Ryan Leslie who also happens to be a Harvard Graduate. I hadn’t heard of him before but I checked out the YouTube video below and was impressed by this guy’s talent. He is kinda cheesy dancing around but that’s probably because he has a camera on him and his music kinda sounds like Trance from 1995. This contest is to make a video of yourself creating a new track and to upload it. The winner will work with Ryan in the studio and get credit on a track. Be sure to post a link in the comments if you submit a video.

Check out the video below and then head over to TalentHouse and Get Recording

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UK super-club brand Godskitchen kick starts the year with Pure Trance Classics, a must-have collection for fans and clubbers alike. Spread over three CD’s, Pure Trance Classics is the definition of real trance anthems for the loyal clubbing generation, bringing together a huge selection of exclusive tracks and mixes that have not featured on other albums including HUGE tunes from Tiësto, Armin, Paul van Dyk and Ferry Corsten plus future classics from the likes of Sander van Doorn, Marco V, Deadmau5 and Above & Beyond.

We have 3 copies of this triple CD set to giveaway to 3 readers. Just post in the comments and the winners will be chosen randomly next week. You will be notified if you are selected.

You can also pick up a copy of Godskitchen: Pure Trance Classics at Amazon.

Full Tracklisting:

CD1
01. Deadmau5 & Kaskade – I Remember
02. Andain – Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Unplugged Mix)
03. Reflekt ft. Delline Bass – Need To Feel Loved
04. Niels van Gogh – Pulverturm (Tomcraft Remix)
05. B.B.E – Seven Days And One Week
06. Veracocha – Carte Blanche
07. B.T. – Flaming June (BT & PVD Mix)
08. Aurora – Ordinary World
09. Dogzilla – Without You
10. Darude – Sandstorm
11. Filo & Peri ft. Eric Lumiere – Anthem
12. Cygnus X – Superstring (Rank 1 Remix)
13. System F – Out Of The Blue
14. Bobina – Invisible Touch (Ferry Corsten’s Touch)
15. Goldenscan – Sunrise (Tiësto Remix)
16. Armin van Buuren – Communication Part 3            
17. Matt Darey ft. Marcella Woods – Beautiful
18. Brainbug – Nightmare (Sinister Strings Mix)
19. Faithless  - Salva Me

CD2
01. Paul van Dyk – For An Angel (E-Werk Club Mix)
02. 4 Strings – Into the Night
03. Above & Beyond. – Alone Tonight
04. Signum ft. Scott Mac – Coming On Strong
05. Push – Universal Nation
06. Jones & Stephenson – The First Rebirth (Airwave Remix)
07. Rank 1 – Breathing (Airwave)
08. Blank & Jones – Cream
09. Yahel & Eyal Barkan– Voyage (Magikal Remake)
10. Lost Witness – Happiness Happening (Lange Remix)
11. Ratty – Sunrise
12. Binary Finary – 1998 (Paul Van Dyk Remix)
13. Members of Mayday – 10 in 01
14. Ferry Corsten – Rock Your Body Rock
15. Tiësto – Lethal Industry
16. Sander van Doorn – Riff
17. Marco V – c:\del.*mp3
18. Cosmic Gate – Fire Wire
19. Mauro Picotto – Lizard (Megavoices Mix)

CD3
01. Age Of Love – The Age Of Love (Jam & Spoon Watch Out for Stella Remix)
02. Y-Traxx – Mystery Land (Sickboy Courtyard Remix)
03. Vincent de Moor – Fly Away
04. The Thrillseekers – Synaesthesia (En-Motion Remix)
05. Barthezz – On The Move (Riva Remix)
06. Solar Stone – Seven Cities (Solar Stone’s Atlantis Mix)
07. PPK  - ResuRection
08. Salt Tank – Eugina (Reactivation Mix)
09. DJ Sakin & Friends – Protect Your Mind (For The Love Of A Princess) (Lange Remix)
10. Travel – Bulgarian (Signum Remix)
11. Nalin & Kane – Open Your Eyes (The Child You Are)
12. Three Drives On A Vinyl – Sunset on Ibiza
13. Riva – Stringer
14. SuReal – You Take My Breath Away (Lange Mix)
15. John O’ Callaghan ft. Audrey Gallagher – Big Sky (Agnelli & Nelson Remix)
16. Storm – Storm
17. Marmion – Schöneberg
18. Ayla – Ayla (DJ Taucher Remix)
19. Tony De Vit – The Dawn

