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For Beatport’s next remix contest, we take things higher – Above & Beyond, to be precise. The Anjunabeats founders are offering up the parts to their song, “You Got To Go,” featured on their recent album Group Therapy. Featuring the voice of Zoë Johnston, it’s an uplifting anthem that showcases the group’s unfailingly transcendent touch, and it ought to offer a wealth of inspiration for remixer

Beatportal Interview:

DJs were confined to the turntable for a quarter of a century. They were slaves to the music. Rhythmically matching two records together was all they could do to help people dance. Then technology set them free.

CD players with loop functionality, FX units, and sophisticated mixers all helped DJs to seize control of the music in the 1990s. Software was the next phase and it is changing the very meaning of the word ‘DJ’.

Dutch producer and DJ Joris Voorn has embraced technology. His ‘Balance 14’ mix CD, released in February, saw Voorn mix over 100 tracks across two CDs, with each different track a layered construction of three or four different songs.

With mixing in parts (or molecular mixing) becoming more and more common, Beatportal decided to meet Joris Voorn to find out his opinion about what is the definition of a DJ today.
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