Feb
22
2010
0

Lucent L’amour 2010 – A Visionary Love Festival

hrine's shrine at the Shrine
Photo courtesy of SinningInLA.com

The Do-Lab crew know how to set a mood: trademark organic structures, well lit environment, indoor and outdoor stages, happy people doing things to help good causes, top-notch artwork in every direction you look… oh ya, and big name dance music acts pushing some serious sound. This year’s annual Lucent L’amour event in honor of Valentines Day, was a perfect example of this. If you weren’t outside taking in the live avante garde dance performances or live art, you were treated to this years headliners: N.A.S.A., Bassnectar and Stanton Warriors (in order of appearance) on the multi screened main stage inside. (more…)

Feb
02
2010
2

Karaoke Channel Takes it Online

As a disclaimer, if you ever get the chance to hear me sing karaoke take cover. While I don’t exactly have the voice of an angel I do enjoy watching others karaoke. When friends get together and have a few drinks it sometimes turns into a karaoke all-nighter. I recently came across this karaoke website that does the whole karaoke thing online with a huge selection of new and classic songs to choose from. I was really impressed by design of the site and its ease of use and features. My favorite is being able to use your webcam to record performances and play them back.

Drop in and try it out for free.

Website: Karaoke Channel Online

Jan
28
2010
0

Wanna DJ at Coachella?

sweatshopmixer

Wanna DJ at Coachella? It’s simple, get some friends to generate power and you can spin a 30 minute DJ set. Read on…

From Green LA Girl:
You may remember Global Inheritance for its environmental theme park Environmentaland, public transit friendly concert series Public Displays of Affection, or its Re:cycled Tweets social media fundraiser. Thanks to the nonprofit, concertgoers have been able to get to Coachella by train, charge up cell phones with bicycle power and enjoy eco-themed art installations.

This year, Global Inheritance plans to make even more green noise at Coachella with the Sweat Shop, an initiative that gives eco-minded DJs a chance to spin on equipment juiced up by human power. Would-be DJs have to recruit a dozen friends to ride bikes and see-saws, turn hand cranks, and run on hamster wheels to power their music career, literally!

Have 12 friends ready to sweat it out at Coachella? Email sweatshopMIXER@globalinheritance.org with your website for consideration. If you’re chosen, you’ll need to reserve your spot with a $50 deposit — which will be refunded after you and your friends successfully power and perform your set.

via: Green Girl LA

Dec
08
2009
0

Above and Beyond into the Great Beyond

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British dance act serve up theme to SpaceShipTwo plus exclusive DJ set at launch event.

When Virgin Galactic were looking for some atmospheric music to herald the launch of their ground-breaking ‘SpaceShipTwo’ this week, they turned to the UK’s biggest DJs, Above & Beyond.

At an event hosted by Richard Branson in the Mojave Desert, the track chosen to accompany the official unveiling of SpaceShipTwo was Above & Beyond’s club anthem ‘Buzz’, which samples Buzz Aldrin’s original moon-landing dialogue. To mark the occasion, guests were also handed a special ‘Galactic Grooves’ USB wristband, featuring a selection of Above & Beyond’s songs.

After the unveiling and naming by governors Richardson and Schwarzenegger, Above & Beyond performed an exclusive DJ set in front of an audience of 800 dignitaries, celebrities and soon-to-be astronauts, plus the assembled global media.

Jono Grant from Above & Beyond said: “We’re big fans of all things space-related and so in terms of dream gigs, this is up there alongside our performance in Rio to 1million people. We’re now hoping to persuade Richard to let us DJ on the first Virgin Galactic passenger flight into space!”

Keep reading for the more plus YouTube video of “Buzz”. (more…)

Oct
13
2009
3

Steve Angello Interview and Giveaway

Steve Angello

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?

(more…)

Oct
11
2009
0

new Ableton Live hardware from Novation – LAUNCHPAD

Novation LAUNCHPAD for Ableton Live

Novation LAUNCHPAD for Ableton Live

Ableton and Novation have just announced a new hardware interface for LIVE, scheduled to ship in November 2009. The Novation Launchpad follows in the tradition of the Akai APC40, positioning itself as a dedicated controller for Ableton Live with buttons galore and a unique “mixer” mode providing visual feedback on channel levels. Up to 6 units can be chained and used at once, and like the APC it will also be able to be custom-programmed via the upcoming Max for Live. Take a gander at the project page and start saving your milk money!

http://www.ableton.com/launchpad

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Aug
04
2009
2

Top 100 Time Again

It’s that time again to vote for your favorite Trance DJ in DJ Mag’s top 100 DJs for 2009. I personally don’t have anything against Trance, in fact I play Trance sometimes, but it would be nice to see a non-Trance DJ win this thing for once. Anyone want to coordinate a DanceMusicBlog top 100 DJ list? Maybe come up with a proprietary algorithm that would take user votes and survey questions and magically come up with a list that took skill, track selection, and all that stuff into account. No? Eh, well it’ll just have to remain my fantasy.

2008 Winner – Armin van Buuren

From DJMag.com
Get involved in the most important poll in dance music – DJmag’s Top 100 DJs poll. Forget poor imitations, this is THE only poll that matters to DJs and promoters worldwide because it’s voted solely by YOU – the foot soldiers on the dancefloor.

Vote Now

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Feb
17
2009
2

Reason #148 why not to go to the bathroom when you dj.

Loo

Story taken from www.beatportal.com

Meanwhile, Troy Pierce gets locked in the loo
17 February, 2009 | 9.52AM

* Written by: Zack Rico

Here’s why you should never go to the toilet in the middle of a DJ set. Minus troublemaker Troy Pierce decided to sneak a leak whilst playing at the Beatport 5 Year Anniversary Tour party at Rex club in Paris recently.

After putting on a record, he scarpered to the nearest bathroom to do his business, but unfortunately for him, the door somehow locked behind him and wouldn’t open. Oh dear.

For almost an hour Troy Pierce was locked in the loo, and Konrad Black [a] had to take over control of the music to save the party.

In the end security heard Troy banging on the door, and despite their best efforts to unlock the door, they had no choice but to break it down, one punch at a time.

They smashed a hole in the door just wide enough for Troy to squeeze out of, and about one hour after he had gone missing, Mr. Pierce began his DJ set for the second time that night.

Dec
20
2008
0

Clues for DMb and DBM Labs Competition

A couple of weeks back we posted up our joint competition with DBM Labs, which so far has proven too hard so here are the first clues – artist names for each of the songs:

1. Jaydee
2. Dave Clarke
3. Plastikman
4. Robert Armani
5. Tetraflux

Have another listen to the mashup here:

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MP3: DMb Mashup

And if you think you’ve figured it out – click here to submit your answer.

A reminder that the winner gets a prize from the sponsors of the competition – DBM Labs. Prove you know your stuff, make sure we don’t need to post any more clues! Best of luck… DMb

Written by Mica in: General |
Nov
12
2008
2

Build a Rotary DJ Controller Out of an Old Hard Drive

Another cool instructable for turning an old hard drive into a rotary controller that can then be mapped to MIDI to contol some DJ software or some other bit of virtual gear. If anyone technically gifted enough to build one of these does so please post some photos and let us know how it works out.

Full instructions here.

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