For More Info Visit:

www.godskitchen.com
www.newstatemusic.com

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TRACKLISTING
01. Nervous Disco Dolly’s – “Get Up Everybody (Starkillers Mix)”
02. Seductive – “Underground Sound”
03. Robbie Rivera feat Rooster & Peralta – “Move Move (DJ Observer & Daniel Heathcliff Mix)”
04. Tom Stephan- “Turn That Shit Up”
05. Rishi Romero – “African Forest (Original Mix)”
06. Tom Stephan & Pete Gleadall – “Lights Out feat Rowetta”
07. Tommyboy – “Kamavtu (Rene Amesz Mix)”
08. Benny Royal – “Back to Basic”
09. Afrojack – “Polkadots”
10. Christian Arango – “Body Shake”
11. SpiritMindster – “Furious Night (DJ Dextro Mix)”
12. Deka & Dave Rose – “Lose Control (DJ Chus Iberican Mix)”
13. Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano – “Pondo (Chuckie & Silvio Ecomo Mix)”
14. Major Lazer – “Keep It Going Louder (Tom Stephan Harder Mix)”
15. Larry Tee ft Roxy Cottontail – “Let’s Make Nasty (Afrojack Mix)”
16. Rico Tubbs – “Born to Bounce (Mikix The Cat Mix)”
17. Bingo Players – “Get Up (Diplo Mix)”
18. Tom Stephan – “Turn That Shit Up (Diplo Mix)”
19. Oscar G feat Tamara Wallace – “What You Need (Tom Stephan Mix)”

Tom’s new CD releases on December 29th on Nervous Records. Special thanks to Rephlektor Inkorporated for hooking this up!

TomStephan.com
NervousNYC.com
RephlektorInk.com

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I have very fond memories of watching Eat Static perform live for an L.A. massive many years ago and was blown away when a four legged mech thing came out onto stage with them. It was quite the amazing performance, but scouring Google images I was unable to find any photos of the above mentioned mech leaving me to believe it was all a figment of my imagination. If anyone else saw this please let me know, I would love to know I’m not losing my mind.

So we just found out Laptoprockers have announced a Remix Contest with Psytrance pioneers Eat Static. Winners grab some plugins and the top remix to be released by Eat Static!!

Featuring a drum & bass track, a rock ballad and a synth-pop song in previous remix contests, this time Laptoprockers have joined forces with pioneers of psytrance ‘Eat Static’ to offer remixers two great tracks to play around with. ‘Sin Quest’ is an upbeat dance track with a classic psytrance feel, while ‘Up Periscope’ explores the more downtempo psychedelic avenues. The tracks are off Eat Static’s two most recent albums, De-Classified and Back To Earth.

“Both tracks unmistakeably carry Eat Static’s signature sound and make up for great remix material,” Laptoprockers said. “And as it is the first time Eat Static source material is available from the Internet in a remix contest, this unique opportunity caters for something extra. We’ll have winners for each remix track, and the best overall remix will get a very special bonus.”

As on earlier occasions, Laptoprockers offer a generous prize pool for this remix contest. LinPlug donated six of their best plug-in synthesizers for you to win! “Three prizes for each remix track is only adequate,” LinPlug commented on their contribution, “so each track will have three separate winners.” Prizes include LinPlug’s all in one drum solution RMV, their sample mangling plug-in ChronoX, and FM Synth Octopus and represent over $900 total value.

But there’s more at stake! The icing on the cake comes with a bonus for the best remixer overall. “We definitely will be able to release the best remix,” Eat Static’s Merv Pepler revealed, “we have several options in the coming months for that.” Need say more?

Laptoprockers is a webzine about making music digitally and related topics, featuring daily news and interviews. This is their fourth remix contest.

via: Laptoprockers

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Erick Morillo interviewed Steve Angello, sent it our way to pass on to our readers, and is giving us 3 copies of Steve’s new double mix CD to give away to our US readers (sorry rest of the world we’ll try to make it up to you.) So drop us a comment and tell us where you’re writing from and we’ll do a drawing 24 hours from now for the 3 double packs. We’ve also got a audio player below the interview so you can preview the mixes.

Erick, take it away…

When you first started out did you wish you could be Erick Morillo?

Erick’s a big inspiration for a lot of DJ’s, you can see a little bit of him in everyone from David Guetta to us and to anybody. I think he’s a really big inspiration to house DJ’s.

At what point in your career did think ‘This is it, I’ve made it!’?

I still don’t think I’ve made it yet. There’s still so much more you can do and you can always achieve and accomplish more than what you’ve done. So I’m still waiting for that moment.

Tell me about your passions outside of music.

I’m definitely into cars and watches and food! I have 5 cars, 11 or 12 watches.

What’s the difference in your sound when you’re playing a stadium to when you’re playing an underground club?

When you play a stadium you can play the bigger music, you can drop the classics such as The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers and you can do boot-legs and mash ups. I think when you play clubs you can go a lot more intimate and sexy and more bass-line based, more so than you can do at festivals.

Describe the style of your set.

The style I like is to go up and down and left to right with the music and I just try and make the people enjoy themselves and I think the way to do that various from different clubs and different cities and different parts of the world. In South America you have a certain sound, the same goes for America. I think in Europe you have to be more picky because the dance music culture has been there for a much longer time so I think the crowds in Europe are more educated than other places.

What’s this thing with Pharrell? Why are the big Hip Hop stars looking to top European DJ’s all of a sudden?

