Think you know your stuff? If you can guess the FIVE tracks in this short mashup produced by DJ Nth, not only will we be mightily impressed, but you will also win some kit from the good people at DBM Labs. Check out some of their offerings below.

There are five loops from five classic tracks. If no-one gets it right each week, we will post a clue or two. Best of luck…

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Click here to submit your answer.

The first person with the correct answer will win! Judges’ decision is final. Email dancemusicblog[at]googlemail.com with any questions.

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I am not happy with the level of participation of DMb readers!  Sooo I thought what would everyone like to see and get involved with…?

Everyone wants to find those great new tunes, so I thought I’d show you a couple of my current favourites, in the hope that you all will comment and tell us the ones you can’t stop listening to at the moment.  There’s no prize for the best or anything, but hopefully you’ll find a couple of new tunes that you wouldn’t have otherwise. 

If it goes well then once a month or something we’ll repeat it and maybe review last month’s best tracks.

So, at the moment, I can’t stop listening to:

•  Day ‘N’ Nite (Crookers Remix)- Kid Cudi
• Saturate (Stanton Warriors Remix) – Chemical Brothers
• Prodigy - Breathe (David Guetta remix)
• Robin S vs Steve Angello & Laidback Luke- Show Me Love vs Be (Hardwell Bootleg)

Leave a comment with your favourites and lets see what happens!

Much dancing love - DMb

Once again, DMb has the pleasure of introducing another up-and-coming UK act;  Serotonin Thieves.

They have been picking up support from the likes of Fedde Le Grand, Shapeshifters, Damian Wilson (CR2), Lucien Foort, Danny Dove and Thommy Davis (Code Red).  On top of this, ‘Can U Tell Me’ was picked by Pete Tong for his Fast Trax show. After the show, the track was signed to his Bedroom Bedlam label & EMI Music Publishing.

Serotonin Thieves are Ryan King & Scott Blake, who have been making dance music together for the past 6 years, creating their own label called Steal the Love Records.  You can find some of their work on the net, including Coldplay and Kraftwerk reworks.  Check out their myspace here:

www.myspace.com/theserotoninthieves

They have just returned from playing in Sligo, Ireland, after recently DJing for Kidology Records in London & Ibiza.  They are also in the beginning stages of hosting their own night with Pete Tong’s ‘Future Stars’ the Bad Boy DJ’s at Herbal in Shoreditch, with their first gig down there on Sunday.

Early 2009 will see some of their new work released (for free!), so Dance Music blog will be keeping an eye out for these two in future… keep your eyes peeled!

Contact dancemusicblog@googlemail.com if you think you’ve got what it takes to get your creations featured here.

“The most important poll in dance music”

DJ magazine’s top 100 DJs poll 2008 is now three weeks away from closing, if you havent voted yet, click the link below…

http://top100djs.djmag.com/

Voters get a free track from Trackitdown and a digital copy of the mag as an incentive, so there is no excuse to not have your say.

You can vote for literally anyone (local DJ, favourite DJ etc..), and the poll is a 100% public vote, so the results show who really are the most popular DJs at the time.

Recent winners include Armin Van Buuren (2007), Paul van Dyk (2006, 2005) and Tiesto (2004, 2003, 2002).

The results will announced in London on 29th October.

After passing these guys at Global Gathering, I looked them up, listened to their work, spoke to them and thought that DMb readers should know all about them too…

JJ Metcalf and George Hilton, aka Vibrosis and Prof. Oblivion, won a Mixmag competition to open the Mixmag Terrace on the Friday, and their set proved that they were worthy winners!  The Buckinghamshire (UK) duo are based in London, and are hoping to play some more big stages in the not too distant future.  They play a wide range of styles, mixing some of the most unlikely tracks together – check out the Siegfried Android pages below to listen to some of them.

For Siegfried Android’s Global Gathering mix click here.  Leave a comment if you want the tracklisting for the mix – it’s too long post up.

Siegfried Android Myspace and Facebook pages:  www.facebook.com/pages/Siegfried-Android/10630644771  www.myspace.com/siegfriedandroid

Vibrosis told DMb:  “Global was unreal! Seriously, we were in Belgium when we got the call, had to take a week out of our trip to do it, was stressful was but well worth it. Apparently we nearly got disqualified because the mix we sent Mixmag overran by like 10 minutes.  The crowd were easily the biggest and best crowd we’ve played to so far - you guys just loved every bit of it!”

Ones to keep an eye out for in the future…

Think Dance Music blog readers would be interested in your work?  Get in touch at dancemusicblog@googlemail.com.

Amsterdam Dance Event

The Amsterdam Dance Event is now officially the biggest club festival in the world, with over 700 DJs playing in 40 different venues across Amsterdam. The total audience last year was 72,000, and this year there are an extra six venues.

A preview of the lineup has just been released, with all the big names playing, including: Armin Van Buuren, David Guetta, Erick Morillo, John Dahlbäck, Markus Schulz, Paul van Dyk, Sven Väth.

Ticket information isn’t available yet, but the festival is not far away, taking place on the 22/23/24/25th October. There are also a few ‘unplanned’ afterparties the night after for those that can handle it…

After a few months away, Dance Music blog (DMb) is back!

From now on, we want to get our readers contributing more, so if you know of any aspiring DJs wanting to get themselves some free exposure, great mixes that need to be shared with the world, or any interesting articles etc, send them to the following address:

dancemusicblog@googlemail.com

Subscribe to our RSS feed for updates on the new mixes we post, follow us on twitter.com (dancemusicblog) and get involved!

Keep an eye out for DJ Nth’s new mix to be posted up here soon…

DMb