I think America has recently seen just how good dance music is. There’s a lot of energy in it with a lot of people having a good time. Me and Sebastian worked with Pharrell, and I worked with him again after that and I think they are trying to explore new genres to get involved in because everybody gets bored of doing whatever they do. So as much as they come to us, we’d like to work with them because they give us something that we don’t have and vice-versa.

Who would be your ultimate pop/rock hook-up?

I don’t set goals on artists. Madonna would be an achievement but there’s so many big acts around that you just have to find the one that fits you rather than just going for the biggest ones.

What is it about the Subliminal sound that you’re so attracted to? What have they got right?

Subliminal has been a label that, since we started DJ-ing, had the biggest output of music that we actually liked. It’s had a big impact on us as DJ’s because when we started out all the big records were subliminal records with Erick and Harry Choo Choo Romero and Jose Nunez, so I think Subliminal has a big impact on house DJ’s career’s rather than the sound.

Can you outline some of the labels and tracks that have inspired you over the years?

I get inspired from everything from techno to RnB to rock, so it’s a very broad spectrum that we’re looking at. I think that the tracks that we’ve done such as ‘Leave The World Behind’ and ‘Show Me Love’ inspires me for my next record because they’ve been such a big success.

You’re about to release a new mix compilation on Subliminal. Tell us about it and its vibe.

The vibe of the mix is pretty much what I do – I take a 7 hour set and squeeze it down to CD’s. It’s like my business card to the scene and I’m just showing what I’m doing. I think it’s pretty much like my set in a club but obviously a shorter version that fits onto a CD.

What tracks and producers can you tell us about that feature on the mix and are any of these guys inspiring you at the moment?

I get inspired by a lot of people and Dirty South is one of my boys from Australia and then we have Joris Voorn, Cirez D is on there (the compilation) which is Eric Prydz and I’ve got some stuff on there. I get inspired at certain times by artists, I just tend to move on all the time and at this point these guys are inspiring me.

Are there any exclusive tracks on the compilation?
Yes we’ve got Gel Abril’s ‘Marir’ which is an exclusive and we’ve got my track ‘Tivoli’ which is also an exclusive. There’s another one of my tracks called ‘La Candela Viva’ which is exclusive. So yeah lots of exclusives!

You’re playing with the Swedish House Mafia this November in the Brixton Academy. What’s so special about this?

The biggest achievement with the Brixton show is that we’re actually doing it. The fact that the Swedish House mafia have managed to sell out a concert in England is a big achievement. It’s going to be fun to do and we are going to give the crowd something they won’t forget.

You are the Chief A&R guy at ‘Size’ Records. What records do you think have put the label on the map and what can we look forward to in 2010?

We’ve got a lot stuff coming out – my little brother Anton, myself, there’s also tracks from Kim Fai and a track from Christian Smith. There’s a lot of good stuff coming out right now.

I’m assuming you’ve seen the new CDJ that’s coming out in November, and I know that you’re one of the DJ’s who have resisted from leaving using CD’s. Do you think it’s only a matter of time before you start to use the computer based software?

I think you can still play the CD’s and I like the fact of having a CD because I don’t want to have to pull up a screen and find the track, but the thing with this new CDJ is that you can connect a little device to it and that then this links to all of the players. It has a big screen and it’s very good and you can just scroll down and you can do folders in itunes.

It gives you more than just a CD, you can prepare a whole set and you can prepare loops, you can set cue and loop points etc… I think the CD is going to disappear but it’s going to take a while because guys like me are still going to stick around with a case.

What is it about tattoos that you really like?

I love tattoos. Its art. Sometimes I regret ones that I’ve had done but others I don’t ha!

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Astralwerk sent us some free copies of their SlotMusic compilation featuring: Royksopp, Bat for Lashes, Digitalism, Hot Chip, The Kooks, and more.

We’re giving away free copies of the compilation on a SlotMusic MicroSD card to the first four people to send us an email listing 3 other Astralwerks artists other than the ones listed above. Send an email to contests@dancemusicblog.com

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Cr2 Records first launched there LIVE & DIRECT compilation series at the tail end of 2007. The series started with a bang, featuring a head-to-head electro house battle between Dirty South & Kurd Maverick. Having said that, the series reached new heights with the Miami 2008 Compilation, which was extremely well received and leaped straight to the top of the charts. This was no mean feat considering the competition, which included the mainstay brands such as Azuli, Ministry of Sound and Defected.
 
Cr2 Miami 2009 follows on exactly where the 2008 edition left us…hanging on for one more tune! The compilation again offers 3 CD’s, with the theme across the CD’s spanning CD1-Day / CD2-Night and CD3-Classics. This combination seems to really work enabling the label to cover the broad spectrum of music they release.
 
The compilation features a massive 47 tracks, of which 20 are exclusive to Cr2! Featuring upfront cuts from DJ Sneak vs Herve, Mark Brown, Harry Choo Choo Romero & Jose Nunez… plus ‘Love Emergency’ the huge new single from Kurd Maverick Feat. Sam Obernik.
 
The Album is available for download now and will be out physically Monday 16th March as mixed and unmixed CD’s. There are also 3 x 12” vinyl Samplers.

Check it out here.

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